Albert Tschautsch

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

Life and career

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

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
  1. "Tschautsch, Albert", in Dr. Hermann Alexander Müller, Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon, Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1882, online at Retrobibliothek (in German)
  2. "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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