Theodor Alt

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Drawing hostel to home
Dormouse (1871)
Painting Old Peasant Couple at the Snack (1870)

Theodor Zacharias Friedrich Alt (born January 23, 1846 in Döhlau ( Upper Franconia ), † October 8, 1937 in Ansbach ) was a German painter .

Life

Alt was the son of Döhlau pastor Heinrich Alt and his wife Justina Ziegler. After receiving his first lessons from his father, Alt attended the Latin school in Regensburg , where his father headed the Protestant community from 1856 to 1870.

In 1861 he moved to the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts , where he remained as a student of Hans Ringlein until 1863. In late summer of the same year, Alt moved to the art academy in Munich on the recommendation of his teachers . There he first became a student of Hermann Anschütz and from 1866 to 1873 with Arthur von Ramberg .

During this time, Alt was Wilhelm Leibl's classmate . The two were soon joined by Rudolf Hirth du Frênes , whom Alt knew from Nuremberg from the arts and crafts school. Together with Wilhelm Leibl, Johann Sperl and Rudolf Hirth du Frênes, Alt moved into a joint studio in Munich in Arcisstrasse in 1869 . Here Leibl wanted to realize his idea of renewing German painting in the sense of painterly realism . From this studio community, the later famous Leibl Circle arose , to which Karl Haider , Fritz Schider and Wilhelm Trübner belonged.

Alt's pictures from this period are very similar in subject and execution to those of Leibl. Artistically, he was denied the opportunity to step out of Leibl's shadow, as his hopeful career ended after just a few years . At the end of 1873 Alt settled down as a painter in Petersaurach , Middle Franconia , but as early as 1876 a mental illness forced him to repeatedly pause painting.

From 1878 to 1884 Alt lived with his mother in Adelshofen near Rothenburg ob der Tauber , where he painted less and less. Stubborn sleep disorders , hallucinations and, most recently, aggression against himself and his own family led him more and more often to the Erlangen district insane asylum from 1880 onwards .

In 1884 Alt, again with his mother, settled in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, as the medical care was better here. When his mother died in 1901, Theodor Alt moved in with his sister, who was a pastor's widow in Ansbach. He died there on October 8, 1937, aged over 90.

Most of his drawings are kept in the RothenburgMuseum Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

A street was named after him in the Ramersdorf-Perlach district of Munich .

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