Alois Greil

Alois Greil (born March 27, 1841 in Linz , † October 12, 1902 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and illustrator.

Life

Sixteenth-century costumes , illustration for the Brockhaus Encyclopedia

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 .

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 ).

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personal data
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