Teobert painter

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Teoberto painter, ca.1910.
Castillo painter (1892)

Teobert (o) Painter (* 12. January 1842 in Rome ; † 22. November 1917 in Merida , Mexico ) was a German - Austrian architect , civil engineer , photographer , explorer and researcher of Maya - ruins .

Life

Teobert Maler was born in Rome as the son of a German diplomat . He studied architecture and civil engineering . From 1862 he lived and worked in Vienna for the architect Heinrich Ferstel , who built the Votive Church . Shortly afterwards he acquired Austrian citizenship and in 1864 went to Mexico with the Austrian kk pioneer corps . There he took part in the struggle for the succession to the throne of Archduke Maximilian until his execution on June 19, 1867.

His love for Mexico made him stay in the country and call himself Teoberto from then on. Evidence of this is a graffito that he carved into the "Castillo painter" with the dates 1897 and 1904. He studied the languages ​​of the Totonacs and Zapotecs and documented his travels through photos and reports. While traveling in Central America, he found numerous ruins of Maya buildings by asking the locals , which he documented in words and pictures.

Maler devoted his life and not inconsiderable private fortune entirely to the exploration of the Maya. His reports and especially photographs are of inestimable value today, as many of the sites and works of art he discovered have now been destroyed.

Partial bequests from Teobert Maler are in the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin , in the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold and in the Peabody Institute of Harvard University in the USA . In addition to many anthropological writings dealing with prehistoric Mexican culture, his estate also contains a large number of architectural drawings.

literature

  • Doris Bonaccorsi-Hild: Teobert painter. Soldier, adventurer, scholar on the trail of the Maya. Ibera-Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85052-022-6 .
  • Alfredo Barrera Rubio: La obra fotográfica de Teobert painter en la Peninsula de Yucatán. In: Gerdt Kutscher, Anneliese Mönnich, Wera Zeller (eds.): Commemorative publication Walter Lehmann. Part 1 (= Indiana. Contributions to ethnology and linguistics, archeology and anthropology of Indian America. Vol. 6). Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-7861-1320-3 , pp. 107-124.
  • Berthold Riese :  painter, Teobert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 726 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Egon Erwin Kisch : Teoberto Maler, a man in an enchanted city. In: Egon Erwin Kisch: Discoveries in Mexico. Droemer Knaur, 1984, ISBN 978-3-426-01088-4 .
  • Lorenz Töpperwien: Pictures from another world: On the trail of a forgotten Mayan explorer. In: Back then: the magazine for history. 2006, no. 10, pp. 68-72, online at beim.de, accessed on April 10, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Teoberto Maler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Revenge of the Rain God - Fall of the Maya ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2016 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. ZDF / Arte documentary, 2004, 51 minutes, director: Michael Gregor.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
personal data
SURNAME Painter, Teobert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Painter, Teoberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Mexican photographer, discoverer and researcher of Mayan ruins
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1917
Place of death Merida , Mexico