Teutwart Schmitson

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Teutwart Schmitson (born April 18, 1830 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 2, 1863 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian genre and animal painter , who primarily appeared as a realistic painter of horses and cattle .

Life

Schmitson, the only son of Teutwart Schmitson (1784-1856) , the only son of the kk lieutenant colonel, who was born in Bingen am Rhein , military writer and Austrian agent for the German Confederation , and his wife, a daughter of the general superintendent Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke , lost after the death of his mother († 1848) also his two sisters († 1852 and 1854).

He studied architecture in Frankfurt am Main until he was twenty-two . As an autodidact , he began drawing animals, life drawing and oil painting . He came up with a special technique that consisted of lowering the oil content of the oil paint by first applying it to postcard-sized plasterboard for a few hours before it was transferred from there via the palette to the canvas. In 1854 he exhibited for the first time at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, the picture of a plowing farmer with a team of two horses and a cow. Against the wishes of his father, who died in 1856, he married Wilhelmine Beckel (1829–1908), who was born in Wiesbaden, with whom he moved to Düsseldorf in 1854 , at that time the center of the Düsseldorf school of painting . Daughter Therese August Emma was born there on July 10, 1855. The marriage later divorced; a long-term dispute over the offspring followed. He opened a studio in Düsseldorf and taught students such as Carl Rudolf Huber . In 1855 Schmitson became a member of the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten . The animal painters Eugen Krüger and Adolf Schreyer were among his Düsseldorf artist friends .

In 1856 Schmitson moved to Karlsruhe and in the autumn of 1857 to Berlin , where he moved into a studio at 11 Schadowstrasse . There the animal painters Otto Weber and Paul Friedrich Meyerheim were strongly influenced by him. Meyerheim described him as a “stately, tall and lean appearance with a sharply curved nose, small eyes, large red beard sideburns and simple, straight, brown-gray hair, in an impeccably elegant toilet”, and his painting as a “new peculiarly bold conception and rendering of the movement of the Animals ”, as a“ premonition of rapid photography ”that astonished artists and audiences and angered Berlin art critics. In the years 1860/61 he went on a study trip to Italy . It was there that the picture Transporting Marble Blocks in Carrara was created .

After brief stays in Paris and The Hague, he moved permanently to Vienna in 1861, where Schmitson lived in seclusion and did commissioned work, for example for the art collector Friedrich Jakob Gsell and the art dealer Sedelmayer. Another commissioned work, the portrait of Princess Kinsky on horseback , was arranged by the portrait and history painter Gustav Richter, who was already friends in Berlin . This work remained unfinished as a result of the artist's blindness, which appeared as a symptom of kidney disease shortly before his death. The picture was later painted over. Schmitson's extensive artistic estate was auctioned in Vienna from December 21 to 23, 1863.

Works (selection)

Horse pond , 1860 (black and white illustration from an artist's dictionary)
Continuous team of oxen (black and white illustration from an artist's dictionary)
  • 54 sheets with studies of the nude in lead, chalk and red chalk, around 1850
  • 22 sheets with compositions on William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis , around 1850
  • Peasant leader , 1858, awarded a large first class gold medal at the international art exhibition in Brussels , 1861
  • Transport of Hungarian broodmares , 1860
  • Horse pond , 1860
  • Cows in the Water , 1860
  • Transport of marble blocks in Carrara , 1860/1861, came into the possession of the Berlin National Gallery
  • Herd of cows , 1861
  • The poor man's cow , Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Continuous team of oxen
  • Hungarian horses in the Puszta
  • Music lesson with only moderately interested dog
  • Horses in the snow
  • In the pasture

literature

Web links

Commons : Teutwart Schmitson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teutwart Schmitson . In: Men of Time. Biographical lexicon of the present . Second series, published by Carl B. Lorck, Leipzig 1862, Sp. 310 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439
  3. ^ Richard Graul : Adolph Schreyer . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , 23 (1888), pp. 153–159; Website in the portal kronberger-maler.de , accessed on January 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schmitson, Teutwart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian genre and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1863
Place of death Vienna