Leopold Günther-Schwerin
Leopold Karl Gustav Günther-Schwerin (born March 2, 1865 in Hamburg , † 1945 ) was a German landscape painter, sculptor and writer.
Life
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Evening in the Dolomites - the Geisler peaks , oil paintings
Günther-Schwerin studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf and as a student of Theodor Hagens from 1888 to 1893 at the art school in Weimar . From 1893 he was based in Wiesbaden . Günther-Schwerin was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and co-founder of the pension institution for artists .
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Leopold Günther-Schwerin was represented as a painter and sculptor at exhibitions in Berlin and Wiesbaden. He also published some stories in the fantastic magazine Der Orchideengarten . His novel The Kleptomane was republished in 2002.
literature
- Günther-Schwerin, Leopold Karl Gustav . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 208 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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SURNAME | Günther-Schwerin, Leopold |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Günther-Schwerin, Leopold Karl Gustav |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter, sculptor and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1865 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |