Albert Decker (painter)

Girl at the window

Albert Decker (born June 18, 1817 in Colmar , † July 7, 1871 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter, lithographer and actor.

Life

Albert Decker was the son of the portrait painter of French descent Johann Stephan Decker (1783–1844). His brothers Georg Decker (1818–1894) and Gabriel Decker (1821–1855) also became portrait painters.

Decker and his family came to Pest in 1818 and to Vienna in 1821. Like his brothers, he became a pupil of his father and worked as a portrait painter in Vienna. Since 1839 he took part in art exhibitions.

After his father's death in 1844, he became an actor at the Theater an der Wien , but continued to do portraiture and lithography.

In 1846 he created the portrait lithograph with the group picture of the officer corps of the Second Vienna Citizens' Regiment.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Decker, Albert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 193 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Tusch, Vienna 1974–1980.
• Decker, Albert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 520 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Volume 1: AF. Self-published, Vienna 1972.
• Heinz Schöny: Viennese artist ancestors. Genealogical data and lists of ancestors. Viennese painter. Volume 2: Biedermeier, Historicism, Impressionism. Self-published by the Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler". Vienna 1975, p. 15.

Web links

Commons : Albert Decker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Albert Decker in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Johann Stephan Decker in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna