Michael Echter

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Michael Echter: Self-Portrait, 1842
Michael Echter: The Battle of Hungary on the Lechfeld 955

Michael Echter (born March 5, 1812 in Munich ; † February 4, 1879 there ) was a German history painter and since 1868 professor at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich.

Life

Echter was the son of a carpenter who worked in the Royal Silver Chamber and later as a castle administrator in Bamberg. He attended elementary school, where he learned the basics of drawing. On April 7, 1823 he enrolled in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he became a student of Heinrich Maria von Hess , Clemens von Zimmermann , Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Ferdinand Johann von Olivier . In 1835 he painted an altarpiece for the village church in Oberhaching near Munich and later another for the chapel on the Schlossberg near Rosenheim .

Schnorr drew Echter to his wall paintings in the Königsbau (→ Munich Residence ), and Leo von Klenze arranged for him commissions in Kronstadt and Pulkowa. In 1847 Echter accompanied Wilhelm von Kaulbach to Berlin to support him with the execution of the wall paintings in the stairwell of the Neues Museum .

In 1860 he completed the Battle of Hungary on the Lechfeld in 955 for the Maximilianeum in Munich , then the Treaty of Pavia on the outside of the Maximilianeum and Friedrich Rotbart's marriage to Beatrix of Burgundy and the funeral of Walther von der Vogelweide in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.

His most important works include paintings such as: Telegraphy and rail traffic in the departure hall of Munich Central Station . In the Theatinergang or Nibelungengang of the Munich Residence, Echter painted 30 murals from the saga of the Nibelungenring, and he also made numerous watercolors for King Ludwig II based on Wagner's operas .

Sickness and death

Grave of Michael Echter on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Since 1875 Echter, who was previously considered to be very healthy, suffered from an illness that made him almost unable to move. When he had recovered from this after a stay in a Swiss spa, he developed an eye disease that, despite several operations, finally left him blind. In addition, he was now plagued by a progressive stomach ailment that led to his death in 1879. His grave is on the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Grave field 27 - row 12 - place 2) location .

Honors

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 00824 Michael Echter . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 1: 1809-1841 . Munich 1841 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  2. ↑ Real, Michael . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 5, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1906, p.  352 .
  3. ↑ Real, Michael . In: Brockhaus Konversationslexikon . tape 5 : German Legion electrodiagnostics . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig / Berlin / Vienna 1894, p. 689 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
  4. ↑ Real, Michael . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 1 : Aachen – Fyt . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 383–384 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ A b c Hyacinth Holland :  Echter, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 250-254.
personal data
SURNAME Really, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1879
Place of death Munich