Josef Schretter

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Self-Portrait , 1906

Josef Schretter (born March 18, 1856 in Inzing , † March 18, 1909 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter who mainly created portraits and genre paintings .

Life

Josef Schretter was born in Inzing in 1856 as the son of the teacher, conductor and organist Peter Paul Schretter. In 1867 he began an apprenticeship with a wood carver in Thaur , which he broke off a year later to study at the applied arts school in Innsbruck , which was connected to the upper secondary school . In 1873 he became an assistant to the history and church painter Franz Plattner in Zirl . From 1874 to 1878 he attended the general painting school of Karl Mayer , Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger and the portrait school of Karl von Blaas at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . In 1878 he studied at the private school for history painting by Leopold Carl Müller . He passed the teaching examination for freehand drawing at secondary schools and returned to Tyrol in 1879, where he taught for two years as a drawing teacher at the kk Oberrealschule in Innsbruck. Between 1881 and 1885 he made several study trips to Italy ( Lake Garda , Milan , Florence , Rome , Naples , Capri ) and to Tunis , where he devoted himself to oriental painting.

From 1886 to 1891 Schretter worked as a portraitist in Munich , from 1891 he was based in Innsbruck, but traveled to Schwerin , Berlin and Düsseldorf for commissions . He portrayed numerous members of the German nobility and the Dutch, Danish and Russian courts. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Professor title in 1899.

In 1899 he married Anna Gaisberger, a hotelier daughter from Innsbruck, and the couple had two children. In 1907 he took over the studio of the painter Edmund von Wörndle in Innsbruck. In 1909 Josef Schretter died on his 53rd birthday after suffering from severe cancer. He was buried at Innsbruck's Westfriedhof .

Streets in Innsbruck- Pradl and Inzing were named after Josef Schretter .

Portrait of a Neapolitan rascal , 1893

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Schretter created numerous portraits of people from the nobility and the bourgeoisie. The portraits, initially in oil , later in pastel , are characterized by their light and color composition from his trips to Italy and Tunis. The Munich influence is evident in landscape painting, while his genre paintings, such as Tyrolean farmhouse parlors, are dominated by painterly realism .

Most of his works are in private hands, several paintings and sketches are kept in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum , in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere and in the State Museum Schwerin .

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personal data
SURNAME Schretter, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Inzing
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1909
Place of death innsbruck