August Pezzey the Younger
August Pezzey (born September 2, 1875 in Innsbruck ; † November 4, 1904 there ) was an Austrian painter .
Life
He was the son of the Ladin church painter of the same name August Pezzey the Elder (sometimes also: Arthur Pezzei, August 27, 1847 in Wengen near Bruneck , † July 12, 1915 in Vienna ) and his wife Agnes nee. Frech († April 29, 1901 in Munich ; age: 68 [sic!]). His brother Arthur Pezzey was born on June 4, 1879, began his career as an actor at the Schillertheater in Berlin and later worked at the Theater an der Wien and under Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .
Pezzey junior spent his youth. in Innsbruck. Since his artistic disposition soon became apparent, his parents let him attend the Imperial and Royal State Trade School, where mainly Professors Deininger , Josef Tapper (1854–1906), Heinrich Fuss (1845–1913) and Ruf directed his training. After attending the trade school, Pezzey studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he delivered the first samples of his skills to Professor Otto Seitz . He was soon able to finance his living by selling his paintings, and a landscape grant helped him over the first financial difficulties. After studying with Franz von Defregger for some time , after the death of his mother in April 1900 he moved back to Innsbruck, where he developed a rich artistic activity and presented his works to the public in the shop windows of art dealers. His customers included influential personalities, among them Archduke Eugen and Prince Hohenlohe, for whom he painted the interior of the court church . Pezzey also made a name for himself as an illustrator. His illustrations of the novel "Frau Hitt" by Franz Dolliner (1867–1911) are well known. As a person, Pezzey was nervous, easily irritable, and therefore often quick-tempered, but just as quickly good-natured and forgiving.
The tragic death of Pezzey
On the night of November 3rd to 4th, 1904, the culmination of the disputes over the opening of the Italian law faculty (and probably also due to the planned closure of the lectures held in Italian by the literary historian Arturo Farinelli ) between German national and Italian students occurred in Innsbruck armed conflict, also known as Fatti di Innsbruck (Eng. The events of Innsbruck). When the military intervened at around two o'clock in the morning at the request of the governor Erwin von Schwartzenau , Pezzey was killed on his back by a bayonet blow from an Austro-Hungarian Kaiserjäger . The immediate investigation into the incident resulted in the perpetrator being Luigi Minotti , a Borgo- born subordinate of the 13th Company of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger Regiment garrisoned in Innsbruck . Minotti stated to superiors that when Pezzey bent down to his dog (nickname: Satan ), he would have taken this as resistance and struck with the bayonet.
Pezzey was the only person killed in the riot, although he was only a spectator himself. Nevertheless, he was hailed afterwards as a martyr for the German cause; about 30,000 people attended his funeral on September 6th at the Westfriedhof . Pezzey was given a grave of honor, and the German-free mayor Wilhelm Greil (1850–1928) gave a fiery speech at the funeral:
“August Pezzey! We all, indeed the entire population of the core German city of Innsbruck, weep and mourn at your grave. You were granted a wonderfully beautiful death in the field of honor for the German people. You have always been a free German man through and through. In the fight against cheeky acts of violence you breathed out your life as a martyr for the German cause, but not only your young, flourishing life, also your great talent and your enormous artistic genius you enthusiastically sacrificed on the altar of the German people. "
Personally still monopolizing forming the following after Greil speech was the Pan-German for MPs Imperial Council for Bohemia Anton Schalk (1868-1951), who according to it from the grave Pezzeys call out : It's a lie when the emperor is reported to be the excitement of the Tyrolean an artificial one, because for the Tyrolean national struggle, national honor, was always sacred .
Afterlife
August Pezzeys is buried at the municipal cemetery (Westfriedhof) in the 55th arcade. A death mask was removed from his body. The academic painter Josef Durst drew the deceased on the death bed. The drawing is life-size and was reproduced by the local photographer Dornach.
"Der Scherer" published a special issue in his memory, entitled "German Blood" and containing five reproductions of Pezzey's pictures. The "youth" also remembered the deceased with an extra number.
On November 27, 1904, an exhibition was opened in Innsbruck in which around 200 works of art by Pezzey were shown.
The bankruptcy opened in May 1905 over Pezzey's estate was declared over on January 9, 1906.
The name of the artist was also mentioned in the Rutthofer murder trial, which aroused the hearts of Innsbruck residents in September 1906. He is said to have been one of the numerous lovers of Luise Rutthofer, who was accused of spousal murder.
plant
August Pezzey has left a large number of pictures in the 10 years of his work. His style was influenced by Arnold Böcklin and Hans Makart . Contemporaries particularly emphasized two characteristics of the artist: his almost inexhaustible imagination and his rich, confident sense of color, which, however, if it was too unbridled, also aroused opposition from the Innsbruck audience. “Pezzey thought in colors”, judged one columnist, “his pictures were forced into his glowing imagination, so that the brush could not work fast enough to capture everything that gave birth to his imagination; hence this amount of unfinished sketches, unfinished on the canvas, but already completely finished in the imagination. "Critics also criticized" a certain uncertainty in the drawing, especially of the nude, and the careless handling of the figures. "
Pezzey's most real area was his fairy tale pictures, also historical subjects, which offered him the opportunity to unfold fantastic splendor. The artistic development that he has taken in his short life can best be traced in his portraits. The large number of portrait sketches he made during his artistic career shows how seriously he strived forward in this regard.
When Pezzey died his art was not completed. With the versatility of his talent, a lot would have been possible.
Works that were discussed in the daily press during the artist's lifetime:
Struggle of love or the struggle of two centaurs; Harun al Rashid; Madonna; Portrait of the composer P. Hartmann v. At the Lan; Spanish Society in the Park; Lebenberg Castle near Meran, Im Kampfe; There you are now, Countess; Anacreon's tomb; Alpine lake; At the potion; The grave; Evening by the sea; Evening atmosphere; The King of Thule; Forst Castle near Meran.
Works discussed and mentioned posthumously:
Dutch family at dessert (Pezzey's last major work); Nymphenburg; Tomb of Adonis; Mythenheim; Castle fire; Late autumn (which the artist created in the mood of the poem of the same name by Adolf Pichler ); The struggle for love; The dying Roland; Frog prince; Miracle brook; Ekkehard; Nathan the wise; Decorative design; Simeon; Triumphal procession of Titus in Jerusalem; Nude studies; Cycle of opera scenes (unfinished); Night triumphal procession with green and red torch light; Three Peaks; Portraits of a blond young man, mother and brother Arthur; The girl by the brook; The sleeping Roland; Erlkönig, A deep, cool grave; At the Busento; Triumphal procession of Hannibal; Pictures in sketchbook; Moses in the rush basket; Gracefulness; Nathan the wise; Santuzza; Peter; Herodias; On the palm beach; At Taranto; Male Nude Study; In the church; Decoration study; Homage; Vanity; Naked truth; Kidnapping; Nativity scene; Ghost tower; At the Krystallsee; From Schönna; Landscape; Escape from Egypt; Crystal grotto; Entombment; Semiramis; Nile Festival; The sin.
literature
- E (rich) Egg : Pezzey, August d. J .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 22.
- Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat: Tyrol Lexicon. A reference work about people and places in the state of Tyrol . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4210-2 , p. 419
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ E (rich) Egg : Pezzey, August d. Ä. (1847-1915), painter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 22.
- ↑ Death notice (...). In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 100/1901 (Volume XLVIII), May 2, 1901, p. 15, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Directory of those born in June. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 169/1879 (XXLVI. Volume), July 25, 1879, p. 5 (unpaginated) middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten August 4, 1903, November 18, 1904
- ^ Franz Dolliner, August Pezzey (Ill.): Frau Hitt. Novel with use of legends . Wagner, Innsbruck 1904. (Online at ALO ).
- ^ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, December 6, 1904
- ^ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, December 3, 1904
- ↑ German blood flowed !. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 252/1906 (1st volume), November 4, 1904, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ The events in Innsbruck. The admission of the subjugator Minotti. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 311/1904 (XXXVIIIth year), November 9, 1904, p. 3, left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ The events in Innsbruck. (...) The death of the painter Pezzey. In: Moravian-Silesian Press. Independent political newspaper for the entire interests of town and country , No. 91/1904 (XXI. Volume), November 12, 1904, p. 1, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b The events in Innsbruck. (...) Pezzey's funeral. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 254/1906 (1st volume), November 7, 1904, p. 4 center. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 2, 1905
- ^ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 20, 1904
- ^ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 8, 1904
- ^ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 12, 1904
- ^ Pezzey exhibition. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 330/1904 (XXXVIIIth year), November 28, 1904, p. 10, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten , May 23, 1905, p. 3.
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten , January 13, 1906, p. 20.
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, September 26, 1906, p. 7, Wazlawik witness.
- ^ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, December 3, 1904
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, January 31, 1900, August 8, 1900, August 29, 1901 (February 27, 1904), March 5, 1902, May 3, 1902, May 14, 1902, August 9, 1902, February 9, 1903, May 7, 1903, June 18, 1903, July 8, 1903, June 17, 1904
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 8, 1904, December 3, 1904, July 13, 1905, July 18, 1905, December 10, 1907
Remarks
- ↑ It seems certain that August Pezzey Sr. died in the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital , not far from his last residence, Meiselstrasse 13, Vienna-Rudolfsheim , after a long illness and leaving a last will . The convocation ( call for creditors) in the official gazette of the Wiener Zeitung on November 20, 1915 (incorrectly) names July 9, 1914 as the date of death. Since the Salzburg Chronicle reports on Pezzey's death on July 15, 1915, the date of death is (also) 9. July 1915 in question. According to convocation, Pezzey sen. born on August 27, 1850. - See: Convocations of creditors and heirs (…) August Pezzey. In: Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 268/1915, November 20, 1915, p. 382, top left. (Online at ANNO ). , as well as painter August Pezzey †. In: Salzburger Chronik , Daily Edition, No. 158/1915 (1st year), July 15, 1915, p. 4, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pezzey, August the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pezzey, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1904 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |