Gottfried Eckhardt
Gottfried Eckhardt (born March 9, 1865 in Düsseldorf ; † 1933 ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Eckhardt, presumably the son of the Düsseldorf portrait and genre painter Carl Peter Eckhardt , attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1879 to 1894 . There he was a student of Peter Janssen the Elder , Wilhelm Sohn , Hugo Crola and Heinrich Lauenstein . He served the latter for a while as a teaching assistant. Study trips took him to Italy , Switzerland , Munich and Belgium . Eckhardt worked in Düsseldorf , where he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .
The main areas of his work were history and church painting . He also emerged as a portrait painter . He created a winged altar for the imperial abbey of Echternach .
literature
- Eckhardt, Gottfried . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 326 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ See nos. 2905–2922 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ^ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1896 , p. 80
- ↑ Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on December 23, 2017
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Eckhardt, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1933 |