Antoni Lange (painter)

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Antoni Lange (* around 1779 in Vienna ; † 1844 in Lemberg ) was an Austrian painter, lithographer and set designer.

Life

Antoni Lange was the son of an actor from the Vienna Court Theater. He studied painting with Lorenz Adolf Schönberger (1768–1846). In 1810 he moved to Lemberg. For twenty years he worked as a stage designer in Jan Nepomucen Kamiński's theater. Lange created numerous landscape pictures in oil , gouache and watercolor with views from Eastern Galicia , such as Sbarasch , Olesko and Terebowlja , as well as romantic Alpine landscapes.

The albums “Collection of the most beautiful regions of Galicia” (1823), printed by the lithography company Piotr Piller, were created on the basis of Lange's pictures and drawings. And “Collection of Views of the Most Valuable Gardens in Poland” (1825/27).

Fourteen of his pictures adorned the rooms of the Lemberg town hall. The artist was also involved in the decoration of the city on the occasion of various celebrations, such as B. Commissioned visits by the emperor.

gallery

  • Castle
    in Pieskowa Skała

  • City on the riverside

  • Landscape with Fishermen

  • Spring landscape
    with a pond

  • View of the
    Janowiec castle ruins

literature

  • Jodlowska:  Long Antoni. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 446 f. (Direct links on p. 446 , p. 447 ).
  • Feliks Kopera: Dzieje Malarstwa w Polsce (History of Painting in Poland): Trzaska Evert i Michalski: Vol. 3, 1929, p. 23
  • Dmitrij Szelest: Lwowska Galeria Obrazów, malarstwo polskie (Lviv Picture Gallery), AURIGA, Warszawa 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Lange, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, lithographer and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1844
Place of death Lviv