Gottfried Seelos

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Gottfried Seelos (born January 9, 1829 in Bozen , South Tyrol , † March 13, 1900 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

After basic studies at the universities of Verona and Innsbruck 1845–1847 and subsequent law studies 1847–51 in Vienna and Munich, Gottfried Seelos studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under the landscape painters Johann Novopacky and Joseph Selleny , whose sister Theresia he married in 1886. With Selleny and Novopacky he went on his first study trip to Italy in 1853/54, which was later followed by several more.

Gottfried Seelos received significant support from the Viennese industrialist, politician and patron Nikolaus Dumba , in whose Liezen country estate he regularly stayed in the summer and where the over portals of the music salon, including a view of Lake Wörthersee near Velden , came from him.

In 1930 Seelosgasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

Works

Color lithograph of the Kuntersweg near Bozen- Blumau , 1867

The focus of his work were landscape paintings from Northern Italy and Austria. In addition, Seelos created large wall paintings, for example the depictions of the battles of Kolin, Bergisel, Kahlenberg and Lissa for the Vienna Hofburg in 1885, and the paintings Stonehenge and Tumuli by Rosegg for the Natural History Museum in Vienna .

Seelos reproduced many of his landscape paintings in the form of lithographs in larger albums. In 1856/57 he published the Views of Tyrol as a series of lithographs , in 1857/58 the albums Weg nach Sarnthal , Welschenofener Strasse , the environs of Vienna (together with Novopacky) and views of the Styrian and Upper Austrian Salzkammergut . With his brother Ignaz Seelos (1827–1902), a pupil of Carl Rahl , he drew and lithographed the fresco cycle from “ Tristan and Isolde ” in the Runkelstein castle ruins near Bozen (Innsbruck, 1857, with text by Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle ).

Some of his later landscapes are distinguished by their fine mood and deep feeling

  • The Zenoburg near Meran, Kolman in Tirol (Academy in Vienna)
  • Sigismundskron near Bolzano
  • Motif from the Riviera near Mentone
  • Palm trees near Monaco
  • The summer afternoon (in the Belvedere in Vienna)
  • Vogelweidhof with staffage by Defregger, from the high valley Vajolet

The best of his pictures were taken in the 1860s. Later the coloring became too fantastic at times.

  • Schlern Mountains in the evening glow

Furthermore

  • Beach view from the Dalmatian coast (formerly Nelly and Bernhard Altmann)

literature

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Seelos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Seelos, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano , South Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1900
Place of death Vienna