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September 5th, 2020 
Awake Goy 
Rudolf Reschreiter painted hyper-realistic landscape artworks with incredible simplicity. One can notice how the layers of colour were applied on those canvases to create the desired effect without adding excessive detail. In his biography it is said that he worked with watercolour, although he also made use of gouache (which I believe is the actual technique that he employed on the works featured in the gallery below). We can also state that Reschreiter “touched heaven” when he traveled with geographer Hans Meyer to Ecuador to climb the Chimborazo mountain, said to be the “highest mountain on Earth”. Indeed Rudolf Reschreiter was a natural-born hiker.
Unfortunately, close to the end of his life, Reschreiter suffered of a lethal form of sclerosis which got the better of him before he turned 70.
Regardless I hope people here enjoy Rudolf Reschreiter’s outstanding body of work to be found in the gallery below. All the information for Reschreiter’s biography comes exclusively from German sources. Comments will be appreciated.
Biography
Rudolf Reschreiter (ᛉ 1868 – ᛦ 1939) was a German painter. Rudolf was born in Munich as the son of a municipal official known as Karl Reschreiter and his wife Pauline. Rudolf had two brothers, Oskar (born 1861) and Hubertus (born 1872). Reschreiter at the age of 14, together with his brother Oskar and the mountain guide Josef Dengg from Garmisch, crossed all three Höllental peaks.
Rudolf Reschreiter graduated from the Wilhelm High School in 1888. One of Reschreiter’s classmates was the daring climber Georg Winkler, who died in an avalanche shortly after graduating himself from high school in Valais.
After these events Reschreiter studied at the Münchner Academy with Gabriel von Hackl. He mainly painted in watercolour technique and was known for his hyper-realistic depictions of nature. One of his most famous works is the illustration of the Waxenstein ridge. Also in 1888 Rudolf Reschreiter joined the Munich section of the Alpine Club.
In 1895 Rudolf Reschreiter became a founding member of the Bayerland Section, a title which -by then- was only permitted to men.
In 1903 he traveled with the geographer Hans Meyer to the South American Cordilleras located in Ecuador, 6,301 meters high, where the completely glaciated Chimborazo is to be found. Reschreiter then painted a whole series of “Chimborazo Pictures”. Meyer named one of the glaciers “Reschreiter-Gletscher” but apparently the name didn’t last officially speaking.
Rudolf Reschreiter’s works can be found at the Alpine Museums of Kempten, Munich and the Alpenverein Museum in Innsbruck. Rudolf Reschreiter made the drawings for Schweiger’s guide through the Wetterstein Mountains in Munich, in 1901.
In 1910 Reschreiter married Josefa Schiffmann. Their daughter Pauline was born in 1908.
In the thirties Rudolf Reschreiter suffered of progressive paralysis and weakness hindering his ability to walk. He needed the use of a wheelchair and special care. Rudolf Reschreiter suffered of disorders in the nervous system as a result of multiple sclerosis. It is likely that Rudolf Reschreiter suffered from myatrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) a degenerative paralysis disease that inevitably leads to death within a few years.
Rudolf Reschreiter died on August 7, 1938, shortly before his 70th birthday. He was buried in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich.
Sources: DAV website and wikipedia (Deutsch)
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