Josef Eduard Teltscher

{{Infobox artist

| name = Josef Eduard Teltscher

| image = Teltscher-selbst.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Josef Eduard Teltscher, a self-portrait. Lithography 1825.

| birth_name = Josef Eduard Teltscher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1801|1|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Prague, Bohemia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1837|7|7|1801|1|15|df=y}}

| death_place = Piraeus, Greece

| nationality = Austrian

| known_for = Painting

| training =

| movement = Romanticism

| notable_works = Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) on his deathbed, 28 March 1827.

| patrons =

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Josef Eduard Teltscher (15 January 1801 in Prague, Bohemia – 7 July 1837 in Piraeus, Greece){{cite book|last=Saglietti|first=Benedetta|title=Beethoven, ritratti e immagini. Uno studio sull'iconografia|year=2011|publisher=Torino, EDT-De Sono|isbn=978-88-6040-362-9|pages=154|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zHOHfPGjkS0C&pg=PA154 |language=it}} was a painter and lithographer from the Austrian Empire. He was one of the best Viennese portrait lithographers and watercolourists of the first half of the nineteenth century in Central Europe, and as a miniaturist, according to his contemporaries, he was no less than Moritz Daffinger himself.

Life

Teltscher began his apprendiship in lithography in (Brno) and then from 1823 he was a student at the Vienna Academy. He was one of the first and most outstanding portrait lithographers in Vienna of the Biedermeier period and already had dealt with this new technology even before Josef Kriehuber. From 1829 to 1832, he had a very fruitful and successful period in Graz.{{cite web|last=Finder|first=Artist|title=Teltscher, Josef Eduard|url=http://artist-finder.com/stuff/database/info_popup.php?menu=artist&info=28611|publisher=Artist-finder.com|accessdate=17 August 2011}}

He was close to Franz Schubert and his circle of friends and created the most authentic portraits of the master. Also, he was with Ludwig van Beethoven on his deathbed.{{cite book|last=Clive|first=H. P.|title=Beethoven and his world: a biographical dictionary|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-816672-9|pages=363|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0597Beh43EC&q=Josef+Eduard+Teltscher&pg=PA363}} These blades were, as described in Die Welt von Gestern, owned by Stefan Zweig,{{cite book|last=Comini|first=Alessandra|title=The changing image of Beethoven: a study in mythmaking|year=2008|publisher=Sunstone Press|isbn=978-0-86534-661-1|pages=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYBAFG01FOsC&q=Josef+Eduard+Teltscher&pg=PA62}} but that are property of the British Library today. On 7 July 1837, Teltscher drowned on a study trip in the port of Piraeus near Athens, Greece.

Additional informations

=References=

;Attribution

This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article on the German Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josef_Eduard_Teltscher&action=history History] section.

=Further reading=

[http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=11644&scale=5&viewmode=fullscreen&page=273 Teltscher, Josef Eduard]. In Constantin von Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich, 43. Band, S. 268, Wien 1881 {{in lang|de}}