Adolf Theer

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Adolf Theer (born May 2, 1811 in Johannesberg ; † April 23, 1868 in Vienna ; also Adolph Theer ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer .

Life

Adolf Theer's parents were the gemstone cutter Joseph Theer and the embroiderer Thekla Theer . His older brother Robert Theer and younger brother Albert Theer also became painters. The Theer family moved from Johannesberg in Silesia to the capital Vienna in 1820 .

From 1827 to 1830 Adolf Theer trained as an engraver at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . From 1832 he learned history drawing there. From 1832 to 1848 he was one of the artists whose work was most frequently seen at the Academy's annual exhibitions. In January 1852 the Austrian Art Association showed works by Adolf Theer. His customers came mainly from the upper middle class.

He died of gout at the age of 56 .

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Portrait of a cadet "ex propriis" of the Imperial and Royal Infantry by Adolf Theer, watercolor on paper (1844)

Adolf tar acted as a watercolorist who are already on the beginning of his career miniature - Portraiture specialized. He also worked as a copyist of paintings by Caravaggio , Domenichino , Thomas Lawrence , Murillo , Raffael and Philip van Dijk, among others . As a lithographer, Theer created portraits of personalities such as the doctor Karl Folwarczny , the actress Luise Neumann and the Duke of Reichstadt as a child.

He also worked a lot as an illustrator of paperbacks and almanacs , for example for Johann Gabriel Seidl's Aurora and Gedenke mein and Ignaz Franz Castelli's homage to women . In his illustrations he created especially schematic and expressionless depictions of women.

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Theer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e R. Keil:  Theer, Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 288.
  2. ^ Adolf Kettner: The Theer family of artists . In: Journal for the history and cultural history of Austrian Silesia . 6th year, no. 3/4 , 1911, p. 97 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed on March 19, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c Constantin von Wurzbach : Theer, Adolph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 44th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1882, pp. 194–196 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Directory of the deceased in Vienna. From April 23. In:  Fremd-Blatt , April 24, 1868, p. 10 (online at ANNO )Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fdb
personal data
SURNAME Theer, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theer, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesberg
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1868
Place of death Vienna