Eduard Schleich the Elder

Eduard Schleich ( born October 14, 1812 in Castle Hair Bach, Vilsbiburg; † January 8, 1874 in Munich) was a German painter.

Life

The illegitimate son of the judicial council of lock hair Bach came to Munich in 1823, where he wanted to attend the Academy of Fine Arts but was rejected because you looked at him as untalented. Now he began to paint landscapes without guidance, with him Etzdorf Christian, Christian Morgenstern and Carl Rottmann were role models.

Then he formed after the Dutch masters who gained a decisive influence on the formation of his painterly style, which strove for a poetic representation of the mood. Traveling through Germany, France, Italy and Holland extended his horizon. In his early paintings, he still treated subjects from the Bavarian mountains.

Later he took them only the level and set himself the task to give the overall impression of the natural scenery to represent the infinitely changing play of atmospheric processes over the countryside poured light and still treat the scenic design merely as a carrier of light and color masses. It sufficed him the simplest allegations. The width of his lecture was recently in a superficial manner over, and he completed often a picture on a date.

In 1851 he undertook together with Karl Ebert, Dietrich Langko and Carl Spitzweg a study trip to Paris to be on the one hand inspired by the old masters in the Louvre, but on the other hand, get to know the avant-garde painting.

Schleich was a professor of the Munich Academy of Art and a member of the Academy of Arts in Stockholm and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He trained among other painters such as Julius Mařák. A number of his landscapes, which usually have an elegiac or melancholy character, has the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. At the direction of the recent Munich landscape painters he had exercised a decisive influence. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Dachau artists' colony, where he moved to again and again from the early 1840s.

Works (selection)

  • Moonlit night in Normandy (1858 )
  • Isaraue in Munich ( 1860)
  • Foggy morning on Lake Starnberg (1860 )
  • Herrenchiemsee (1871 )

Exhibitions

The Gemäldegalerie Dachau is 2011/2012 on the occasion of his bicentenary sixty paintings from Schleich.

The local museum Vilsbiburg ( Kröninger Hafner Museum ) shows until October 14, 2012, the special exhibition " ... me ennobles the art" - the life and work of the landscape painter Eduard Schleich the Elder. (1812-1874)

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