Gustav Adolf Schweitzer

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Gustav Adolf Schweitzer (born April 19, 1847 in Dessau , † 1914 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Fjord landscape (1888)

Schweitzer studied from 1866 to 1868 in the landscape class of Oswald Achenbach at the Düsseldorf Academy . His training was interrupted in 1870/71 by voluntary participation in the Franco-German War . Eugen Dücker and Albert Flamm were among his teachers from 1872 to 1875 . Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of his customers .

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Adolf Schweitzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Rudolf Theimann: The student lists the landscape explanation Assen from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
  2. See nos. 422–430 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 )