Georg Achtelstetter

Georg Achtelstetter (* May 5, 1883, in Augsburg; † March 13, 1973, in Cham) was a German painter and writer. He lived in Nuremberg for 20 years and participated in the Great German Art Exhibition in 1938 with his watercolor “The Bavarian Forest,” which was acquired by Wilhelm Frick.

Since 1947, Cham, a town in the Upper Palatinate, became his chosen home, and many of his motifs are from this region, gaining recognition far beyond the Bavarian Forest. Achtelstetter was also active in various local clubs in Cham.

Among his most well-known works are his watercolors, oil paintings, and large-scale murals, including:

The depiction of St. James at the St. James Parish Church in Cham
The image of the Pandur riders for the play “Trenck the Pandur” in Waldmünchen
Various landscape paintings of the present-day district of Cham
Part of his estate is preserved in the German Art Archive at the German National Museum in Nuremberg.