Anton Schaller (painter, 1773)

Anton Ferdinand Schaller (born March 6, 1773 in Vienna ; † September 26, 1844 there ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Anton Schaller was the son of a white lathe operator from Waldmünchen in Bavaria at the kk Porcellan-Manufactur in Vienna. His younger brother was the sculptor Johann Schaller (1777–1842).

The profession of stoner was intended for Schaller . However, he turned more to art and from 1789 attended a course for handicrafts in decorative sculpture under the supervision of the Academy of Arts , which was led by Johann Baptist Hagenauer .

He then also came to the manufactory as an apprentice, where his drawing skills were promoted by the director Matthäus von Niedermayer. After winning a prize for an oil painting with a scene from Goethe's Iphigenie , Niedermayer commissioned him to carry out several historical paintings on porcelain plates based on ancient models and nature. In 1796 he became a blue painter and from 1801 to 1807 first figure painter at the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. Because of a nervous disorder, he could no longer work until 1818. From 1819 he became a proofreader at the academy's painting and sculpture school.

In addition to his professional work, he practiced intensively in drawing ancient scenes, descriptions of nature and anatomy. This zeal and his acquired knowledge brought him from 1831 the professorship of anatomy and elementary drawing at the academy. From then on he devoted himself to teaching and oil painting. The motifs of his pictures had religious, ancient or historical themes, with historical works being based on Heinrich Friedrich Füger .

Schaller was a real member of the Academy of Arts. Some of the essays on art he wrote have been published in multiple editions.

Schaller's sons were also artistically active in the family tradition: Eduard Schaller (1802–1848) became a history and church painter , Ludwig Schaller (1804–1865) became a sculptor.

literature

• Schaller, Anton. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexicon , Volume 15, Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1845, pp. 138-139 ( limited preview in Google book search)
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schaller, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, p. 92 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hyacinth Holland :  Schaller, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 558.
• Schaller, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 573 .
• S. Krasa-Florian:  Schaller, Anton Ferdinand. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 33.

Web links

• Anton Ferdinand Schaller in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna