Georg Jauss
Georg Jauss ( born March 15, 1867 in Hattenhofen / Wuertt; . † March 6, 1922 in Munich) was a German landscape painter of the turn of the century in Bavaria.
Life
Jauss was born in 1867 as the oldest of six children of Leopold and Anna Maria Jauss in Hattenhofen. The father was a mason and farmer. From 1873 to 1880 he attended the elementary school in Hattenhofen. The Protestant pastor discovered his talent and encouraged him, so that he in Göppingen received drawing lessons from 1880. In 1882 he was taken in the Ancient class art school in Stuttgart and from 1883 he was a fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. His teachers were Jacob Green Forest and Friedrich von Keller, had the great influence on him. Classmates were Christian Landsberger and Bernhard Buttersack, with whom he was a close friend. He teamed up with another student from the Best and was allowed to make a trip to Italy in the summer of 1890. After his military service he went to Munich and Dachau, where he was transformed from a genre painter of the landscape painter. Around 1895 he got a job as a teacher in artists club in Munich. From 1895 he was a member of the Munich Secession, and also participated in exhibitions in Stuttgart, Berlin and Bremen. 1899 was the resignation of his Magisterium in artists association and the exit from the Munich Secession.
From 1906 until 1913 he was a member of Luitpold- group, then again at the Munich Secession. In 1899 he married Caroline Hegeler, his pupil, and built a studio house in Dachau. 1902 was the birth of his daughter Anne Marie. 1904 his wife died two years after he sold the Dachau house. 1909 a son was born. In 1910 he entered into a second marriage with Katharina Heimerl. From 1913 summer house in Irschenhausen in Icking. In 1919, his naturalization in Bavaria. From 1920 he was again a member of the Munich Secession. Georg Jauss died in 1922 of a stroke in Munich and was buried at the North Cemetery in Munich.