Rudolf Reschreiter was a German painter.
Reschreiter studied after graduating from high school in 1888 at the Wilhelm Gymnasium München at the Munich Academy under Gabriel von Hackl . He mainly painted using the watercolor technique and was praised for his hyper-realistic portrayal of nature. One of his most famous works is the illustration of the Waxenstein ridge from Mathaisenkar. In 1903 he toured the South American Cordilleras with the geographer Hans Meyer and visited the 6301 meter high, completely glaciated Chimborazo in Ecuador. Reschreiter then painted a whole series of “Chimborazo pictures”.
His works can be seen in Alpine museums, Kempten, Munich and the Alpine Club Museum Innsbruck . Rudolf Reschreiter made the drawings for “Schwaiger's Guide through the Wetterstein Mountains”, Munich, 1901.