Hermann Sagstätter
Gottfried Hermann Sagstätter (* 1811 in Munich ; † December 25, 1883 there ) was a German painter. After first painting history and especially genre pictures , he mainly created church art.
Life and works
Sagstätter became an orphan at an early age, grew up in poverty and was supported by Peter von Cornelius . He graduated from an academy and exhibited his pictures from 1831. On November 10, 1845, in the parish church of St. Peter , he married the merchant's daughter Anna M. Fuchs from Württemberg , who, according to the ADB, later assisted him with painting.
In 1847 the parish church of the Holy Spirit in Munich was donated an eleven-foot high altar painting by Sagstätter, which showed Christ on the Mount of Olives. Another altarpiece from Sagstätters is in the church of St. Laurentius in Alteglofsheim . Sagstätter renovated this church in 1846/47. St. Stephan in Oberhaching received three altarpieces from Sagstätter in the years 1846 to 1849 when it was redesigned in the neo-Romanesque - neo-Gothic style. He designed four choir windows for Cologne Cathedral . Sagstätter was awarded the Ludwig Medal for Art and Science.
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Sagstätter, Gottfried Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 173-175.
- Sagstätter, Gottfried Heinrich . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 455 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dominant information 1811, the deviating information 1808 can be found in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ↑ Royal. Bayer. Polizey-Dir .: Royal Bavarian Police Gazette of Munich. Royal Bayer. Polizey-Dir., 1845, p. 1125 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ^ Rösl: Bavarian Landbot. Rösl, 1847, p. 169 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ St. Laurentius Alteglofsheim on www.kath-alteglofsheim.de
- ^ History on www.kath-alteglofsheim.de
- ↑ Church and Social Affairs on www.oberhaching.de
- ↑ Müller cites a Gottfried Heinrich Sagstätter and a Hermann Sagstätter; according to the editor's comment, this is the same person.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sagstätter, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sagstätter, Gottfried Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1883 |
| Place of death | Munich |