Gustav Conz

Gustav Conz, photo Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf

Summer day at the fountain . Oil on canvas . Signed and dated lower left: G. Conz, Düsseldorf 1860

View over Oberweiler to Baden Castle ( Badenweiler )

Gustav Heinrich Conz (born September 26, 1832 in Tübingen , † June 20, 1914 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and draftsman of the Düsseldorf School , drawing teacher and art historian .

life and work

Gustav Conz showed an inclination for art from an early age, but studied theology . During his studies in 1850 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity . When a severe illness (typhus) made it impossible for him to continue his studies, Conz turned to painting and attended the art school in Stuttgart , where Heinrich Funk and Bernhard Neher were his teachers. After studying for a few years in Munich and from 1858 to 1862 as a private student of Oswald Achenbach in Düsseldorf , he went to Italy and spent a year doing studies in Rome and the surrounding area. On October 28, 1862 he was introduced to the German Artists' Association there . Most of his pictures, sometimes mere vedute of meticulous detail, show views of Latin regions. These include, for example: the coast of Terracina , view of Ariccia , Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome , part near Olevano . Conz was a member of the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten . In 1865 Conz became a professor at the Königin-Katharina-Stift in Stuttgart . His son Walter Conz was born there in 1872 .

Conz, Gustav . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1891, Volume 1, p. 177.
Joseph August Beringer : Conz, Gustav . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 344 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 116–117.

Commons : Gustav Conz - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
↑ Thieme-Becker Volume VII, 1912, p. 344
↑ AKL Volume XXI, 1999, p. 39.
^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 130
↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on April 1, 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Conz, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conz, Gustav Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman, drawing teacher and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH	June 20, 1914
Place of death	Stuttgart