Alois Greil
Alois Greil (born March 27, 1841 in Linz , † October 12, 1902 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and illustrator.
Life
Greil came from a Tyrolean family of artists. He was sponsored by Adalbert Stifter and in 1857 received a scholarship for the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He studied there with Christian Ruben and devoted himself primarily to history painting . In 1867 he returned to Linz, but lived in Stuttgart in 1868/69 and in Vienna from 1873. He watercolored rural motifs and landscapes and painted genre pictures . In his early work he was influenced by the work of Peter Fendi and his students; in its maturity phase around 1870 his oeuvre followed the style of Moritz von Schwind and Carl Spitzweg , including that of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . From 1878 until after 1885 he was President of the Albrecht Dürer Bund (Society of Academics). From 1870 to 1880 he worked as an illustrator for Die Gartenlaube . He also illustrated the Neue Illustrierte Zeitung , the Brockhaus Encyclopedia and numerous complete editions of poetic works, for example by Ludwig Anzengruber , Eduard von Bauernfeld , Franz Grillparzer , Robert Hamerling , Peter Rosegger , Adalbert Stifter and Johann Nepomuk Vogl .
literature
- Greil, Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 55.
- Leo Grünstein : Greil, Alois . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 584 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alois Greil in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Greil, Alois |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1841 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |
DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1902 |
Place of death | Vienna |