Karl Albert von Schott

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Karl Albert von Schott (born May 13, 1840 in Stuttgart ; † February 21, 1911 there ) was a Württemberg officer and battle painter .

Life

Karl Albert Schott was born as the child of the landlord Eduard Saladin Schott (1812–1887) and his wife Maria Antonia Weyland (1816–1900). He had five siblings, including the Benedictine Anselm Schott (1843-1896) and the opera singer Anton Schott (1846-1913).

He served as an officer in the Württemberg Army and took part in the campaigns of 1866 and 1870/71 , most recently as a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander in infantry regiment No. 124 .

On October 24, 1877, Schott married Maria Anna Agnes Franck (1849–1911), daughter of the Grand Ducal Hessian State Councilor Heinrich von Franck in Darmstadt.

After retiring from the army, he took private painting lessons from Anton Braith in Munich from 1888 . As a painter he remained true to his original profession and mainly painted battle pictures.

Publications

  • Karl Schott: The share of the Württembergians in the 1870/71 campaign . Union, Stuttgart 1908

literature

  • State Gazette for Württemberg , 1911, p. 341.
  • Swabian Chronicle of Swabian Mercury , 1911, No. 88, p. 5.
  • Estate of Lieutenant Colonel Karl von Schott, battle painter Stuttgart. Paintings, watercolors, hand drawings and antiquities . Fleischhauer, Stuttgart 1911.
  • Max Schefold: Schott, Karl Albert von . 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. 267 .
  • Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon. From the baroque to the present . Art and Antiques, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-921811-36-8 , p. 109. 490–491 Figs. 887–888.

Remarks

  1. ^ Schott, Eduard Saladin. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Draft cover ( memento of August 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).

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personal data
SURNAME Schott, Karl Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schott, Karl Albert (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg officer and battle painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1911
Place of death Stuttgart