Andreas Weith
church painter, wood carver and stage designer
* 1858 in Acholshausen
† 1939 in Vienna
Andreas Weith was born in the B ü ttnerhaus as the son of a quarry owner and bricklayer and a farmer's daughter from Sonderhofen . His great-nephew was the later sculptor Ernst Singer from Hohestadt .
His talent for drawing was already apparent at a young age. He is said to have known from a young age that he wanted to be a painter. In 1870, a church painter from Kronungen near Schweinfurt was working in the Acholshäuser parish church and Weith began an apprenticeship with him. He completed his education at the Royal Max School in Würzburg and a private school in Munich . He then began traveling, which took him as far as Constantinople . In 1880 he settled in Vienna and became a theater painter.
He developed oil paints that do not darken and lightfast watercolors . His background images for photo studios are sold all over the world. He is said to have been the only painter for these backdrops in the whole of Austria - Hungary . Weith was highly respected and awarded as a decorative painter in the Viennese theater scene.