August Canzi
August Canzi (born February 22, 1808 in Baden near Vienna as Martin Kanz , † April 13, 1866 in Budapest ) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter as well as a lithographer and photographer .
Probably from 1829 onwards, Canzi began studying at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart . From 1833 to 1840 he stayed in Paris, where he became a student of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres by 1834 at the latest . Between 1833 and 1840 he took part in the Paris Salon . From 1840 Canzi lived in Vienna. From 1843 on, he regularly took part in the exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Pest (Művészeti Egyesület), where he moved around 1846. In 1862 he opened a photo studio there together with Jόzef Heller .
literature
- Károly Lyka : Canzi, August Alexius . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 532 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Theresa Wißmann: Canzi, August. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 41–43. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
Commons : August Canzi - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Canzi, August. Record at Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Canzi, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canzi, Agost Elek; Canzi, Agoston; Kanz, Martin (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden near Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1866 |
| Place of death | Budapest |