Karl Ludwig Seeger
Karl Ludwig Seeger (born July 15, 1808 in Alzey , Rhine-Hesse , † August 20, 1866 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter who was best known as a landscape painter .
Life
His bound letters are in the Darmstadt University and State Library . Seeger was initially a student of Louis Catoir (1792–1841) in Mainz and from 1826 with Carl Rottmann in Munich . In 1837 he became inspector at the Darmstadt Museum and head of the museum drawing school. He is also the author of the first museum catalog from 1843. Seeger is considered to be the discoverer of the Dachau moss as an artistic motif that was depicted by numerous painters from the Munich school . As an artist with a fine gift for observation, he was valued for the way he reproduced the atmospheric and was therefore also called Himmelseeger . Seeger was the first artistic teacher of the painter Rudolf Epp .
Works by Seeger can be found in the museums in Darmstadt , Mainz , Würzburg and numerous private collections. See also the painting View from the Castle Studio on the City Church (in Darmstadt), around 1841.
literature
- Fv Boetticher, Malerwerke d. 19th century, II / 2 (1901)
- Gisela Bergsträsser: Romantics paint the Odenwald. The discovery of a German landscape . Amorbach 1973.
- Catalog for the exhibition in the Burggrafiat of the city of Alzey. Kulturamt Stadtverwaltung Alzey, Alzey 1997, ISBN 3-87854-127-9 .
- Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum Giersch in Frankfurt / Main Magic of the moment - sketches and studies in oil , Frankfurt / Main 2009.
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| SURNAME | Seeger, Karl Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alzey |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1866 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |