George von Hoesslin

George von Hoesslin

Honorary grave of the city of Augsburg for George von Hösslin, son and daughter-in-law

Georg Karl Balthasar von Hoeßlin (born March 20, 1851 in Budapest , † February 9, 1923 in Munich ) was a German painter.

Life

Georg von Hösslin came from an Augsburg patrician family . Georg, often also called George, was born in Budapest during a business trip of his parents (Theodor von Hößlin and Emilie née Heinzelmann). He grew up in the USA and was trained there as a businessman after Willem his father's.

In 1871 he went to Munich to become a U. Strahuber student at the Munich School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts . In essence, he continued to educate himself . Rome and Venice were his favorite places to study.

In 1884 he took up his permanent residence in Munich. Here he was inspired by Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger . His artistic activity, which he himself divides into three periods, he initiated in 1876 with the painting "Abandoned". In addition to history and allegories, he painted naturalistic landscapes , portraits . Much of his work went into private English and American ownership.

He was a member of the General German Art Cooperative .

Two children arose from his marriage to Elisabeth Merck: son Heinrich Balthasar , who was married to Emma von Hoesslin , and daughter Margarethe, who married Max Planck in 1911 . He was buried in the city of Augsburg's grave of honor in the Westfriedhof .

Works

• 1875: Abandoned , Roman landscape, exhibited in the arts and crafts exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace
• 1876: Cogoletto , also a Roman landscape
• 1879: 1517 , (age of the Reformation) the first character image of the American Ambassador Andrew Dickson White bought
• 1884: Adagio consolante
• 1884: Organ fantasy
• Main work: Laocoon

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  Organ Fantasy , 1884

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  Drawing in: Die Gartenlaube , 1985

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  Steep coast on the Gulf of Genoa , around 1890

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  Mountain slope near Monterosso al Mare , around 1890

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  Villa Spinola , around 1895

Other works, often reproduced by Franz Hanfstaengl and distributed worldwide through postcard printing:

• Pandora , from The Illustrated London News , Sept. 27, 1890.- 404
• Fame Crowning Art , from The Illustrated London News , Nov. 8, 1890, - 588:
• Villa Spinola , u. a. published in Der Türmer Heft 11, August 1907, double page 600
• A woman's magic , u. a. published in Der Türmer Heft 11, August 1907, p. 617
• The young Pan
• A castle in the air
• Vision of a world church
• Erring soul
• Mary, mother of love
• Mariae Divinatio
• The rocks of Medusa
• Villa Pagana
• Fascination
• The wisdom
• Pan

literature

• Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Leipzig and Berlin 1898, p. 314.
• Artur Dobsty: George von Hoeßlin . In: The tower keeper . May 1907, pp. 279-286 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• George von Hoesslin. In: The Art of Our Time. 21st year, delivery 7 April 1910, Hanfstaengl, Munich 1910.
• Hoesslin, George von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 223-224 .
• Heidi C. Ebertshäuser: Painting in the 19th Century. Munich School. Munich 1979, p. 209.
• Sonja von Baranow: Munich painter in the 19th century (= Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art ). Volume 2, pp. 203–204 (inter alia with illus. Of the signature).
• Hartmut von Hößlin: Hösslin. Data from 5 centuries. Wißner, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-89639-087-2 , pp. 40-43.

Web links

Commons : George von Hoesslin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arthur Dobsty: The Tower Keeper . 1907, pp. 279-286 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
2. ^ Entry in the matriculation database: Georg Hoesslin .