Gustav Eduard Seydel

Gustav Eduard Seydel , also Eduard Seydel (born March 18, 1822 in Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ; † September 30, 1881 in Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony ), was a German-Luxembourg genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Seydel first studied at the Antwerp Academy . In 1843 he went to Düsseldorf , where he was taught by Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Rudolf Wiegmann at the Royal Prussian Art Academy until 1846 . Then he settled in Dresden. In 1847 he made his debut at the Dresden academic art exhibition. Seydel mainly painted genre motifs, later also landscapes . A self-portrait of him was acquired by the Königliche Gemäldegalerie in Dresden at the end of 1908 or beginning of 1909 or entered the collection as a bequest from Jean Libert Oury (1833-1908).

Works (selection)

Garden idyll

A good drink , 1848
Travelers and hay carts at a farmer's tavern , 1848
Pipe smoker , 1848
Village festival in the farmer's tavern , 1854
In the hunting lodge , 1856
Boredom , 1856
Peasants Resting in Front of a Farmhouse , 1862
Spring awakening , 1867
Mourning message from the battlefield in Bohemia 1866 , 1867, Galerie Neue Meister , Dresden
Forsthaus im Wald , 1872 (or 1876)
Garden idyll

literature

Seydel, Gustav Eduard. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 743-744 ( archive.org ).
Seydel, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 548 .

Web links

Commons : Gustav Eduard Seydel - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Eduard Seydel , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Eduard Gustav Seydel , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 440.
↑ Collections . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . New series, Volume 20, Issue 13, January 22, 1909, Col. 207 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
^ Karl Woermann : Catalog of the royal picture gallery in Dresden . Hoffmann, Dresden 1908, p. 250 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Seydel, Gustav Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seydel, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Luxembourg genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1881
Place of death	Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 440.

[2] Collections . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . New series, Volume 20, Issue 13, January 22, 1909, Col. 207 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).

[3] Karl Woermann : Catalog of the royal picture gallery in Dresden . Hoffmann, Dresden 1908, p. 250 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).