Gustav von Bechtolsheim (painter)

Gustav Freiherr von Bechtolsheim (born November 2, 1842 in Regensburg , † January 27, 1924 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Gustav von Bechtolsheim, actually Gustav Adam Maria Theodor Freiherr von Mauchenheim called Bechtolsheim, born in Regensburg, was the eldest of five children of the Royal Bavarian Ministerial Council of the Ministry of the Interior, Alexander Karl Freiherr von Mauchenheim called Bechtolsheim (* 1808, † 1852). In 1883 he married Countess Maria Deym (* 1857). His marriage had four children.

Gustav von Bechtolsheim: Überlingen / Bodensee view of the cathedral

Training and style

Initially (from 1871) von Bechtolsheim was a student at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Munich under the genre painter Karl Theodor von Piloty , who later became the most important representative of realistic history painting . Von Bechtolsheim later specialized in landscape and mood painting at the academy , influenced by his teacher Adolf Lier . His motifs come from southern Germany, its foothills, especially from Upper Bavaria. Atmospheric landscapes of the Chiemsee , the Starnberger See , the Inn and Isar valleys were created . Initially, his works were still shaped in the style of the Wilhelminian tradition, from the turn of the century his painterly depiction and the effect of his pictures on the viewer became more generous and thus crossed the threshold to impressionism .

literature

• Heidi C. Ebertshäuser: Painting in the 19th Century , Munich School, Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Munich 1979, p. 166, ISBN 3-87405-121-8
• Bruckmann's Lexikon der Münchner Kunst, Munich painters in the 19th century , first volume, Verlag F. Bruckmann KG, Munich 1981, p. 70 u. 71, ISBN 3-7654-1633-9

Web links

Commons : Gustav von Bechtolsheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Academy of Fine Arts Munich, matriculation database: http://matrikel.adbk.de/05older/mb_1841-1884/jahr_1871/matrikel-02644