Ludwig Seitz (painter)

Ludwig Seitz

Choir fresco in the French national church of Sant'Ivo dei Bretoni, Rome

Ludwig Seitz , also Ludovico Seitz (born June 11, 1844 in Rome , † September 11, 1908 in Albano Laziale ) was an Italian painter of German descent and director of the Vatican Galleries .

Live and act

He was the son of the Munich- born painter Alexander Maximilian Seitz (1811–1888) , who belonged to the Roman Nazarene circle, and his wife Gertrud geb. Platner, daughter of the diplomatic painter Ernst Zacharias Platner . King Ludwig I of Bavaria acted as his godfather. In 1877 Seitz was accepted as an honorary member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau .

Ludwig Seitz grew up under the Roman Nazarenes as a pupil of his father and Friedrich Overbeck , studied painting in Rome and later also learned from Peter von Cornelius . He became inspector in 1887 and director of the Pinacoteca Vaticana in 1894 . Seitz belonged to several Catholic artists' associations and created religious frescoes in particular , some of which can be attributed to the Nazarene style , but also to historicism . Overbeck described him as one of the most talented painters of the younger generation.

One of his most famous works are those commissioned by Pope Leo XIII. created ceiling frescoes in the Galleria dei Candelabri of the Apostolic Palace , which is now part of the Vatican Museums . Ludwig Seitz painted a. a. the French national church Sant'Ivo dei Bretoni in Rome, as well as the German chapel of the basilica of the Holy House in Loreto and, together with his father, the cathedral at Đakovo in Croatia.

The German national church in Rome, Santa Maria dell'Anima , also contains important works by Ludwig Seitz, including the chapel in honor of Saints Johannes Nepomuk and Johannes Sarkander and the painting of the ceiling in the nave.

One of his students was the Bavarian church painter Kaspar Schleibner (1863–1931). Pietro D'Achiardi was his successor at the Vatican Pinacoteca .

gallery

Frescoes in Kathedraleakovo Cathedral, Croatia
The ceiling frescoes of the Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican
"Faith and Science", ceiling fresco in the Galleria dei Candelabri
"Divine grace and human work", ceiling fresco in the Galleria dei Candelabri
“Unity of pagan and Christian art”, ceiling fresco in the Galleria dei Candelabri
“Victory through the Rosary in Lepanto”, ceiling fresco in the Galleria dei Candelabri
"Annunciation", fresco in the German Chapel of the Basilica of Loreto
“Adoration of the Magi”, fresco in the German Chapel of the Basilica of Loreto
“Adoration of the Magi” (detail), fresco in the German Chapel of the Basilica of Loreto
"Sankt Joseph", fresco in the German Chapel of the Basilica of Loreto

literature

Hyacinth Holland : Seitz, Alexander . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 655 f .; there also information on Ludwig Seitz

Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 9, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-11-096502-X , p. 389 (digital scan )
Matthias Michel: The German-Roman painter Ludwig Seitz (1844-1908) and his painting of the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel in S. Maria dell'anima in Rome , housework to obtain the academic degree of a Magister Artium, ( how to find it )
Dominik Bartmann : Anton von Werner : Jugenderinnerungen (1843-1870) , Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87157-165-2 , p. 416 (detail scan)

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Seitz (painter) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Giovanni Milanese: The wall paintings by Prof. Ludwig Seitz in the German chapel of the basilica in Loreto. Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln, 1909, p. 75; (Detail scan)
↑ Adolf Smitmans: Christian painting at the end of the 19th century: theory u. Critique , 1980, p. 170 u. 274, ISBN 3-88345-401-X ; (Detail scans)
^ Gisbert Knopp : S. Maria dell'Anima. The German National Church in Rome , Kühlen Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-87448-100-X , p. 80; 81 ( Google Books ).

↑ Axel Feuss: Johann Friedrich Overbeck and the Cathedral of Djakovo, Croatia. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, 1994, p. 19 ( (detail scan) ).

↑ Dragan Damjanovic: Nacionalne ideologije i umjetnost u 19. stoljeću na primjeru fresaka u apsidama đakovačke katedrale (National Ideologies and 19th Century Art on the Example of Frescoes in the Đakovo Cathedral Apses) . In: Društvena istraživanja (Social Research - Journal for General Social Issues), Vol. 18, No. 3 (101); pages 461-478 . ( academia.edu [accessed February 18, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Seitz, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seitz, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1908
Place of death	Albano Laziale

[1] Giovanni Milanese: The wall paintings by Prof. Ludwig Seitz in the German chapel of the basilica in Loreto. Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln, 1909, p. 75; (Detail scan)

[2] Adolf Smitmans: Christian painting at the end of the 19th century: theory u. Critique , 1980, p. 170 u. 274, ISBN 3-88345-401-X ; (Detail scans)

[3] Gisbert Knopp : S. Maria dell'Anima. The German National Church in Rome , Kühlen Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-87448-100-X , p. 80; 81 ( Google Books ).

[4] Axel Feuss: Johann Friedrich Overbeck and the Cathedral of Djakovo, Croatia. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, 1994, p. 19 ( (detail scan) ).

[5] Dragan Damjanovic: Nacionalne ideologije i umjetnost u 19. stoljeću na primjeru fresaka u apsidama đakovačke katedrale (National Ideologies and 19th Century Art on the Example of Frescoes in the Đakovo Cathedral Apses) . In: Društvena istraživanja (Social Research - Journal for General Social Issues), Vol. 18, No. 3 (101); pages 461-478 . ( academia.edu [accessed February 18, 2019]).