Josef Eduard Teltscher

Joseph Eduard Teltscher (born 15 January 1801 in Brno, † July 7, 1837 in Piraeus, near Athens ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer.

Life

Teltscher was trained in Brno and Vienna as a lithographer. From 1823 he was a student at the Vienna Academy. He was one of the first and most prominent Porträtlithografen in Vienna Biedermeier and addressed before Josef Kriehuber with this new technique.

By 1830 he had a particularly fruitful and successful creative period in Graz. He was close to Franz Schubert and his circle of friends and created the most authentic portraits of the Master. He also drew Ludwig van Beethoven on his deathbed. These leaves were as described in The World of Yesterday, owned by Stefan Zweig and are now owned by the British Library.

1837 drowned Teltscher on a study trip in the port of Piraeus.