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Karl Rettich (painter)
Karl Lorenz Rettich (10 June 1841 – 12 September 1904) was a German landscape artist and draftsman. Life Rettich was born in Rosenhagen near Dassow in Mecklenburg. His father was owner of the manor in this small village near the Bay of Lübeck. The area on the Baltic Sea influenced him at an early age and recover in his later works. Rettich went to high school in Lübeck, then in 1859 to study law in Munich on his fathers request. But he came over to landscape painting and became a pupil of Adolf Heinrich Lier. In 1862 he went to the Düsseldorf school of painting where he was until 1867 a student with Albert Flamm and Theodor Hagen. After living in Dresden 1867-70, he went 1871 to Weimar. There he was at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts for further studies of landscape painting as a student with Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Lenbach and also Theodor Hagen. He undertook study trips to Norway, Sweden, as well as Italy. After a few years in Munich (1886-1896) he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Schretter
Josef Schretter (18 March 1856, Inzing - 18 March 1909, Innsbruck) was painter from Austria-Hungary; specializing in portraits and Genre art, genre scenes. Biography His father, Peter Paul Schretter, was a teacher and organist. In 1867, he began an apprenticeship with a Carving, carver in Thaur, but quit after only a year, to attend an arts and crafts school associated with the . After graduating, he became an assistant to the church painter, in Zirl. From 1874 to 1878, he was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where his primary instructors were Christian Griepenkerl, August Eisenmenger and Karl von Blaas. After 1878, he studied history painting at a private school operated by Leopold Carl Müller. He passed the teachers' examination for freehand drawing, returned to Innsbruck in 1879, and spent two years teaching at the Bundesrealgymnasium. Between 1881 and 1885, he made study trips to several locations in Italy, and to Tunis, where he devoted himself to painting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
