Rudolf von Seitz

Rudolf von Seitz, photo by Frank Eugene

Rudolf (von) Seitz (born June 15, 1842 in Munich ; † June 18, 1910 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and craftsman .

Life

Seitz was a student of his father, the decorative painter and illustrator Franz von Seitz . His mother was Wilhelmine Koeniger. After training with his father, he entered the Piloty's school . He began with genre paintings ( Peter Vischer shows the customer the completed Sebaldus tomb , Noble Passions ) and then turned his activity preferably to illustration, applied arts and decorative painting.

In Peter Vischer's Gießhütte in Nuremberg ( Die Gartenlaube , 1867, p. 501)

Among other things, he provided the rococo-style ornamental frames and print decorations for a splendid edition of Schiller's Glocke and Goethe's Faust , the illustrations of which are by Liezen-Mayer. He preferred the style of the German late Renaissance and Rococo. In his decorative paintings (in the Kunstgewerbemuseum and on the facades of Munich inns), a certain mannerism was evident. In 1883 he became curator of the National Museum in Munich.

In 1888 he became a professor at the Munich Art Academy . In 1900 Seitz was ennobled. Among his students were Franz Xaver Dietrich and Richard Throll .

He married Carolina Paulina Marotte de Montigny (* 1844) at Kloster Seeon in 1869 . This came from a Belgian aristocratic family who, together with their father Karl Marotte de Montigny, were accepted into the Bavarian baron class in 1842. Rudolf von Seitz had a son named Hans.

Apse fresco by Rudolf von Seitz from 1892 depicting the Holy Trinity, apostles and Mary and her mother Anna in the Church of St. Anna in Munich

tomb

Grave of Rudolf Seitz on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Rudolf Seitz (in the grave father Franz Seitz ) is located on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 25 - row 13 - 36th) Location . 48.127027777778 11.564055555556

literature

Andrea Teuscher: Seitz, Rudolf Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 203 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Rudolf von Seitz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Seitz, Rudolf von (Prof.), Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Land - text excerpt from over 4900 short biographies ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Seitz, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seitz, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1910
Place of death	Munich

[Benkert-1] Seitz, Rudolf von (Prof.), Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Land - text excerpt from over 4900 short biographies ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )