Joseph Teltscher
Joseph Eduard Teltscher (born January 15, 1801 in Brno , † July 7, 1837 in Piraeus near Athens ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer .
Life
Teltscher was trained as a lithographer in Brno and Vienna . From 1823 he was a student at the Vienna Academy . He was one of the first and most outstanding portrait lithographers in Vienna des Biedermeier and had already dealt with this new technique before Josef Kriehuber .
Around 1830 he had a particularly fruitful and successful creative period in Graz . He was close to Franz Schubert and his circle of friends and created the most authentic portraits of the master. He also drew Ludwig van Beethoven on his death bed. As described in The World of Yesterday , these sheets were owned by Stefan Zweig and are now owned by the British Library .
In 1837 Teltscher drowned on a study trip in the port of Piraeus.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Teltscher, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 43. Part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1881, pp. 268–270 ( digitized version ).
- Teltscher, Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 513 .
- A. Nierhaus: Teltscher, Josef Eduard . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation . tape 14 , vol . 65: Télfy Iván - Töply Robert . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2014, p. 243 f ., doi : 10.1553 / 0x003110a5 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teltscher, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teltscher, Joseph Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno , Margraviate of Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1837 |
| Place of death | Piraeus , Greece |