Georg Maria Eckert

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Georg Maria Eckert, around 1880

Georg Maria Eckert (born September 17, 1828 in Heidelberg , † January 2, 1901 in Karlsruhe ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School as well as an art teacher , photographer , model maker and collector of traditional Baden costumes .

Life

Photo from the throne room of Bruchsal Castle , 1870

Thanks to his early recognized artistic talent, Eckert was awarded a scholarship to study painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy when he was 18 . When he was twenty he moved to Munich . From there he went on study trips to the Upper Bavarian region, Italy and Switzerland . Then he returned to Düsseldorf , where he attended Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class from 1850 to 1852 . He then worked as an art teacher and landscape painter in Heidelberg, where he married in 1858. From 1867 he dealt with photography . For landscape painters and architects in particular , he gave photo folders with landscape and architectural photos from Alsace-Lorraine (1871), from the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne, from the Black Forest and the Odenwald , from the palaces of Heidelberg , Bruchsal and Karlsruhe , and from the tombs of the Pforzheim Court Church and - on behalf of the Grand Duke of Baden - from the island of Mainau and from other Baden castles. In 1877 Eckert suffered great financial losses "through adverse circumstances" which forced him to give up photography. He moved to Karlsruhe and worked again as a landscape painter. His interest in folklore made him paint and collect traditional costumes. He also began to produce large models of houses and house complexes for the Grand Ducal Collection in Karlsruhe , including large Black Forest houses with their room furnishings, Black Forest sawmills with their rural surroundings, and a courtyard from the Odenwald. In 1890, by decree of the Grand Ducal Baden Ministry of Justice, Culture and Education, the directorate of the Grand Ducal Ancient Collections gave him the job of collecting Baden folk costumes. This assignment allowed him to undertake nine years of research trips through all parts of the Grand Duchy and preparatory work for the exhibition of traditional Baden costumes and rural household appliances. Eckert died of a stroke in 1901 without an exhibition being organized.

Works (selection)

Photo of the suite with bellboy, Watteau cabinet and bedroom in Bruchsal Castle, 1870
Photo of a city ​​gate of Strasbourg destroyed in the Franco-Prussian War , 1870

painting

  • Heidelberg in January 1850 , 1850
  • Schrozberg Castle , 1858
  • Alpine mountain lake , 1863
  • Ibbach sawmill near Petersthal, Black Forest , 1887

photography

  • The Bruchsal Castle in photographs , photo portfolio, Heidelberg 1871
  • That destroyed Strasbourg. Studies according to nature in photography , photo portfolio, Heidelberg 1871
  • with Julius Euting (text): Pictures from Alsace after nature , photo portfolio, Strasbourg 1875

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Eckert, Georg Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, photographer and collector of traditional Baden costumes
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1901
Place of death Karlsruhe