Sigmund Eggert

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Sigmund Eggert (born February 13, 1839 in Munich , † August 25, 1896 in Walchstadt ) was a German genre painter.

Life

Sigmund Eggert was a son of the Munich glass painter Franz Xaver Eggert (1802–1876) from Höchstädt an der Donau and his first wife Barbara, née Gsell.

First he attended the drawing school of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association in Munich. On November 22, 1855 he began studying painting at the Munich Art Academy with Hermann Anschütz and Joseph Schlotthauer . From the end of the 1850s he was an assistant in his father's glass painting workshop, but later continued his studies in genre painting with Arthur von Ramberg .

In 1875 he married Therese Riederer, a master tailor's daughter from Munich, with whom he had two daughters. Having settled in Munich, he was involved as an honorary district head (District 13 of the VI. District of Munich) and as a poor welfare councilor. Around 1890 he separated from his wife and moved to Walchstadt am Wörthsee in Upper Bavaria.

From working as a glass painter he switched to oil painting around 1870 and created figural scenes and portraits. He showed his work in numerous exhibitions, such as “The Favorable Moment”, “The Spiritual Arbitration Court” and the counterparts “Von Ihr” / “Für Ihn” in the Munich local exhibition in 1875, “Visit to the Village Painter” at the World's Fair in Philadelphia, USA , 1876, or "Lenerl, schneid 'mi nit!" On the occasion of the Kunstverein exhibition in Bremen 1878. Through the reproduction of numerous of his pictures as wood engravings in the magazines of the time - Daheim , Deutscher Hausschatz , Die Gartenlaube , Über Land und Meer and others - his pictures and pictorial themes became extremely popular.

Works

Collaboration as a glass painter with his father Franz Xaver Eggert
  • Baden-Baden, Protestant town church: Choir window: "Birth of Christ" and "Resurrection of Christ", 1863; Design (cardboard boxes) by Georg Fortner ; Transferred to glass by Heinrich Burkhardt and Sigmund Eggert.
  • Offenburg, Baden, Protestant town church: “Crucifixion”; inscribed below center: > Glasmalereianstalt von Franz Eggert. Munich 186 (3) < ; at the feet of Maria and Johannes: > Gg. Fortner comp (osuit) - Sigm. Eggert pinx (it) < .
  • Burgdorf, Canton Bern, Switzerland: 3 windows of the town church: "Ascension of Christ" with "Christ on the Mount of Olives" (grisaille), "Johannes" and "Paul", standing figures in tabernacles, with light ornamental glazing in the upper and base parts, 1868 (destroyed); Design: Georg Fortner; sign. by FX and S. Eggert.
  • Walchstadt, church: glass picture; Gift from S. Eggert.
Working in public collections
  • Höchstädt, local history museum: "Portrait of Franz Xaver Eggert and his wife".
  • Munich, Stadtmuseum (Maillinger collection): map of the Carnival entertainment of the citizens' guild of singers on February 7, 1872 in the Westendhalle: insight into the hall; Begging children playing music at the entrance.

literature

Web links

Commons : Sigmund Eggert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation .
  2. ↑ The collector. Fiction supplement to the Augsburger Abendzeitung. 45th year 1875. Augsburg. No. 71, June 26, 1875, p. 4.
  3. ^ International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876: German Department, official catalog. No. 665.
  4. ↑ Catalog of the 21st large painting exhibition of the KV in Bremen, 1878, No. 166.
  5. ↑ Joseph Maillinger : Picture Chronicle of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Munich: Directory of a collection of graphic arts products on the local, cultural and art history of the Bavarian capitals from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Munich, III (1876), no.488.
personal data
SURNAME Eggert, Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1896
Place of death Walchstadt (Wörthsee)