Carlo Brioschi

Self-portrait (around 1850)

Carlo Brioschi: Old castle in the foothills of the Alps

Carlo Brioschi (born June 24, 1826 in Milan , † November 12, 1895 in Vienna ) was an Austrian theater painter.

life and work

Carlo Giovanni Aristide Brioschi was the son of the theater painter Giuseppe Brioschi († in Vienna 1856) and father of his sons Othmar Brioschi (1854–1912) and Anton Brioschi (1855–1920). In 1853 he worked in Paris . From 1856 to 1886 he was his father's successor as director of the painting studio at the Vienna Court Opera . He was a student of Leopold Kupelwieser , Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld (1787–1868) at the Vienna Academy .

Together with Johann Kautsky and Hermann Burghart , Carlo Brioschi founded the joint venture “Brioschi, Burghart and Kautsky, kuk Hoftheatermaler in Vienna”, in which, in addition to dozens of workers such as carpenters , locksmiths , mechanics and clerks , numerous painters such as Georg Janny , Konrad Petrides , Leopold Rothaug , Ferdinand Brunner and Alfons Mucha were active. The studio received orders at home and abroad and supplied, among others, houses in Germany, the Czech Republic, England and America ( Metropolitan Opera ). Among other things, the studio was responsible for the sets for the Vienna premiere of Tristan and Isolde .

Constantin von Wurzbach : Brioschi, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 146 ( digitized version ).
Hans Vollmer : Brioschi, Carlo . 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. 22 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Brioschi, Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 115.
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Volume 1: A-F. Self-published, Vienna 1972.
Robin Thurlow Lacy: Brioschi, Carlo . In: A biographical dictionary of scenographers. 500 BC to 1900 A. D . Greenwood Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-313-27429-0 , pp. 82-83 .