Alexander von Liezen-Mayer

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Alexander Liezen-Mayer, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1882
Alexander von Liezen-Mayer

Alexander von Liezen-Mayer (also Hungarian Liezen-Mayer Sándor ; born January 24, 1839 in Raab , † February 19, 1898 in Munich ) was an Austro-German painter .

Life

Liezen-Mayer first began as a room and decorative painter when an uncle noticed his talent and sent him to Vienna in 1855 to the Academy of Fine Arts . Here he was taught by Karl von Blaas and Johann Nepomuk Peter Geiger and introduced to historical painting. He then attended the Munich Academy and drew there after antiquity with Johann Georg Hiltensperger . He was a student at Hermann Anschütz's painting school and worked in Carl Theodor von Piloty 's studio from 1862 . In 1867 he left the academy to work as a portrait painter . His first large history painting showed Queen Maria of Hungary with her mother Elisabeth at the grave of Louis the Great in 1385 . In 1870 he went to Vienna, where he portrayed Emperor Franz Joseph I and several members of the aristocracy. In 1872 he came back to Munich. In October 1880 he accepted a call as director of the Stuttgart Art School , but returned to Munich in 1883, where he worked as a professor of history painting at the Art Academy until his death.

Gebhard Fugel , Michael Zeno Diemer , Otto Greiner , Fritz Kunz and Max Bernuth were among his students in Stuttgart and Munich .

Works

As motifs for his works, he chose themes from the history of his fatherland, in particular noble and beautiful women played a major role. He made portraits of his mother, his friend, the painter Alexander von Wagner , and in 1886 of Cardinal János Simor , Archbishop of Esztergom, among others . In 1872 he painted Imogen and Jachimo after Shakespeare's Cymbeline , scenes from Goethe's Faust and, in 1873, Elizabeth's signature of the death sentence of Maria Stuart . This was followed by three boxes for Joseph Victor von Scheffel's Ekkehard , 50 boxes for Goethe's Faust and 32 illustrations for Friedrich Schiller's Lied von der Glocke , which were widely distributed thanks to woodcuts in magnificent editions by the art publisher Theodor Stroefer .

Canonization of Elizabeth of Hungary in 1235

In 1865 he received first prize in an academic sketch competition for the painting canonization of Landgrave Elisabeth of Thuringia . Together with Alexander von Wagner he had made a picture panel for the dining room of a Russian prince, which showed the return from the hunt . He received a lot of applause for the picture of Maria Theresa in the garden at Schönbrunn , which shows the queen laying the child of a poor, sick woman on her breast and breastfeeding.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Misc. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . June 16, 1883, p. 214, accessed on December 18, 2012 ( digital.zlb.de "The director of the art school in Stuttgart, von Liezen-Mayer, is granted the requested dismissal ...").
personal data
SURNAME Liezen-Mayer, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Litzenmayer, Alexander von; Liezen-Mayer, Sándor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Raab
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1898
Place of death Munich