Leopold Güterbock

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Leopold Güterbock (born August 20, 1817 in Berlin ; † March 19, 1881 there ) was a German genre and oriental painter .

Life

Leopold Güterbock came from a Jewish family from which numerous scholars and artists emerged. His older brother was the physician and general practitioner Ludwig Güterbock (1814–1895).

Leopold Güterbock studied from 1839 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1840 to 1850, accompanied by Alexius Geyer and William Cornwallis Cartwright, he traveled through Greece, Egypt and Turkey. From 1842 to 1847 he was in Rome , where he belonged to the German Artists' Association and played the role of "General of the Gendarmerie" at the "Cervarofest" of this association in 1845 and 1846. He lived in Paris from 1854 to 1858 at the latest. There he became a student of Thomas Couture and took part in the Paris Salon as part of the world exhibition in 1855 . Güterbock took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions several times from 1846 to 1880. From 1860 at the latest he was based in Berlin, where he worked as a painter. In 1862/1863 and 1873/1874 he lived again in Rome.

Works

  • Motif from the Fontainebleau forest , whereabouts unknown (BAA 1854, No. 188)
  • A Turkish girl with a cat , most recently: property of Queen Elisabeth of Prussia (ibid., No. 189)
  • Greek women from Smyrna , whereabouts unknown (ibid., No.191)
  • Female portrait , whereabouts unknown (ibid., No. 192)
  • A Turkish coffee house , whereabouts unknown (ibid., No. 193)

literature

  • Tino Mager and Jennifer Fischer-Falckenberg: Güterbock, Leopold. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Web links

Commons : Leopold Güterbock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 227
personal data
SURNAME Güterbock, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and oriental painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1881
Place of death Berlin