Alphons Leopold Mielich
Alphons (Alfons) Leopold Mielich (born January 27, 1863 in Klosterneuburg , † January 25, 1929 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian genre painter of Orientalism .
His father - he still called himself Carl Mielichhofer - worked at the kuk naval academy in Fiume ( Rijeka ), where he was professor of mathematics and shipbuilding. He and his wife Theresa had three sons: Sigmund, Alphons and Ludwig, of whom Alphons was born in Klosterneuburg in 1863.
Like his two brothers, Alphons attended the kuk military academy in Vienna. He became an artillery officer, but had to give up this job as a lieutenant due to illness.
For health reasons he spent some time in Egypt . There he painted his first pictures of the oriental milieu as an autodidact . Only later did he become a student of the mountain painter Anton Schrödl .
From 1889 he lived in Paris for three years . There he copied pictures of the Orient by other painters. Mielich also visited England , Spain and Algeria . After his stay in Paris, he settled in Vienna , but visited the countries of the Middle East several times . He showed the pictures he created there in salons in 1894, 1897 and 1898. Thus Mielich gradually became known as an oriental painter. On behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Mielich traveled to Jerusalem as the artistic companion of the orientalist Alois Musil and from there to Jordan in order to record the caliphate castles of the Umayyads in the desert of Arabia Petraea . Mielich cleaned and copied the frescoes that Musil had discovered .
For the Österreichischer Lloyd he designed many postcards with ship and seafaring motifs as well as several covers of advertising material for its ship services.
Some of his works came into the collections of Emperor Franz Joseph I and the Ministry of Education.
In 1912 he lived in Munich , but then moved to Salzburg.
literature
- Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Self-published, Vienna 1973, Volume 3, p. K50.
- Herbert Zemen: The oriental painter Alphons Mielich, 1863–1929. Materials on biography. Private print, Vienna 2013
- Mielichhofer, Alphons. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975,ISBN 3-7001-0128-7, p. 268 f. (Direct links on p. 268 , p. 269 ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mielich, Alphons Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mielich, Alphons; Mielichhofer, Alphons; Mielichhofer, Alphons Leopold; Mielich, Alfons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian genre painter of orientalism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klosterneuburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1929 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |