Michael Echter

Self portrait, 1842.

Michael Echter (5 March 1812, Munich — 4 February 1879, Munich) was a German painter. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Heinrich Hess, Clemens Zimmermann,

and Julius Schnorr, then of Olivier; assisted Schnorr in the decoration of the Royal Palace in Munich, and in 1846 Kaulbach, by whom he was much influenced, in that of

the Berlin Museum. After his return to Munich, he became member of the Academy in 1862, and professor at the Art School of Industry in 1868. Order of St. Michael,

Belgian Order of Leopold, Bavarian Medal for Art and Science. Works : St. George, Peter Delivered from Prison ; Walk to Emmaus; Battle in Lech Valley in 955 (1860),

Treaty of Pavia (both in Maximilianeum) ; Barbarossa's Wedding (1865), Burial of Walther von der Vogelweide (both in National Museum, Munich); Four Elements (1865) ;

Telegraphy and Railroad Travelling (1862), Central Railway Station, Munich ; thirty Scenes from Wagner's Operas (Royal Palace, Munich) ; Fancy and Poetry (1873) ; Aurora ;

Twelve Months represented by Children's Figures.

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