Anton Hlavaček

Portrait from around 1910

Anton Hlaváček (born May 7, 1842 in Gaudenzdorf , today Vienna ; † January 16, 1926 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter with Czech ancestors.

Life

Memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Aichhorngasse 8

Anton Hlavaček (spr. Láwatschek) was born in the Viennese suburb of Gaudenzdorf, later part of Vienna's 12th district , as the son of a master weaver and learned the profession of a house painter and also painted pictures for sale. It was not until 1859, after he had been rejected twice by the Vienna Art Academy for alleged lack of talent , that he was accepted into the landscape painting class , which was then under Wilhelm Steinfeld's direction . He attended the academy until 1864, during which time he became friends with Eugen Jettel and Robert Russ.

From 1864 to 1869 he undertook a study trip through Germany with a state scholarship and then returned to Vienna. His first painting from the Vienna area was bought by the Association of Viennese Artists . Hlavaček received new impetus from the appointment of Albert Zimmermann as an academy professor.

The result of several study trips now followed: Motif from Gastein , mountainous landscape , morning on the Hintersee , exodus of the Burgrave of Rodenstein , from the Odenwald . All these pictures show his poetic observation of nature and fine execution.

In addition to small-format pictures, Hlavaček painted colossal paintings between 1874 and 1884, including the panorama of Vienna and its surroundings from the Nussberg near Nussdorf (for the stone hall of the Vienna City Hall ) and the old Danube bed in Vienna . More of his landscapes can be found in the Vienna City Hall Cellar . He created 40 wall paintings for the “ Tivoli ” establishment , and in 1887 two for the Natural History Museum Vienna .

From 1862 to 1873 Hlavaček was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . In 1906 he founded the Austrian Association of Artists together with the artists Jarl and Kupfer.

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  Lake Garda in the morning

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  Richterhöhe on Mönchsberg in Salzburg

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  Rainy mood over Igls

Honors

Bust of Fritz Hänlein

• 1922: Awarded the title of Citizen of the City of Vienna (May 12)
• 1925: On October 11th, the bust of Hlavaček created by Fritz Hänlein was unveiled in the wooden pavilion of the Tivoli dairy and is now in the Meidling District Museum .
• 1926: Meidlinger artist memorial stone. The obelisk created by Fritz Hänlein was unveiled on October 10th and bears medallion reliefs depicting the painter Anton Hlavaček, the musician Franz Josef Zierer and the writers Oskar Pach and Fritz Stüber-Gunther .
• 1930: Name of the Hlavacekweg in the Viennese district Baumgarten
• Honorary grave in the Döblinger Friedhof (group 30, row 7, number 10) in Vienna.

literature

• Hlavaček, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 156 .
• Hlavaček, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 61 .
• Hlavacek Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 341.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 206.

Web links

Commons : Anton Hlavaček  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Anton Hlavaček in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Literature by and about Anton Hlavaček in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professor Anton Hlavacek died. In:  Neue Freie Presse , January 17, 1926, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).
• Local. Personal memories of Professor Anton Hlavacek .. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 20, 1926, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
• Entry on Anton Hlavaček in the database of the state's memory of the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maximilian Kaiser: 16th annual exhibition of the Austrian Association of Artists. In: Agnes Husslein-Arco, Mathias Boeckl, Harald Krejci (eds.): Hagenbund. A European network of modernity (1900–1938). Exhibition cat. Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna 2014, p. 187.
2. ^ Deaths .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , January 19, 1926, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).