Gottfried Seelos
Austrian landscape painter of Italian scenes
Gottfried Seelos was an Austrian painter. After basic studies at the universities of Verona and Innsbruck 1845–1847 and subsequent law studies 1847–51 in Vienna and Munich, Gottfried Seelos studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under the landscape painters Johann Novopacky and Joseph Selleny, whose sister Theresia he married in 1886. With Selleny and Novopacky he went on his first study trip to Italy in 1853/54, which was later followed by several more. Gottfried Seelos received significant support from the Viennese industrialist, politician and patron Nikolaus Dumba , in whose Liezen country estate he regularly stayed in the summer and where the over portals of the music salon, including a view of Lake Wörthersee near Velden , came from him. In 1930 Seelosgasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.
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Master student
- Joseph Selleny Master
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist
- A landscape in the Fassa Valley, South Tyrol 1862
- A Neapolitan landscape 1897
- Brandung vor der Küste der Insel Melada
- Südliche Idylle 1877
- An der Küste 1889
- Fischer An Der Dalmatinischen Küste 1887
- Kastanien in Südtirol 1874
- Das Leuchtfeuer von Prestenizza auf der Insel Cherso 1886
- A blooming landscape, presumably in the Adige valley (Etschtal) near Bolzano 1866
- A landscape near Sebetov Castle 1892
- Schlern mit Rosengarten von Rampeun aus gesehen
- Farm houses at the Steinernes Meer mountains near Saalfelden
- Wörthersee bei Velden
- Kastanienhain 1870
- Landscape in the South Tyrol and figure staffage with Mendel mountain in the background 1899
- A southern coastline, surrounded by a mountain range
- Bergisel 1880
- A view of Sebetov (Schebetau) Castle near Boskovice 1892