Carl Lafite (painter)

Biedermeier house of the Lafite family in Vienna II., Kleine Sperlgasse 4

Carl Lafite (born June 4, 1830 in Vienna , † October 22, 1900 Vienna) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Carl Lafite, even in the case Charles or Karl Lafitte, also Laffite, was the son of after the French Revolution had fled from Bordeaux to Vienna Charles Lafite (* 1801, † 19 June 1877), tournament chess champion and French teacher at the Theresianum and younger brother of Ernst Lafite (1826–1885).

From 1848 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels and Franz Steinfeld . As early as 1849 he exhibited his landscape paintings in the academy exhibitions at St. Anna and from 1853 in the Austrian Art Association. In 1861 he was a founding member of the “Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna” and was honored on the marble plaque in the presidential room at the opening of the kk Künstlerhaus in 1868.

Lafite was a drawing teacher in aristocratic families, whose castles he brought into the picture. He was married to Helene Daumer from a German family of philosophers - known from the letters addressed to her about Kaspar Hauser . His son was the pianist and composer Carl Lafite (1872-1944).

Works

Franz Liszt gives a concert in the Buda Redoubt in front of the royal couple, 1873

Lafite later switched more and more from oil painting to watercolor . He painted studies of nature and mood pictures with symbolic content. He chose his motifs from trips to document Austria in its diversity of the Alps , the Danube and the Vienna Prater, and in Germany devoted himself to romantic motifs on the Rhine and Moselle.

Collections

• Vienna Museum
• Private ownership, Vienna

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Lafitte, Karl (in the article Ernst Lafitte) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 479 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Lafite, Karl. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 797 ( archive.org ).
• Lafite, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 205 .
• Rudolf Schmidt : The Viennese artist house. A chronicle 1861–1951. Society of Visual Artists Vienna, Vienna 1951, p. 147.
• Heinz Schöny: Lafite, Carl . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation . tape 4 : Knolz – Lan , 20th delivery. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, doi : 10.1553 / 0x002829d4 ( biographien.ac.at [PDF]).

Web links

Commons : Carl Lafite  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files