Anton Hansch

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Tomb of Anton Hansch at the Petersfriedhof Salzburg with portrait medallion by Anton Paul Wagner , 1877.
Anton Hansch, View into the Styrian Landltal, 1837, oil on canvas, 44.8 × 55.7 cm

Anton Hansch (born March 24, 1813 in Vienna , † December 8, 1876 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian landscape painter .

Life

Anton Hansch came from an old Viennese family and was born in what was then the Viennese suburb of Windmühle 87 of the Laimgrube parish (today Gumpendorfer Straße 26). He studied 1826-36 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under the landscape painter Josef Mössmer . Study trips, often together with his friend Friedrich Gauermann , took him to the Alpine region. In 1848 Hansch became a member of the Vienna Academy, in 1861 of the Künstlerhaus . In 1875 Hansch moved to Salzburg, where he died a year later. In honor of the artist in 1930 in Vienna- Hietzing the Hanschweg named.

power

Anton Hansch is the most important alpine and mountain painter in Austria in the second half of the 19th century. His pictures are mostly idealizing and heroic.

Works

  • Untersberg and Watzmann from the Salzach ( Salzburg , Museum Carolino Augusteum , inv. No. 114/50), 1850, oil on canvas
  • Unter den Linden - Evening Landscape (Vienna, Belvedere , Inv. No. 7), 1858, oil on canvas, 127 × 189 cm
  • Der Stubaiferner in Tirol (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 3084), around 1875, oil on canvas, 95 × 126 cm
  • The Großvenediger (Salzburg, Residenz Galerie , Inv. No. 414), oil on canvas, 76.4 × 105.4 cm
  • Melnik in the Maltatal in Carinthia (private property), oil on canvas, 73.5 × 105.5 cm

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personal data
SURNAME Hansch, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1876
Place of death Salzburg