Vitus Staudacher

Vitus Staudacher (born November 13, 1850 in Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt , † December 2, 1925 in Baden-Baden ) was a German violinist and landscape painter .

Childhood and youth

Staudacher was born as one of seven children of a master rope maker and a traditional seamstress and midwife . Even in elementary school he showed special skills in the subjects of painting and music, which were encouraged by the pastor and teacher of the Gaimersheim market . In 1867 he joined a Bavarian infantry regiment , where he was allowed to study the violin . In 1870/71 he fought in the Franco-German War in Verdun and received a medal of bravery. After the war he played as a violinist in Hof in Bavaria in the newly founded theater orchestra.

Painter in Baden-Baden

In 1874 Staudacher moved to Baden-Baden, where he was hired as a "musician" in the newly founded municipal orchestra under conductor Miloslaw Koennemann (1826 to 1890). Through this activity Staudacher gained a financial security that enabled him to paint in his free time and to continue his education in this area. From 1877 to 1882 Staudacher studied on the recommendation of his friend Gustav Amberger (1831 to 1896), court painter to the Landgrave of Hesse , at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Ernst H. Richard.

In 1878 he married Ida Rüttinger from Freiburg on March 4th in Karlsruhe . The marriage resulted in two children, the daughter Antonia (* December 8, 1878), who later became an excellent portraitist herself , and the son Hermann (* September 1, 1882).

From 1885 Staudacher became known as a painter and in the following years rose to the top of the Baden-Baden artistic team. He was able to sell his pictures to wealthy spa guests from Switzerland, the Netherlands and America. His extensive oeuvre mainly covered the forests and meadow valleys around Baden-Baden, landscapes and villages in the Black Forest from Lake Constance and along the Rhine to Heidelberg. Staudacher and his painter friend Victor Puhonny (1838 to 1909) often painted outdoors in natural light. Both were pioneers of light painting in Baden , which originated in the Barbizon school in the 1820s and was in contrast to studio painting . Staudacher also exchanged ideas intensively with the Gutach artist colony , from which he took over some motifs from Gutach and the Kinzig valley .

In 1903 his first wife died. From his second marriage on March 11, 1905 came the daughter Anita (* May 27, 1907), who later took care of her father's artistic legacy. In 1911 Staudacher retired as a member of the Baden-Baden orchestra. As a painter, however, he continued to work and created a later work of considerable scope. His works were represented in art exhibitions in Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Kassel, Munich and Baden-Baden.

Staudacher died of a stroke in 1925 and was buried in the main cemetery in Baden-Baden. His grave has been preserved to this day.

Works

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  Vitus Staudacher (1894) Summer day in the blooming cottage garden

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  Vitus Staudacher (1894) Street scene in stone walls near Rastatt

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  Vitus Staudacher (1902) The Black Forest

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  Vitus Staudacher (1925) At the Rotenbächl

Recent exhibitions

Exhibitions of Staudacher's works took place in 2011 in the Gutacher Krämerhaus, in 2013 in the Baden-Baden city museum and in 2014 in the market museum in Gaimersheim.

literature

• Joachim Engert: Vitus Staudacher, genre and landscape painter, Gaimersheim 1850 - 1925 Baden-Baden, biography and catalog of works. Baden-Baden, Ancien-Grafik 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033979-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Vitus Staudacher: Views of Baden-Baden and the Black Forest. Monthly calendar / wall calendar 2014 with oil paintings by Vitus Staudacher , Falk Foundation, Freiburg 2013, p. 2 (biography).
2. ^ ^{A b} Forgotten Baden-Baden painter Vitus Staudacher rediscovered . In: Gutach in the Black Forest . Retrieved November 28, 2014.
3. ↑ Vitus Staudacher (1850-1925) . In: Baden-Baden the ultimate city guide , April 8, 2011. Accessed November 28, 2014.
4. ↑ Great exhibition of the master of "bright painting" Vitus Staudacher In: Gutach in the Black Forest. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
5. ↑ Vitus Staudacher's work exhibition ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Donaukurier , September 25, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014. 
6. ↑ The work of the Hellmaler . In: Badische Zeitung , April 14, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
7. ^ Exhibition Vitus Staudacher . In: Donaukurier , September 25, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

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