Alois Schönn

The storming of the entrenched camp of Lodrone on May 22, 1848 , Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna

The volunteers say goodbye to Italy on April 3, 1848 , Vienna Museum

Market in Sarajevo

Alois Schönn (born March 11, 1826 in Vienna , † September 16, 1897 in Krumpendorf am Wörthersee , Carinthia ) was an Austrian history and genre painter . He specialized in oriental genre paintings.

Life

Alois Schönn was employed as a diurnist in the Ministry of Finance after attending lower secondary school and a year in business school . He took private lessons with Leander Russ , from 1841/42 he studied engraving and from 1845 to 1848 history painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Joseph von Führich and Eduard van der Nüll . He took part in the Italian campaign and painted his first battle pictures. In the following years he made numerous study trips to Hungary, France, Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Galicia and Holland. In 1861 he became a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna , in 1866 a member of the Vienna Academy and in 1877 honorary ao. Professor there. For his services at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 he was awarded the Franz Joseph Order .

In 1898 the Schönngasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

Hungarians returning home from the 1848/49 campaign , oil on wood, 1853, 51 × 66 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.
The storming of the entrenched camp in Lodrone on May 22, 1848 , oil on canvas, 1851, 150 × 200 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
The volunteers say goodbye to Italy on April 3, 1848 , Vienna Museum

Constantin von Wurzbach : Schönn, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 98-102 ( digitized version ).
Fritz Pollak : Schönn, Alois . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 158 f.
August Schaeffer von Wienwald , Alois Schönn , in: Reports and communications of the Altertums-Verein zu Wien , Volume 44 (1911), pp. 85–94
M. Haja: Schönn, Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 90 f. (Direct links on p. 90 , p. 91 ).

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personal data
SURNAME	Nice, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schönn, Friedrich Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1897
Place of death	Krumpendorf am Wörthersee , Carinthia