Richard Ludwig Josef Ritter und Edler von Poschinger was a German painter.
Richard von Poschinger came from the old Bavarian Poschinger family, whose lineage begins with Joachim Poschinger (1523–1599), squire on Zwieselau (Regen district) in the Bavarian Forest, and was first mentioned in 1140.
From 1859 he was a master student of Adolf Lier. He exclusively painted atmospheric landscapes. Since there was no class for landscape painting at the academy, he entered the private painting school in 1870 after initially training as a merchant. Numerous study trips took him to England, Belgium , Holland and Italy. Almost every year his paintings could be seen at the exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace. Medals in London, Madrid, Philadelphia and Sydney bear witness to his international success.
Despite his stays abroad, the artist, who lived alternately in Munich, Berg am Starnberger See and Schleissheim, remained true to his Upper Bavarian homeland. Based on a precise observation of nature and combined with atmospheric phenomena, his landscape descriptions are mood carriers and give impressive images of the excerpts chosen for the motif. He did not devote his attention to the spectacular and the greatness of nature, rather he sought the closeness to the plain and simple nature. Poschinger's oeuvre is thus closely related to traditional landscape painting . Impressed by the painterly achievements of the Barbizon School, in particular its representative Charles-François Daubigny, he succeeded in combining the French influences of paysage intime with the tradition of the southern German atmosphere of Eduard Schleich the Elder.
