Eduard Schleich (1812-1874)

Aliases: Eduard (1812) Schleich; Eduard (der Ältere) Schleich

Professions: Landscape painter

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  SCHLEICH, EDUARD (Haarbach 1812 - 1874 Munich )

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  Eduard SCHLEICH d. Ältere(Haarbach b.Vilshofen

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  SCHLEICH, EDUARD THE ELDER (attr., 1812-1874).

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  Eduard Schleich d. Ä., 1812 - 1874, zug.

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Eduard Schleich Biography

(b Schloss Haarbach, Landshut, 12 Oct 1812; d Munich, 8 Jan 1874). German painter. He trained from 1827 in the history painting class of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich but soon left to train privately. He was initially drawn towards the late Romantic landscape painting style of Carl Rottmann and Christian Morgenstern, and from about 1830 he had success with mountain landscapes based on sketches made in Upper Bavaria and the Tyrol. In these he relied on studies of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, especially its treatment of light and skies, to achieve clear and simple images of the Bavarian mountains in varying light conditions (e.g. A Peak ; ?1860s; Munich, Schack-Gal.). Schleich was much influenced by Peter Paul Rubens’s landscape paintings, to which he was introduced by the painter Carl Rahl, and which he studied in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and in the collection at Schloss Weissenstein in Pommersfelden. A visit to the Salon of 1851 in Paris had a strong impression on Schleich, especially the work of the Barbizon school. At the same time he encountered paintings by the English artists John Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington. Schleich’s own work includes both studies of his surroundings, for example Lake Starnberg with Schloss Starnberg (c . 1850), and largely invented scenes based on subjects only fleetingly observed, such as Venice by Moonlight (c . 1860; both Munich, Schack-Gal.). Although Schleich was never active as a teacher, he was seen as a model by many younger Munich landscape painters. The staffage in Schleich’s landscapes was often added by friends, for example the painter Friedrich Voltz (1817–86).

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