Rudolf von Seitz
Rudolf (von) Seitz (15 June 1842 in Munich – 18 June 1910 in Munich) was a German painter, illustrator, and designer. Career After early art instruction from his father, decorative painter and illustrator Franz von Seitz, Rudolf enrolled in 1857 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where his teachers included Karl von Piloty and Hermann Anschütz. He began with genre paintings such In Peter Vischer’s Gießhütte zu Nürnberg (trans. In Peter Vischer's Foundry in Nuremberg), but then turned primarily to illustration, applied arts and decorative painting. Seitz's work ranged from providing the ornamental frames and print decorations in the rococo style for magnificent editions of Goethe's Faust and Schiller's Glocke, with illustrations by Sándor Liezen-Mayer, to elaborately painting the ceiling of the Bavarian court bakers and designing their bread stamps (). Seitz preferred the style of the German late Renaissance and Rococo, and was a leader in the Munich (applied arts society), where Seitz and other leading artists designed all kinds of decorations, pageants, costumes, illustrations, graphics, and more. In 1878, together with architect Gabriel von Seidl, Seitz founded the design company "Das Renaissancemagazin Seitz & Seidl", where soon also worked and took over the management of the interior