Sigmund von Sallwürk
Ernst Sigmund von Sallwürk (born April 12, 1874 in Baden-Baden ; died December 6, 1944 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Life
Sigmund von Sallwürk was a son of the pedagogue Ernst von Sallwürk . He attended high school in Karlsruhe and studied painting at the Karlsruhe Art Academy with Leopold von Kalckreuth as his master class and in Munich at Friedrich Fehr's private art school . From 1903 von Sallwürk lived as an academic painter in Halle and made portraits. Von Sallwürk also worked as an illustrator of books. In 1940 he received a commission from Heinrich Winkelmann for a series of paintings of people from the history of mining for the German Mining Museum in Bochum .
- Works (selection)
1901 poster
Karl May (posthumous)
Portrait of Adolph Goldschmidt
Illustration for Martin Frey, Bunte Welt
literature
- Eberhard Kasten: Sallwürk, Sigmund von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 100, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023266-0 , p. 470 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sigmund von Sallwürk in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sallwürk, Sigmund von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sallwürk, Ernst Sigmund von; Sallwürk, Ernst Siegmund from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden-Baden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1944 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |