GEORG OSTERWALD (1803-1884)
The Rothenbachkopf (1,315 m - 4,314 ft)
France (Alsace)
In Vue du Rothenbach, watercolour, 1873. Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg
The mountain
The Rothenbachkopf (1,315 m - 4,314 ft) is a mountain in the High Vosges in France. Only a few metres to the west of the summit runs the Route des Crêtes heading south from the Col de la Schlucht. Several Vosges Clubhiking trails run over the top. A few kilometres north of the Rothenbachkopfs the border between Alsace and Lorraine turns and heads southwest.
The summit ridge is used as a cross-country ski course for the crossing of the Vosges mountains. Great care is recommended in winter because of the cornices, the possible fog and the violent and icy winds that can occur. On 28 December 1965, two inexperienced young German hikers, became lost in the fog and cold and died on the Rothenbachkopf.
The painter
Georg Osterwald was a German teacher, professor, landscape, architecture and portrait painter, draftsman, illustrator , etcher and lithographer.
After attending high school Rinteln, his hometown (until 1819), Georg Osterwald was initially a technical draftsman at the Oberbergamt Bonn. He studied painting at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität there , later also with Friedrich von Gärtner in Munich. He was also a drawing teacher at the local construction school.
From 1825 to 1828 he taught drawing at the Fellini Institute in Hofwil near Bern (Switzerland), from 1830 to 1832 in Paris .
In 1835 and 1836 he was, together with Johann Hermann Detmold, editor of the Hannoversche Kunstblätter , which the Kunstverein Hannover published for exhibitions.
Georg Osterwald can be traced in Hanover until 1843, where he worked as a painter.
Later Osterwald was temporarily in Dresden , then in Cologne , where he was appointed professor by King Wilhelm of Prussia in 1864.
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