Peter Emil Recher

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Peter Emil Recher (born June 29, 1879 in Heilbronn ; † May 26, 1948 in Urfeld ) was a German lithographer and painter .

Life

From Recher are numerous landscape pictures influenced by Impressionism , which depict the alpine mountains of Switzerland and Bavaria .

Recher was born the son of a Swiss man and a woman from Baden. After graduating from school, he initially trained as a lithographer. From 1904 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

Study trips took him to numerous countries in Western and Southern Europe as well as North Africa. Eventually he settled in Lisbon . There he was appointed professor at the Escola Academica in 1910.

After three years, Recher returned to Germany and settled as a freelance painter in Urfeld am Walchensee. There he met Hermine Kellermann, the daughter of the academy professor and court pianist Berthold Kellermann . Both married on July 7, 1914. The couple lived in Munich from 1915 to 1919 and eventually moved to Feldbach on Lake Zurich.

literature

  • Recher, Peter Emil . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958.

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