Adolf Blamauer
Adolf Albin Blamauer (born August 15, 1847 in Vienna ; † October 19, 1923 there ) was an Austrian painter.
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As a student of Anton Hlavaček, Blamauer was employed full-time as a civil servant at the First Danube Steamship Company . He mainly created genre pictures , vedutas , high mountain landscapes and panoramas.
Around 200 watercolors are in the possession of the Landstrasse district museum , as he lived in Strohgasse 3. Another 200 watercolors with motifs from Lower Austria are in the possession of the Lower Austrian State Library . 15 watercolors with Viennese motifs are in the HM.
Blamauer also left behind a manuscript Castle and Ruins Lexicon of Lower Austria with 254 drawings and watercolors.
He was a co-founder of the Austrian Tourist Club and operator of the construction of the Elisabeth Church on Schneeberg .
His grave is in the Hernalser Friedhof (Gr. N / 54). In 1936 the Adolf-Blamauer-Gasse in Vienna- Landstrasse was named after him.
Publications
- Danube album.
literature
- Blamauer Adolf Albin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 91.
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blamauer, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blamauer, Adolf Albin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1923 |
| Place of death | Vienna |