Albert Tschautsch (20 December 1843 – 18 January 1922) was a German genre painter.

Albert Tschautsch - Enchantment (1896)

Life and career edit

 
Albert Tschautsch: Herd Boy Playing the Flute Among Ruins (1897)

Tschautsch was born in Seelow. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1863 to 1867, under Julius Schrader.[1] He began exhibiting in 1870. In 1874–78 he was in Rome. He later taught at the Royal School of Art in Berlin, where he became a professor in 1895.[2] He died in Berlin and was buried in the Lichterfelde Cemetery; his grave has not been preserved.[3]

Works edit

Many of Tschautsch's paintings depict subjects from fairy tales (such as "The Princess and the Spindle" from Sleeping Beauty[4]) and legends and from works by Shakespeare and Uhland. He also painted portraits and historical subjects.[2] In 1878 he painted the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Descent from the Cross in the transept of St. Joseph's Carmelite church in Posen, now Poznań, Poland.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "Tschautsch, Albert", in Dr. Hermann Alexander Müller, Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon, Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1882, online at Retrobibliothek (in German)
  2. ^ a b "Tschautsch, Albert", lot-tissimo.com (in German)
  3. ^ Wolfgang Holtz, "Ein Spaziergang über den Friedhof Lichterfelde in der Moltkestraße" Archived 2013-12-13 at the Wayback Machine, Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, City of Berlin, retrieved 13 February 2015 (in German)
  4. ^ "The Princess at the Spindle". The Aldine. 9 (4): 141–139. 1878. JSTOR 20637544.
  5. ^ "Kirche des hl. Joseph", Posen Online, City of Poznań, retrieved 13 February 2015 (in German)

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