Gustav Wittschas
Gustav Wittschas (* 1868 in Königsberg , † 1953 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape , genre , history and church painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Wittschas, son of the material manager at the Königsberg Ostbahnhof of the Prussian Eastern Railway , studied first at the Königsberg Art Academy with Carl Steffeck and Emil Neide and from 1894 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Peter Janssen the Elder and Arthur Kampf .
He became known as the painter of the Nida artists' colony for pictures of the Curonian Spit . He settled first in Kaiserswerth , then in Düsseldorf, where he had already received a position as "painter for flower drawing" at the Kunstgewerbeschule in the winter of 1897 and was a member of the Düsseldorf Artists' Association , in whose "artist studio house" he later moved owned a studio apartment .
Work (selection)
- 1904: Diorama of a Japanese garden. Horticultural Exhibition Düsseldorf 1904
- around 1910: Draft of the church window of the Kreuzkirche Düsseldorf-Pempelfort
- from 1913: painting of the Tecklenburg town church
- 1915: Panel painting of Emperor Friedrich I as a war nail painting
literature
- Wittschas, Gustav . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 144 .
Web links
- Gustav Wittschas. Auction results in the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, (PDF) )
- ↑ Material management. In: Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System. (zeno.org)
- ↑ station of the Eastern Railway, railway workshop buildings: Witt Shas, Materialverw. In: Address book of the capital and residence city of Königsberg i. Pr. And the suburbs 1872. ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
- ↑ Wittschas, Joh., Materials management. a. D., Bismarckstraße 8. In: Address book of the capital and residence city of Königsberg i. Pr. And the suburbs 1901. ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
- ↑ The painters of the Nidden artist colony , website in the portal kuenstlerkolonie-nidden.de , accessed on April 16, 2020.
- ↑ School of Applied Arts: The lessons in flower painting took over in winter 1897/98 Mr. Witt painter Shas. In: Report on the status and the administration of community affairs in the city for the period from April 1, 1897 to March 31, 1898. P. 77, ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
- ↑ Jürgen Wiener: The "Extinction of the Reform Thought"? Wilhelm Kreis and the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts. In: Jürgen Wiener: From the development of the region. Essays on modern architecture and history on the Rhine and Ruhr . Published by the working group for research into “Modernism in the Rhineland” e. V., transcript, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4951-2 , p. 79 (footnote 29, Google Books )
- ↑ Max Hesdörffer: From the horticultural exhibition in Dusseldorf. In: The month. Octave edition of the magazine Über Land und Meer . Born 1903/04, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1904, Volume 3, p. 155 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Thomas Roeb: Carl Wilhelm Schleicher 1857-1938. Life and work of an architect of historicism . Mainz, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-86130-818-5 , pp. 74, 226.
- ↑ Franz Josef Vogel: The "nailed" picture of the emperor. In: My Kaiserswerth. Issue 2, p. 44 f. (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittschas, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape, genre, history and church painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1953 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |