
Bernhard Buttersack (16 March 1858,
Bad Liebenzell
Bad Liebenzell (; Swabian: ''Bad Liabazell'') is a spa town in the Nagold River valley, the northern part of the Black Forest. It was first mentioned in 1090 and is the heart of the Liebenzeller Mission (a religious movement).
Bad Liebenzell is ...
— 6 May 1925,
Icking
Icking is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria in Germany.
People
* Anita Augspurg, lived in Icking from 1916 until she fled the Nazis
* Dieter Borsche, actor, lived in Icking in the beginning of the '60s.
* B ...
) was a German
landscape painter
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...
of the
Munich School
Munich School ( el, Σχολή του Μονάχου) is the name given to a group of painters who worked in Munich or were trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich (german: Münchner Akademie der Bildenden Künste) between 1850 and 19 ...
.
Life and work
He displayed artistic talent at an early age, was encouraged by his parents and began his studies at the Royal Art School in
Stuttgart under
Jakob Grünenwald
Jakob Grünenwald (30 September 1821, Bünzwangen — 26 September 1896, Stuttgart) was a German genre painter and illustrator.
Life
Grünenwald was the eighth child of a family who worked a small farm. In 1840, he began his studies at the Sta ...
and
Albert Kappis. Upon completing his course there, he became a master pupil of
Hermann Baisch
Hermann Baisch (12 July 1846, Dresden - 18 June 1894, Karlsruhe) was a German painter and illustrator who specialized in landscapes and animals. He was one of the first artists in Germany to work in the French influenced " paysage intime" style.
...
and
Gustav Schönleber
Gustav Schönleber (3 December 1851 in Bietigheim – 1 February 1917 in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
His father ran a small industrial plant and he received his primary education in Stuttgart. A childhood accident ...
in
Karlsruhe
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. He worked in Munich from 1884 to 1889 and was soon appointed a Royal Professor by the Prince Regent
Luitpold. In 1891, he was awarded a Gold Medal at the
Glaspalast and, the following year, was one of the founders of the
Munich Secession
The Munich Secession was an association of visual artists who broke away from the mainstream Munich Artists' Association in 1892, to promote and defend their art in the face of what they considered official paternalism and its conservative polic ...
.
Towards the end of 1889, he moved to
Dachau County, inspired by the dramatic landscapes there. Four years later, after several moves, he settled in
Haimhausen, where he built a spacious house with a large art studio and landscaped garden. He soon opened a private art school and began what became the Haimhausen Art Colony.
In his later years, however, he suffered from an unspecified "nervous ailment", which was difficult to define. The joy he felt for the local surroundings gradually diminished and he complained about the frequent easterly winds which, he said, ruined the picturesque atmosphere.
[Thiemann-Stoedtner: ''Die Malerkolonie Haimhausen.'' In: ''Amperland.'' Jg. 10, 1974, S. 519.] In 1914, he moved to Icking and became a recluse.
References
Further reading
* Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedter: ''Die Malerkolonie Haimhausen.'' In: ''Amperland.'' Jg. 10, 1974, pp. 518–527.
* Lorenz Josef Reitmeier: ''Dachau der berühmte Malerort.'' Munich 1990.
External links
Entry for Bernhard Buttersackon the
Union List of Artist Names
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1858 births
1925 deaths
People from Calw (district)
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
German landscape painters
19th-century German painters
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
19th-century German male artists