Collection

1947 NAXOS ARCHITECTURE

Richard Seewald
(Choszczno 1889 – 1976
Munich)

Naxos
indian ink/paper 15,8 x 18,3 cm
signed Seewald,
inscribed Naxos architecture

Richard Seewald (Choszczno 1889 – 1976 Munich) was a German painter, graphic artist, and writer of Magical Realism, specializing in Mediterranean landscapes, still lifes, and religious subjects. Born in 1889 in Arnswalde (now Choszczno, Poland) as the son of an architect, he briefly studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich in 1909. A self-taught artist, he was discovered by the Thannhauser Gallery in 1911, debuted at the Salon d’Automne in Paris and exhibited with Herwarth Walden, married Uli Trotsch in 1911, was a member of the New Munich Secession and the German Artists’ Association, received a
professorship at the Cologne Art Schools in 1924, converted to Catholicism in 1929, moved to Ronco/Ascona in 1931, taught briefly at the Munich Academy from 1954 to 1958, and spent his retirement in Munich. Seewald created tonal landscapes, religious frescoes, and illustrated books with a clear formal language, luminous palette, and New Objectivity clarity, influenced by the Italian Renaissance, Theodor Haecker, and Mediterranean light; oil paintings, watercolors, stained-glass windows, and murals, such as the one in the Stella Maris Church on Norderney, characterized by harmonious composition and spiritual depth. Further artists and styles: Theodor Haecker, Carl Muth, Heinrich Thannhauser, Herwarth Walden, New Munich Secession, Magical Realism, Cologne School of Applied Arts, Sacred Art