Georg Wachter

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Portrait of Andreas Hofer, Braunschweig City Museum (1839/40)

Georg Wachter (born November 23, 1809 in Hall in Tirol , † December 18, 1863 in Bozen ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Georg Wachter was the third of the thirteen children of the saltworks room foreman Matthias Wachter and Katharina Schwaller. He attended two classes at the grammar school and was then apprenticed to a barrel painter. After the Innsbruck drawing school, Wachter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1828 to 1830 , but was torn from his training by being drafted into the military. He served for eight years and was stationed as a member of the Emperor Ferdinand's Jägerregiment in many Tyrolean and northern Italian garrisons , although he still did not give up drawing. After disarmament, Wachter worked for the Johann Kravogl lithographic establishment in Innsbruck.

In 1847 he went to Bozen as a painter, where he distinguished himself among the Tyrolean riflemen during the revolution of 1848/49 . In 1852 he married the twenty-one year old Theresia Silbernagl, the daughter of a wholesale merchant. Their two sons died in childhood. Wachter died a sought-after portraitist of the bourgeoisie and a respected man in Bolzano.

plant

Georg Wachter painted numerous Biedermeier genre pictures after his military service ; various unsigned landscapes and traditional costumes are attributed to him. In Bolzano he developed into a specialist in portraits , which he executed with great accuracy and very realistically and with which he had great success in the city. In the last years of his life he also dealt intensively with photography . Most of the pictures of Wachter are in private hands; many that were owned by the Silbernagl family in Bozen were destroyed in the Second World War. The Tyrolean Kaiserjägermuseum on Bergisel has several portraits of military people.

literature

  • Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat: Tyrol Lexicon . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-3-7065-4210-4 , p. 652.

Web links

Commons : Georg Wachter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Wachter, "Portrait of Anna Vinzentia Tschager née Silbernagl" , Bolzano City Museum
  2. ^ Bolzano City Museum
  3. ^ Bolzano City Museum
  4. ^ Georg Wachter , Digital Belvedere
personal data
SURNAME Wachter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall in Tirol
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1863
Place of death Bolzano