Carl Schindler (painter)

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Carl Schindler

Carl Schindler (born October 23, 1821 in Vienna , † August 22, 1842 in Laab im Walde , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian painter of the military genre (therefore sometimes called "Soldier Schindler") at the time of the Biedermeier period .

Life

Carl Schindler was born in the former Viennese suburb of Laimgrube and was the son of Johann Josef Schindler , from whom he received his first training and to whom he owed his interest in the representation of military topics.

The Sentinel calling into the rifle (1839)

From 1836 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Karl Gsellhofer and Leopold Kupelwieser and in 1837 became a private student of Peter Fendi , with whom he was friends. Fendi he also received significant artistic inspiration, as by the French military signatories concerns, Charlet, Lami and Raffet. In 1839 Schindler had his first academic exhibition. Because of serious health problems, he had to interrupt his studies several times. He tried to cure his ailments in the former cold water sanatorium (today the monastery of the Sisters of Mercy) in Laab im Walde. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis just before the age of 21 in Laab im Walde .

Services

Carl Schindler had an extraordinary talent for watercolor painting and also shared his father's predilection for depicting the life of a soldier. Despite his early death, Schindler's watercolors had a great influence on Johann Friedrich Treml and August von Pettenkofen . His works were both ironic caricatures of soldiers' daily lives and serious military genre . Schindler attempted a connection between the military and the bourgeois or peasant genre.

Works

  • Illustrations of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army through all branches of service (drawings for the lithography series published by LT Neumann, 1845), 1838
  • The Recruitment (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), 1838, oil on panel
  • The sentry, calling into the rifle (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, inv. No. 2330), 1839, oil on panel, 43 × 35 cm
  • The war in three-dimensional representation (lithographic picture sheet published by M. Trentsensky), 1840
  • The Guard Post (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1840, oil on canvas, 45 × 36.5 cm
  • The Wedding Voyage (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1841, oil on canvas, 40 × 58 cm
  • The generous vineyard keeper ( St. Pölten , Museum Niederösterreich , Inv. No. 7514), 1841, watercolor, 24.7 × 31.7 cm

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Schindler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. "Sentry" was in Perchtoldsdorf. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . Week 26/2012 Local edition Mödling and Perchtoldsdorf.