Paul Ritter the Younger

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Paul Ritter the Younger (born March 22, 1859 in Nuremberg ; † August 30, 1888 there ) was a German painter and etcher .

Life

Ritter was the eldest son of the Nuremberg architecture and history painter Lorenz Ritter . His uncle was the architectural painter Paul Ritter the Elder. Ä. . He studied at the Kgl. Kunstgewerbeschule Nürnberg and from 1882 printmaking and painting with Johann Leonhard Raab at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

He was married to Emma (nee Gudden, born January 19, 1865 † May 29, 1931 Munich), the daughter of Bernhard von Gudden . They had three children; one son was the architect and city planner Hubert Ritter (1886–1967), city architect in Leipzig. Ritter died at the age of only 29. The Gudden family's gravestone in Munich's Ostfriedhof commemorates his widow.

Ritter, his uncle Paul Ritter d. Ä., His father Lorenz Ritter and his brothers Wilhelm and Fritz are considered to be the keepers of the romantic Nuremberg townscape.

literature

  • Ritter, Paul the Younger. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 443 ( archive.org ).
  • Ritter, Paul the Younger . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 406 .
  • Ursula Kubach-Reutter (Ed.): Late Romanticism in the Industrial Age. The Nuremberg artist family Ritter. Exhibition catalog of the painting and sculpture collection of the museums of the city of Nuremberg in the Museum of Industrial Culture. Museums of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 2007.
  • StAN AdBK No. 181-185.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb: Ritter, Paul d. J. In: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . tape 3 : Pf-Z . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , p. 1243 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  2. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Ritter, Paul d. J. In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 75 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ 04174 Paul Ritter. In: Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book. Volume 2: 1841-1884. matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de .
  4. ↑ Ursula Kubach-Reutter (Ed.): Late Romanticism in the Industrial Age. The Nuremberg artist family Ritter. Nuremberg 2007, p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Paul the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1888
Place of death Nuremberg