Georg Sturm

Georg Sturm (born August 12, 1855 in Vienna , † March 16, 1923 in Wageningen ) was an Austrian decorative painter who worked in Amsterdam .

Life

Sturm was the son and student of the Viennese flower and decoration painter Friedrich Sturm , who had been teaching as a professor at the School of Applied Arts , now the University of Applied Arts , which was affiliated with the Museum of Art and Industry . Even Ferdinand Laufberger belonged there among his teachers. In 1882 he moved to the Netherlands and worked as a teacher at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam School of Applied Arts , today Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam . As a student of his father's, he executed numerous frescoes in public and private buildings in Amsterdam. For the outdoor area of the Rijksmuseum, he designed allegorical scenes from Dutch cultural history in faience . One of these was a scene in which the earliest inhabitants of Drenthe laid a megalithic tomb near Assen . But he also created portraits.

Publications (selection)

Figurative vignettes for the purposes of the arts and crafts industry . Self-published by the Ministry of Commerce, Vienna 1877, OCLC 1008425684 .
Animal life in the ornament . Jul. Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1895 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Sturm, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1880, p. 227 ( digital copy ).
Max Ditmar Henkel: Sturm, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 253 .
Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel: Sturm, Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon . Volume 14: Stulli Luca - Tůma Karel. 63. Delivery, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012, p. 14 ( biographien.ac.at ).
Rob Delvigne, Jan Jaap Heij: In de schaduw van Cuypers: Georg Sturm (1855–1923) monumentaal decorateur . Bekking & Blitz, Amersfoort 2017, ISBN 978-90-6109-521-7 (Dutch).

Web links

Commons : George Sturm - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Jan Albert Bakker: 1885: a wall painting of hunebed building, in Assen . In: Megalithic research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911: from "giant's beds" and "pillars of Hercules" to accurate investigations . Sidestone Press, Leiden 2010, pp. 170–172 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Sturm, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian decorative painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	March 16, 1923
Place of death	Wageningen

[1] Jan Albert Bakker: 1885: a wall painting of hunebed building, in Assen . In: Megalithic research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911: from "giant's beds" and "pillars of Hercules" to accurate investigations . Sidestone Press, Leiden 2010, pp. 170–172 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).