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Karl Stauffer-Bern

Karl Stauffer, called Karl Stauffer-Bern (* 2 September 1857 in Trubschachen, † 24 January 1891 in Florence ) was a Swiss painter , engraver and sculptor.

Life
Karl Stauffer was born the son of the curate Eduard Stauffer and Louise Stauffer-Schärer, a sister of the psychiatrist Rudolf Schärer who had worked as a teacher in England.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, worked in Berlin as a portrait painter and then turned the engraving and etching to. As a teacher, he taught Käthe Kollwitz and Hedwig White.

In 1888 he went to Rome, to the sculpture to learn, accompanied by Lydia Escher , the daughter of the railway king Alfred Escher and daughter of the Bundesrat Emil Welti.

Against the adulterous love affair intervened the Swiss minister and the state government. Lydia came to an asylum, Karl jail. After his release, he committed suicide with an overdose of medication, a year later killed Lydia Escher with gas.

The playwright Herbert Meier processes the historical figure of the painter in his play Stauffer-Bern (premiered 1974).

The tone poem An Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss (premiered 1915) was originally conceived as a musical portrait Stauffer-Bern [1] Strauss realized only the musical depiction of mountain climbing the avid mountaineer Stauffer-Bern and waived direct biographical references.

Works
Lydia Welti Nude Girl, 1886 Portrait of the writer Gottfried Keller, 1886 Portrait of the writer Gustav Freytag, 1886-1887

Fiction
Wilhelm Schäfer : Karl Stauffer's life transition - A chronicle of the passion Munich and Leipzig, Georg Müller 1912th. links Commons: Karl Stauffer-Bern - collection of images, videos and audio files Works by or about Karl Stauffer-Bern in the catalog of the German National Library Karl Stauffer-Bern in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland Website to Karl Stauffer-Bern Itemization ↑ interpretation of Rainer Bayreuth

Standard data (person): PND : 11875288X | LCCN : n50054049 | VIAF : 27334403 | People search Wikipedia Categories : Etcher Swiss sculptor Swiss painter Swiss Born 1857 Died in 1891 Man