Richard von Below (painter)

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 721
  2. ↑ Biography of Olaf Gulbransson (1873 - 1958) on www.museum-junge-kunst.de
  3. ↑ 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
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