August Eisenmenger

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August Eisenmenger
August Eisenmenger's grave

August Eisenmenger (born February 11, 1830 in Vienna ; † December 7, 1907 ibid) was an Austrian history and portrait painter in the era of the Ringstrasse and Wilhelminian style .

Life

Eisenmenger became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1845 and won first prize in drawing after just 14 days . His limited financial circumstances forced him to interrupt his attendance at the academy in the years after 1848. It was not until 1856 that he found a secure job when he became Carl Rahl's student and one of his best employees alongside Eduard Bitterlich and Christian Griepenkerl .

In 1863 he became a drawing teacher at the Protestant secondary school in Vienna, but continued painting alongside. Appointed professor at the academy in 1872, he also founded a private school for the training of younger talents in monumental painting, from which, for example, Rodolphe Ernst emerged . At the academy, for example, he had taught Hyacinth von Wieser (1848–1877) as well as Heinrich Hans Schlimarski (1859–1913) and Moritz Coschell (1872–1943).

Eisenmenger is buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery in Department 32 A, number 38 of the composers department .

In 1913 a street in Vienna- Döbling was named after him. This branched off at Weinberggasse 74, but was later integrated into the plant through expansion by Gräf & Stift and used as a works road.

In 1959, Eisenmengergasse in Vienna- Favoriten (10th district) was named after him.

plant

Ceiling of the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein

The most significant of his monumental works are

In 1878 he painted the curtain of the New Theater in Augsburg with a representation of Aesop , who recited his fables to the people from a fountain column. In 1881 he began decorating the stairwell in the Palace of Justice , and in 1885 he completed a cycle of frieze-like compositions in the conference room of the House of Representatives in the Reichsrat building , which depicts the emergence of the modern state from disordered circumstances .

literature

Web links

Commons : August Eisenmenger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . Volume 1, Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences , Graz / Cologne 1957, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 237.
  2. ^ Albrecht Weiland: The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and its grave monuments. Volume I , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3451208822 , p. 255 f.
  3. ↑ Suicide of the painter Schlimarski. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Afternoon Gazette, No. 17568/1913, July 21, 1913, p. 9 middle. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  4. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Prof. August Eisenmenger . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on May 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ Döblinger walk by the company Gräf & Stift (pdf)
  6. ↑ Gutmann Palace
  7. ↑ a b Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888–1890
personal data
SURNAME Eisenmenger, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1907
Place of death Vienna