Johann Baptist Scherer
Johann Baptist Scherer (often Baptist Scherer , born March 15, 1869 in Hamburg-Altona , † January 22, 1910 in Kassel ) was a German painter and draftsman.
Life
Born the son of a tax council, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and from October 13, 1888 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich in the nature class with Gabriel von Hackl .
In 1896, Scherer made a drawing for the text "Nina Riviera or The Man with a Heavy Heart" by Donald Lenzelin Wedekind for the magazine Simplicissimus , he also illustrated books.
He spent the period from February 1896 to October 1898 in Neubeu Castle , where he left an entry in the guest book. He died at the age of 40.
Sea of flowers
Drawing for the text "Nina Riviera or The Man with a Heavy Heart" in Simplicissimus 1896
literature
- Scherer, Johann Baptist . 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. 34 .
- Munich painters in the 19th century Volume 4. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 24.
Web links
- Guestbook Castle Neubeuen
- Signature ( Memento from March 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- RKD
Individual evidence
- ↑ 00530 Baptist Scherer . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 3: 1884–1920 , 1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- ^ Simplicissimus. December 5, 1896, 1st volume, issue 36, p. 4 ( simplicissimus.info ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherer, Johann Baptist |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scherer, Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg-Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1910 |
| Place of death | kassel |