Carl O'Lynch of Town
Carl O'Lynch of Town (born June 22, 1869 in Laibach, today Ljubljana , † January 31, 1942 in Genoa ) was an Austrian - German Impressionist painter of Irish descent.
Origin and CV
Carl O'Lynch of Town came from the widely ramified Irish patrician dynasty of the Lynch (family) in the city of Galway , who resided at Lynch Castle and sponsored the College of St. Nicholas in Galway. With James O'Lynch de Lynch Town, a member of the Austro-Hungarian Empire came at the end of the 17th century. The predicate: de Town (of Town, von Town) was acquired through a letter of nobility. (see: James F. Kenney: Early History of Ireland, Dublin 1966) His niece Sidonia (Sida) O'Lynch de Lynch Town, married to Hermann Sölch (1859-1926), reality owner in Slovenia , was the sister of the writer Irmgard Höfer von Feldsturm (1865–1919), née Sölch. (see: Sölch family members from Zettendorf , Eger district in Böhmen, German gender book , volume 214, 58th general volume, 2002, Limburg an der Lahn, pages 1021 and 1022). He himself was married twice; in 1st marriage with Antonia Anna Erkenger (1871–1913), in 2nd marriage with Malvine Hermann.
From 1888 to 1890 Carl O'Lynch of Town attended the Graz Drawing Academy, then he studied at the Vienna Art Academy with Siegmund L'Allemand (1840-1910) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Gabriel von Hackl (1843-1926) and Nikolaus Gysis (1842-1901). In 1904 he exhibited oil paintings in Graz at the 5th annual exhibition of the Styrian Association of Fine Artists . Although the artist had his headquarters in Munich , he regularly sent exhibitions in both Vienna and Graz. He was under the influence of Emil Jakob Schindler (1842-1892) and his circle of artists.
From 1904 to 1906 he was a member of the Hagenbund . In 1908 the artist received the great Austrian state medal. In 1929 he was awarded the Golden Medal of the City of Graz. Numerous study trips and stays took him to Italy , Holland , Belgium , southern England and the North and Baltic Seas . As a landscape painter , he primarily preferred the sea and its coastal regions as subjects , which particularly fascinated him and which he captured in picturesque, atmospheric pictures. During his stay in the Dachau artists' colony , his love for the high mountains, which would remain the decisive theme of his later days, awoke - he found his motifs in the Upper Bavarian, Austrian Alps and the Dolomites of South Tyrol . In addition to Alfred Zoff (1852–1927) and Eduard Ameseder (1856–1939), Carl O'Lynch of Town is also considered one of the most important Styrian artists of the turn of the century. Carl O'Lynch's style is partly reminiscent of Max Liebermann's . Today his works are privately owned and in various European museums (including Neue Pinakothek Munich , Austrian Gallery Belvedere Vienna , Neue Galerie Graz , Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren ). Carl O'Lynch of Town was buried in a crypt at Graz Central Cemetery .
literature
- Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century , Vol. 3, 1973
- Christiane Sternsdorf-Hauck (C.St.-H.), author, in Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art, Munich Painters in the 19th Century, Volume 3, Page 246, Verlag F. Bruckmann KG, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654- 1633-9 (complete edition)
- Christa Steinle, Gudrun Danzer (eds.), Under the open sky. The Barbizon School and its effect on Austrian landscape painting , catalog, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (2000)
- Manfred Srna (ed.): Kunsthandel, complete catalog of paintings, watercolors and drawings, Austrian paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries , Graz (2009), ISBN 978-3-200-01709-2
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Lynch of Town, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laibach |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1942 |
| Place of death | Genoa |