Ernst Resch (1807 - 1864)

Ernst Resch

Ernst Resch was a German painter of the Biedermeier period. Resch studied at the Dresden Academy with Moritz Retzsch and came to Breslau in 1838. He is best known as a portrait and landscape painter. In 1860 he was appointed professor in Breslau and was an active member of the Silesian Society of Friends of the Arts. Works by Resch can be found in the National Museum in Warsaw, the Silesian Museum in Görlitz and the National Gallery in Berlin. Some of his works were in the estate of Adalbert Wölfl, who was one of his students, including portrait drawings, landscape sketches and draft compositions.