Richard von Below (painter)
Richard von Below (born February 5, 1879 in Berlin ; † November 17, 1925 there ) was a German painter and illustrator.
Life
Richard von Below was the son of Lieutenant General z. B. and manor owner Gerd von Below and Luise geb. from Witzleben . After visiting the Victoria-Gymnasium Potsdam he studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Law . In 1899 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After graduating, he settled in Munich as a painter. Around 1910 he stayed in Paris to study painting and graphics with Maurice Utrillo . He then went on numerous trips with Alf Bachmann , including to Iceland and Egypt . A trip took him in 1913/1914 together with the orientalist Curt Prüfer (1881-1959) to Upper Egypt. He took part in the First World War as a soldier in Russia. On February 28, 1921 he married Eva-Maria von Zitzewitz; the marriage resulted in the daughter Frieda Veronika Klara Luise.
In 1922 he lived together with Olaf Gulbransson and Herbert von Richthofen for a while in house no. 1a in Schlattan near Partenkirchen .
Below stood out through numerous landscape etchings and illustrations for volumes of poetry.
Works
- Escape from Stallupönen , August 1914
- Battlefield at Mastki , Lowicz, December 1914
- Refugees , Carpathians, May 1915
- Etching portfolio Egyptian landscape (8 etchings), around 1920
- Ten etchings and eleven drawings in: Friedrich Freksa : Li Tai Po - Ein Gedicht , 1923
literature
- Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 245.
- GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 241.
- Below, Richard of . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 164 .
- Dankmar Trier: Below, Richard von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 543.
Web links
- Short biography of Richard von Below on www.galerie-fach.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 721
- ↑ Biography of Olaf Gulbransson (1873 - 1958) on www.museum-junge-kunst.de
- ↑ 3 etchings were published in the journal Die Kunst. Monthly booklets for free and applied arts. , Volume 21, 1920, Volume 41, pp. 253–255 ( digital copy )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Below, Richard of |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1879 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1925 |
Place of death | Berlin |