Rudolf Reschreiter

Rudolf Reschreiter (4 September 1868 – 7 August 1938) was a Bavarian painter and alpinist famous for his depictions of the Alps and Austrian countryside through the medium of watercolor.

After graduating from high school in 1888, Reschreiter studied at Wilhelmsgymnasium,^[1] at the Academy of Fine Arts at Munich under Gabriel von Hackl. He painted mainly in the watercolor technique, specifically

gouache, and was praised for his hyper-realistic depiction of nature. Some of his most famous depictions include the Waxenstein ridge, Höllentalferner glacier, and the castle at Kufstein. In 1903 he traveled with the Geographer Hans Meyer to the Cordilleras in Ecuador, specifically the completely glaciated Chimborazo. Reschreiter then painted a whole series on the Chimborazo. One of the larger glaciers of Chimborazo was named Reschreiter Glacier in his honor.^[2] Many of his works can be seen in the Alpine Museum Kempten and the Alpine Club Museum in Innsbruck.

Rudolf Reschreiter's grave is located in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich, (grave field 33 – row 1 – place 27/28).^[3]

In 1960, in Munich in the Lerchenau-Ost district (district 24 – Feldmoching-hasenbergl) Reschreiterstrasse was named after him.

• View from the ridge between Herzogstand and Heimgarten to Lake Kochelsee
• Die Meilerhütte im Wettersteingebirge on the west
• Isar Valley landscape
• The Zugspitz summit with weather station and Munich houses
• Winter evening atmosphere Mittenwald (1935)
• View from the Höllentalangerhütte of the Höllentalgletscher near the Riffelwandspitzen, 1921
• View from the base of Crozzon di Brenta in the Dolomite range
• View of the Tannheim range
• View of the Ortler Alps
• View of the Dachstein Mountains
• South Tyrolean Dolomites, view from the Marmolata Glacier towards the Langkofel Group

Rudolf Reschreiter is mentioned in the following publications:

• Hans Meyer, In den Hoch-Anden von Ecuador: Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, etc. 2 Bände (Textband und Bilder-Atlas), Reimer, Berlin, 1907. *Bruckmann Münchner Maler im 19./20. Jahrhundert;
• Biographie mit Abbildung und Signatur, München, 1982–1994, 6 Bände.
• Steinitzer, Alfred; Der Alpinismus in Bildern, München, 1924.
• Informationsbroschüre von Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1997.
• Schemmann, Christine; Schätze & Geschichten aus dem Alpinen Museum Innsbruck, München, 1987. Weltkunst;
• Aktuelle Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten, München, 06/2001
• Heinz Peter Brogiat: Die Anden: Geographische Erforschung und künstlerische Darstellung: 100 Jahre Andenexpedition von Hans Meyer und Rudolf Reschreiter 1903-2003, Haus des Alpinismus, Alpines Museum, 2003, ISBN 978-3928777988