Mathilde Esch

Mathilde Esch: The five senses

Maria Mathilde Esch (born February 18, 1815 in Brno , Moravia , † May 2, 1904 in Munich ) was a genre painter .

Life

Her father was the German architect Josef Esch (1784-1854), who was chief construction director in Brno from 1835 . She studied in Prague with the history painter Joseph von Führich , in Vienna with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , in Munich with the game and hunting painter Moritz Müller , continued her education for a while in Düsseldorf and for several years in Paris .

After the death of her father, she settled in Vienna in 1854, where she preferred to paint pictures from German and Hungarian folk life until 1882, most of which, executed with delicacy and elegance, came into private ownership. Sometimes she also painted flowers and still lifes . Her work was exhibited in Vienna, Munich, Düsseldorf, Prague, Dresden, Klagenfurt and Brno, and in 1862 she took part in the thirteenth large exhibition of the Kunstverein in Bremen.

Mathilde Esch: Interior of Feldsberg Castle

Works

• Moravian farmhouse (1856)
• Market scene in Moravia (1856)
• Munich Girls in the Cemetery (1856)
• Landscape in Moravia (1857)
• Unexpected Return (1857)
• Girl with a Dog (1858)
• Fruit still life with a bunny (1861)
• Children with goat and chickens in front of a farmhouse (1862)
• The flower seller in front of the church (1863)
• The flower oracle (1864)
• Croatian noble bride (1880)
• View of Cesky Krumlov (1889)
• The Long Awaited Letter (1898)
• Gate and pulpit in Brno Cathedral
• Interior from the Princely Liechtenstein Castle Feldsberg
• Tankred baptizes Clorinda
• The five senses (oil on canvas, 95 × 116)

literature

• Constant von Wurzbach : Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria. Fourth part, Vienna 1858, p. 78 ( literature.at )
• Esch, Mathilde. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 161 f. ( retrobibliothek.de ).
• Esch, Mathilde. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 278 ( archive.org ).
• Yearbook of Fine Arts. German Yearbook Society, 1902, p. 145.
• Yearbook of Fine Arts. German Yearbook Society, 1903, p. 150.
• Wilhelm Schram : Esch, Mathilde . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 23 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins: Cyclopedia of painters and paintings. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913, p. 25.
• Esch Mathilde. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 267.
• IBN - Index bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum. 1973, p. 758.
• H. Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. 1974, p. 85.
• Heribert Sturm: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. 1974, p. 319.

Web links

Commons : Mathilde Esch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

1. ↑ Both dates according to information from the Munich City Archives by email on June 29, 2009 . Differing data to find the date of birth and place in literature: Wurzbach listed as birth here 18 January 1828 Thieme-Becker and many others give 18 January 1820; Klattau is given as the place of birth .
2. ^ H. Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century . 1974, p. 85
3. ↑ illustrated in Eva Lukášová: Zámecké interiéry - Pohledy do aristokratických sídel od časů renesance do doby první poloviny 19th století (Castle interiors - a look into aristocratic residences from the Renaissance to the middle of the 19th century). 2015, p. 162.