Adolf Chwala

Wooded river landscape with a herb seeker 1900

Adolf Chwala (born April 4, 1836 in Prague , † March 14, 1900 in Vienna ) was a Czech landscape painter.

Born the son of a hatter, Chwala studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 1851 . He then studied in the years 1854–1855 in the landscape painting school with Maximilian Joseph Haushofer . In 1864 he moved to Vienna, where he married Josefa Procházková in 1871. He became the father of eight children, of whom Fritz and Leopoldine Emilie showed a talent for painting and received their first painting lessons in his studio. In the years 1885–1898 Chwala was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

He exhibited his works in the Kunstverein für Böhmen (1856–1862, 1888–1889) and since 1876 at the annual exhibitions in the Vienna Künstlerhaus and from 1881 to 1896 in the Austrian Art Association. He also took part in the national exhibition in 1891.

literature

• Leubnerová Šárka: Adolf Chwala (1836–1900). Národní galerie v Praze 2011, ISBN 978-80-7035-485-8 .
• Blažíčková-Horová Naděžda: 19th-Century Art in Bohemia (1790–1910). Painting, Sculpture, decorative arts, National gallery, Prague 2009, ISBN 978-80-7035-426-1 .
• Chwala, Adolf . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 555 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Chwala, Adolf. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 170 ( archive.org ).

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