Theodor Kotsch

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Tomb of the landscape painter in the old southern cemetery in Munich
Landscape by Theodor Kotsch (1855)

Theodor Kotsch (full name Friedrich Christian Theodor Kotsch ; born January 6, 1818 in Hanover , † November 27, 1884 in Munich ) was a German painter who mainly painted landscapes.

Life

Theodor Kotsch was born during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover at the beginning of the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of the Hanoverian businessman Theodor Kotsch and his wife Anna Dorothea Henriette, née Ede. The family was a member of the parish of the Marktkirche and, according to the Hanover address book from 1817, lived at the headquarters of the Kotsch et Borchers company, an English manufactory in the house "am Altstädter Markte 573". From 1820, at the latest, his parents lived at Kniehauerstrasse 44. Kotsch had a sister; his brother-in-law was Friedrich Ede .

After graduating from school, Theodor Kotsch attended the polytechnic school in his hometown , which had only recently been founded, from 1833 , presumably in order to subsequently take up a civil profession, such as an architect or engineer. During his training, which lasted until 1838, he received lessons from Heinrich Schulz, who also worked as a painter and restaurateur . Now the first drawings were made based on ancient models, but Kotsch could not yet find any instructions for painting. After his draft in 1838, he therefore acquired a certificate of homeland in July 1839 to travel to Munich , where at the age of 21 he found inspiration as a self-taught artist by studying the old masters exhibited in the Royal Gallery . Above all through Albert Zimmermann , who taught in Eberfing , Kotsch practiced landscape painting . So very early on he created oil studies based on nature in the vicinity of Munich. As early as 1840 he showed the first morning and evening moods, with forest and winter landscapes in the Munich Art Association .

In 1845 he returned to Hanover and stayed there for about nine years. During this period he found his motifs mainly on extensive hikes through the Harz Mountains , but also on the Regenstein , for example .

In the fall of 1854, Kotsch settled in Karlsruhe , where he joined the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863). After 1870 he moved back to Munich and stayed there until the end of his life. Theodor Kotsch died six weeks before his 66th birthday.

The city of Hanover became the heir of the painter, who mostly created "remarkable watercolors ". One year after the artist's death, the Berlin National Gallery showed a commemorative exhibition with a large number of sketches created by Kotsch, which mainly came from the possession of the Prussian Hanover Provincial Museum at the time, today's Lower Saxony State Museum , as well as from the possession of the Hanover-based brother-in-law von Kotsch, Friedrich Ede .

Works (selection)

His very correctly drawn and carefully composed landscapes are mostly taken from the Harz, Upper Bavaria and Swabia.

  • Mountain landscape after sunset and forest landscape (1847)
  • Waldbach (1853)
  • Oak landscape near Karlsruhe
  • Upper Bavarian Forest Landscape (1855)
  • The Regenstein near Blankenburg (1865)
  • Forest path near Prien am Chiemsee (1875)
  • Wood yard of a sawmill (1876)
  • Forest path on the Dellingerhöhe am Ammersee (1884)

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Kotsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rudi Theilmann: Theodor Kotsch , in ders .: Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's Karlsruhe School , dissertation in 1971 at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, 1971, p. 201; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ O. V .: Kotsch, Theodor in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) [undated], last accessed on March 20, 2020
  3. ↑ Hannöversches address book for the year 1817. With the most gracious permission , section Alphabetical directory of the local residents with a note of their business, the streets in which they live and the house number, Hanover: printed and published in the Königliche Hof-Buchdruckerey at GL Lamminger and Rosenbusch, [1816] , p. 48; Digitized version of the GWLB via the German Research Foundation
  4. ^ A b c d e Hyacinth Holland :  Kotsch, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 351 f.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Low German Contributions to Art History , Volume 22 (1983), p. 188; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ^ Wilhelm Rothert : Kotsch, Theod., KstMlr , in ders .: Allgemeine Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, p. 351
  7. ↑ Ines Katenhusen , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 473ff., Here: p. 474

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personal data
SURNAME Kotsch, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotsch, Friedrich Christian Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1884
Place of death Munich