Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner (May 26, 1846 – April 2, 1925) was a German A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, has been known and documented before AD 100. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. During the 16th century, northern Germany became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. As a modern nation-state, painter and professor of art especially noted for his genre paintings Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Some variations of the of monks.
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Childhood
Grützner was born in 1846, the youngest of children, into a farming family in Groß-Karlowitz near Neisse, Upper Silesia Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Lower Silesia is to the northwest. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of (chronologically) Greater Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Prussia, and later of unified German Reich. It is currently split between Poland (Opole in what is now Poland. The local pastor often visited his parents' home, as his father was a prominent member of the church. He recognized early on Eduard's talent and inclination for painting. Even as a child he drew on everything that fell into his hands. The administrator of a ducal country house in the neighborhood got him paper, and eventually the pastor gained him entrance to the Gymnasium The Gymnasium is the classical higher or secondary schools of Germany for gifted students. Students are admitted at 10 or 13 years of age and are required to have had 4 years of Grundschule. To be admitted, students are supposed to have a formal recommendation by their teacher. Traditionally students attended the Gymnasium for 9 years in western (a university preparatory school A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education. Some schools will also include a junior, or elementary, school. This designation is mainly current in North America. In many parts of Europe, such as Germany, the countries of) of Neisse, and brought him in 1864 with the help of an architect Hirschberg for art education at the private school of Herman Dyck in Munich Munich (German: München, pronounced [ˈmʏnçən] ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga) is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg. There are approximately 1.35 million people living within city limits, while the Munich Metropolitan.
Studies
His tenure at the Kunstgewerbeschule A Kunstgewerbeschule was the old name for an advanced school of applied arts in German-speaking countries. The first such schools were opened in Kassel in 1867 and Berlin and Munich in 1868 with other German towns following. They are now merged into universities under Hermann Dyck, however, was only of short duration. In the first semester he transferred to the class of the Classical Art class of Johann Georg Hiltensperger and Alexander Ströhuber, where the students learned about the aesthedic ideals of antiquity.
In 1865 Grützner joined the painting class of Hermann Anschütz at the Munich Academy. Meanwhile, he also sought advice and inspiration with Carl Theodor von Piloty until he was taken into his class in 1867. Piloty's class was packed with aspiring artists from around the world, from Hungary, Greece, Germany, Russia, and Poland. After three years under Piloty, Grützner left the academy.
Career
In 1870 he moved into his own studio in the garden house of Schwanthalerstraße 18 in Munich. He quickly began to produce one painting after another. He made his career in Munich and was very successful. It was reported by artist and writer Friedrich Pecht in the journal Die Kunst für Alle (Art for All) in 1886: "the painters Eduard Grützner and Ludwig Willroider were granted the title of "professor" by Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria. In 1880 he was awarded the Order of Merit of St. Michael (Knight's Cross) first class. He was knighted in 1916.
Grützner as a collector
Grützner was an avid collector of art. Early on he favored pieces from the German late Gothic and early Renaissance. In the last decade of his life, but he turned from the late Middle Ages and collected art from the Far East. On his major compositions, however, he almost always included old pieces, mostly from his antique collection.
Family
In 1874 Grützner married Barbara Link, who two years later bore him a daughter, whom they named Barbara. In 1884, after ten years of marriage, his first wife died. In 1888, he became engaged to Anna Grützner Wirthmann, the daughter of a Munich garrison commander, and a short time later their son Karl Eduard was born. This second marriage was less harmonious and eventually his wife, who was some 17 years younger, left him for a Viennese Vienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area,[citation needed] more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and singer.
In his old age he sought solace in Chinese philosophy, and began to collect items from the far east and learn Japanese Japanese (日本語, Nihongo?, [nihoŋɡo] ) is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family. There are a number of proposed relationships with other languages, but none of them has gained unanimous acceptance. Japanese is an. Occasionally he included a Buddha figure Buddharūpa is the Sanskrit and Pali term used in Buddhism for statues or models of the Buddha or a Chinese vase in some of his paintings. He also painted a number of ascetic-looking cardinals, often with harsh and unsympathetic features. He died on April 2, 1925 in Munich.
Legacy
Grützner was, along with Carl Spitzweg Carl Spitzweg was a German romanticist painter and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the Biedermeier era and Franz von Defregger, one of Munich's leading genre painters in the second half of the 19th century. The paintings Grützner is best known for combine detailed academic Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities rendering with humorous and anecdotal subject matter, often depicting monks drinking.
Grützner was one of Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and, after 1934, also head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler, ruling the's favorite painters, Albert Speer Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, (pronounced [ˈʃpɛɐ] ; March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said quoting him as saying of one of the artist's works that he was "greatly underrated... Believe me, this Grützner will someday be worth as much as a Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Rembrandt himself couldn't have painted that better."[1]
Notes
Regarding personal names: Ritter Ritter is a designation used as title of nobility in German-speaking areas. Traditionally it denotes the second lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below "Freiherr". For its historical association with warfare and the gentry in the Middle Ages, it can be considered roughly equal to the titles of " is a title, translated approximately as Knight A knight was a member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe who followed a code of law called "chivalry". In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent suggesting a connection to the knight's mode of transport. Since antiquity a position of honour and prestige has been held by mounted, not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.
References
- ^ Speer, Inside the third Reich, p.44
- Hector Feliciano, Le musée disparu, Gallimard, 2008 (french edition) p. 34.
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| NAME | Grützner, Eduard Theodor Ritter von |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, has been known and documented before AD 100. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. During the 16th century, northern Germany became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. As a modern nation-state, painter and professor of art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groß-Karlowitz, Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1925 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Munich Munich (German: München, pronounced [ˈmʏnçən] ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga) is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg. There are approximately 1.35 million people living within city limits, while the Munich Metropolitan |
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