Hans Konrad Saffer
Hans Konrad Saffer (born October 16, 1860 in Bamberg ; † July 5, 1940 there ) was a German painter .
Life
Saffer trained as a graphic artist at the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt and then studied from 1880 to 1882 at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Alexander von Liezen-Mayer , Wilhelm Dürr and Martin Feuerstein . In the following years Saffer worked as a freelance painter in Munich. Here he mainly created naturalistic portraits of personalities from politics, church and industry. Again and again he created altarpieces in churches, including in Feldmoching , Fürth , Inzell , Niederachen , Oberkotzau , Ramsau am Inn and Troschenreuth . After the turn of the century, he increasingly turned to landscape paintings .
In 1915 Saffer moved back to his hometown Bamberg and worked there as a curator in the local history museum and in the picture gallery of the Michelsberg monastery .
literature
- Hans Konrad Saffer . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 308 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans Peter Bühler: Saffer, Hans Konrad . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century. Brockmann, Munich 1983, Volume 4 (Safes-Zwengauer), p. 7f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saffer, Hans Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1940 |
| Place of death | Bamberg |