Robert Seuffert

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Robert Seuffert (born March 28, 1874 in Cologne , † December 18, 1946 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter , and from 1912 to 1936 teacher and professor at the Cologne School of Applied Arts, which later became the Cologne Werkschulen .

Life

Seuffert's father and grandfather were already active as artists. While grandfather Lorenz Seuffert was still active as a modeller in Grünstadt , his father Mathias Seuffert, who was born in Mettlach around 1844, moved to Cologne as a sculptor at the beginning of the 1870s. There he married Sibilla Frinken (born September 22, 1850 in Cologne), his future mother, from Cologne in 1872.

Portrait of a lady

After completing his school education, Seuffert attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a student of Peter Janssen and Eduard Gebhardt . He created ceiling and wall paintings for a wide variety of representative buildings: including the opera in Cologne (ceiling painting 1902), the civil society in Cologne (ceiling painting), the district office of the district of Cologne (wall painting, 1911), the city ​​theater in Barmen, the Dankeskirche in Düsseldorf- Benrath. Furthermore station pictures for the Marienkirche in Essen and a monastery church in Ohio , as well as altar pictures for the St. Martin church in Flerzheim and the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Cologne. Seuffert was a member of the Cologne artists' association "Stil". He traveled to France, Italy and the Netherlands and in the winter semester of 1912 became a teacher at the Cologne School of Applied Arts.

Seuffert's students include Ernst Moritz Roth , Will Küpper , Matthias Profitlich (1898–1942) and Heinz Lohmar . His son of the same name Robert (1920–1983) was also a painter.

A street in Cologne-Klettenberg is named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Christ in the grave
  • The Queen of May (oil painting)

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert Seuffert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1874, document no. 1404.
  2. ↑ a b c d Robert Steimel: Cologne heads. Steimel-Verlag, Cologne-Zollstock 1958, column 386.
  3. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1850, document no. 2832.
  4. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, marriages, 1872, document no.295.
  5. ↑ a b Seuffert, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936.
  6. ↑ Seuffert, Robert . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 264 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Mixed news - School of Applied Arts in Cologne . In: The Christian Art; Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . 8th year 1911/1912. Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich 1914, p. 59 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  8. ^ Matthias Profitlich at Treffpunkt Kunst, accessed on January 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ Robert Seuffert Jr. on To the Eternal Cathedral, the site of the Johannis Freemason Lodge in Orient Cologne ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 16, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zum-ewigen-dom.de
  10. ↑ Die Kunst: Monthly magazine for free and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1909, p. 63 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ The Christian Art; Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . 11th year 1914/1915. Society for Christian Art, Munich, p. 56 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Seuffert, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and professor at the Cologne factory school
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1946
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau