Alfred Zoff
Alfred Zoff (born December 11, 1852 in Graz ; † August 12, 1927 there ) was an Austrian landscape painter .
Life
Alfred Zoff came from a Carinthian family and was born in Graz in 1852 as the son of a doctor. After graduating from high school, he initially studied medicine at the University of Graz and from 1871 was a member of the Graz fraternity Arminia . At an early age, Alfred Zoff devoted himself entirely to painting and began his training in 1869 at the State Art School ("State Drawing Academy") in Graz as a student of Hermann von Königsbrunn . In his painting class, in which Marie Egner also studied, he went on numerous study trips that took him to southern Styria and Carinthia. This was followed by studies at the Vienna Academy under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels from 1880 to 1884 and continued until the end of his studies in 1890 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber , where he became familiar with the Barbizon School .
Zoff's other places of work were Munich , Krems an der Donau and Vienna . From 1907 he was professor of landscape and still life painting at the Landeskunstschule in Graz and was considered an important representative of mood impressionism . The Styrian landscape ( e.g. Stainz / West Styria ) now became the main motif of his painting. After the death of his father (1882) and his mother's subsequent move to Klagenfurt, Alfred Zoff frequently stayed in Carinthia. Numerous works were created near Klagenfurt, Pörtschach and Krumpendorf . Several study trips took him to Italy (often to the coast of Liguria or Ischia ) and Holland , Belgium (1902) and Brittany (1908), where he painted small oil sketches in nature and then carried out his large oil paintings in the studio .
Alfred Zoff received numerous national and international awards, including the Silver State Medal at the International Jubilee Exhibition in Vienna (1888), the Archduke Carl Ludwig Medal (1899), the "Medaille de bronce" at the World Exhibition in Paris (1900) , the great one Golden State Medal for his painting "Rivierahafen" (1907) and the Golden State Medal in Graz (1910). He was a member of the Künstlerhaus (from 1883) and the Hagenbund (from 1900) and the Styrian Association of Visual Artists . In 1927, at the age of 75, the city of Graz granted him citizenship. His work found many buyers and collectors during his lifetime. He even received the highest recognition from the Viennese imperial court through the purchase of several works. His seascapes enjoyed particular popularity .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Zoff, Alfred . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1891, p. 235 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Martin Suppan (Ed.): Alfred Zoff, 1852 - 1927, an Austrian mood impressionist, Volume I, Landscapes, Marines, Life Review, color tables, trips and stays, etc., catalog raisonné, 344 pag. (Volume II with supplement to the catalog raisonné in preparation) , Vienna 1991, DNB 942180070 .
- Christa Steinle, Gudrun Danzer (eds.): Under the open sky. The Barbizon School and its Effect on Austrian Landscape Painting. Catalog. Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2000, DNB 959641777 .
- Manfred Srna (Ed.): Art trade, complete catalog of paintings, watercolors and drawings, Austrian paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01709-2 .
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 735-736.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 592.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zoff, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1927 |
| Place of death | Graz |