Ernst Schleith

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Ernst Schleith (born May 23, 1871 in Wieslet ; † February 11, 1940 there ) was a German painter and draftsman .

life and work

Gresgen with Nikolauskirche, drawing by Ernst Schleith

Schleith's extraordinary talent for drawing was encouraged by his teacher in the village school, and the pastor also ensured that he could attend the trade school in Schopfheim in 1886 . From then on I went to the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe . Here, like Hermann Daur from Lörrach , he studied with Franz Sales Meyer and Max Laeuger .

From 1892 he was a master student with Robert Poetzelberger , Hans Thoma and Ernst Schurth .

In 1900 he was appointed director of a private drawing school for women in Halle (Saale) . This was followed by a study visit to Munich from 1906 to 1907.

From 1910 to 1912 he had a studio in Karlsruhe, which he had to give up due to illness. He returned to the Wiesental . He was a soldier from 1914 to 1916. In 1919 he moved into a studio in the Wieslet school and worked as a portraitist and landscape painter, then mainly as a draftsman.

His drawings are photographic true to nature and dashed and dotted with a fine-grain grid. He was able to represent light and dark in the finest nuances.

Appreciation

Since May 2011, his studio, the Ernst-Schleith-Stube, has been reopened in the attic of the school in Wieslet.

The Neighborhood Primary School Steinen-Weitenau-Wieslet in the Steinem district of Weitenau neighboring Wieslet is named after Ernst Schleith.

literature

  • Hedwig Salm: The Wiesentäler painter Ernst Schleith . In: Ekkhard . Freiburg, Landesverein Badische Heimat, 1935, pp. 49–57
  • Kurt Ückert: On the 100th birthday of the painter Ernst Schleith . In: Das Markgräflerland , Issue 1/2 1971, pp. 92–95 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  • Helga Geiger: Ernst Schleith . In: Das Markgräflerland , Volume 2/1998, pp. 138–145 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  • Hans Viardot (Ed.): Ernst Schleith Calendar 1996 . Schopfheim, Initiative Art and Culture Kleines Wiesental (KUK), 1996
  • Hans H. Hofstätter, Berthold Hänel (author), district of Lörrach (ed.): In: The painters of the Markgräflerland . Freiburg im Breisgau, Schillinger-Verlag, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Atelier Ernst Schleith , accessed on August 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Schleith, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Wieslet
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1940
Place of death Wieslet