Oswald Gottfried

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Gustav Ludwig Oswald Gottfried (born March 27, 1869 in Leipzig , † August 19, 1949 in Munich ) was a German landscape and portrait painter .

Life

The eldest son of the businessman and owner of the Leipzig sugar factory Sachsenröder & Gottfried , Emil Gustav Gottfried and his wife Anna Melitta, née Zangenberg, attended the royal high school in his hometown from Easter 1880 to Easter 1887 . His father, who had to renounce art, made him an artist . The art academies of Leipzig , Weimar and Munich he settled for landscape and portrait painter train. He was a student of Leopold von Kalckreuth , Carl Frithjof Smith , Carl von Marr and Peter Halm . In 1901 he was represented for the first time with a forest landscape at the art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1908 three of his landscapes were shown at the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin . He became known as a painter of the Upper Bavarian lake and river landscape.

The portrait exhibition of the Leipziger Kunstverein in 1916 showed his portraits for the first time , some of which were also published in the magazine Jugend .

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: General Lexicon of the Visual Artists . Vol. 14, Leipzig 1921, p. 346.
  • Georg Hirth (Hrsg.): Three thousand art sheets of the Munich "youth". Selected from the years 1896-1909, with a list of biographical artists . Verlag der Jugend, Munich 1908, Fig. 968f.
  • Lorenz Josef Reitmeier: Dachau, the famous painter's place. Art and testimony from 1200 years of history, presented in twelve topics with additions to the trilogy "Dachau, Views from Twelve Centuries" and a Dachau artist list . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul W. List: Annual rings. From the life of a publisher , List, Munich 1982, p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Gottfried, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottfried, Gustav Ludwig Oswald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1949
Place of death Munich