Charles Wilda

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" Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss " ("The Ball"), 1906, painting by Charles Wilda (top right half of the picture: left the violinist Lanner, right the violinist Strauss)

Charles Wilda (born December 20, 1854 in Vienna as Karl Wilda ; † June 11, 1907 ibid) was an Austrian painter of Viennese orientalism .

Life

Charles Wilda, older brother of the painter Gottfried Wilda (1862–1922), studied as a pupil of the painter Leopold Carl Müller at the Vienna Academy . Together with Hans Makart and Leopold Müller, known as Egypt-Müller , he belongs to the center of Austrian oriental painting , a special topic within genre painting that he had got to know from Müller, who in turn learned to appreciate the oriental genre in Paris from the French painter Eugène Fromentin .

Wilda is considered to be the most independent of Müller's students. Müller wrote in his travel reports, "His [Wilda's] ... genre pictures are characterized by precise observation and elegant presentation, their colorism has more shine than power, more shimmer than flicker ...". The respected Viennese art critic Ludwig Hevesi judged him in 1903: "In more recent times, Müller has found an excellent successor in Karl Wilda ...".

Daily life in Cairo, where he often stayed, played the most important role in his pictures. His pictures have titles such as “The Snake Charmer” or “The Storyteller”. In 1892 he went on a trip to Egypt with the sculptor Arthur Strasser , who also found inspiration for his artistic work.

Since the 1880s he exhibited almost regularly at the Vienna Annual Exhibition , the Berlin International Art Exhibition , the Munich Annual Exhibition and the Dresden International Art Exhibition . At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 he was also represented with some of his works. His signature variants are CW , C. Wilda and Ch. Wilda .

The oriental painter Rudolf Swoboda , his former fellow student, painted another portrait of Wilda in the year of his death. The Künstlerhaus Wien honored him in the autumn exhibition of 1907 with a memorial exhibition in which 50 works, almost all of them in oil on canvas, were shown.

The tomb of Charles Wilda in the Vienna Central Cemetery, designed by Hella Unger, 1909

Wilda died in Vienna at the age of 52 and was buried in Vienna's Central Cemetery , Group 0, Row 1, No. 46. The grave monument from 1909 was created by Hella Unger .

Awards

  • 1895: "Kaiserpreis", endowed with 400 ducats (value 2009: around 29,000 euros)
  • 1898: Small gold state medal

For the imperial collections, Emperor Franz Joseph I acquired the oil painting “Arabian fortune teller” in 1895 for 3500 crowns and in 1900 the oil painting “Abessynian Madonna” for 5000 crowns.

Works

  • 1887: Street scene in Cairo , painting, exhibited: Vienna Annual Exhibition 1887
  • 1890: Dervishes praying on the occasion of an Arab festival , painting, exhibited: Vienna Annual Exhibition 1890
  • 1890: The money changer (Oriental Scene) , 1890, painting, exhibited: Berlin International Art Exhibition 1891
  • 1890: From Cairo. , Painting, exhibited: Munich Annual Exhibition 1890
  • 1894: Arab fortune teller , painting, exhibited: Munich annual exhibition 1894, Vienna annual exhibition 1895, Berlin international art exhibition 1896
  • 1894: Beiram , painting, exhibited: Vienna International Art Exhibition 1894, illustration in the catalog
  • 1897: Milk seller in Cairo , painting, exhibited: Dresden International Art Exhibition 1897
  • 1898: In front of the coffee house , painting, exhibited: Vienna Annual Exhibition 1898
  • 1898: Sudanese dancer , painting, exhibited: Vienna Annual Exhibition 1898
  • 1900: The carpet weaver , watercolor on paper, dimensions: 19.2 × 24.8 cm
  • 1906: Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss , painting

literature

  • Catalog of the autumn exhibition and Charles Wilda memorial exhibition: Vienna, November 10, 1907 in the Künstlerhaus. Vienna. Publishing house of the cooperative of visual artists Vienna, Vienna 1907.
  • Herbert Zemen: The oriental painter Charles Wilda, 1854-1907. Materials on biography . Private print, Vienna 2012.

Web links

Commons : Charles Wilda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Leitzke: The image of the Orient in French painting from Napoleon's Egypt campaign to the Franco-German War. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-8288-8267-6 , page 89 , preview on Google books.
  2. ^ Gerbert Frodl, Klaus Albrecht Schröder (ed.): Viennese Biedermeier: Painting between the Congress of Vienna and Revolution. Prestel, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7913-1264-2 , page 67. (Exhibition catalog, Kunstforum der Bank Austria, Vienna, from March 31 to June 27, 1993).
  3. ^ Ludwig Hevesi: Austrian art in the 19th century. Seemann, Leipzig, 1903, Part Two: 1848–1900, p. 212.
  4. ^ Gerbert Frodl, Hermann Fillitz: History of the fine arts in Austria: 19th century. Prestel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2524-8 , page 317.
  5. ^ Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters works of the nineteenth century: Contribution to art history. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden. Volume 2, 1898, p. 1018 ( archive.org)
  6. ^ Charles Wilda (1854-1907) , oil painting by Rudolf Swoboda, 60 × 47 cm, WV 1235. Illustration in: Herbert Zemen: Der Orientmaler Rudolf Swoboda, 1859-1914: Leben und Werk. Private printing, Vienna 2004, p. 270, fig. 61.
  7. ^ Herbert Zemen: The Orient painter Rudolf Swoboda, 1859-1914: Life and work. Private printing, Vienna 2004, p. 208.
  8. ↑ Detailed view  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.marschler.at  
  9. ↑ Markus Kristan: Joseph Urban  : the Viennese years of the Art Nouveau architect and illustrator, 1872 - 1911. Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-98650-4 , p. 62 . Previous winners were: Gustav Klimt 1890, Adolf Hirschl 1891, Julius Schmid 1892, Arthur Strasser 1893, Hans Bitterlich 1894 and Hans Temple 1896.
  10. ^ Catalog of the 26th annual exhibition in Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Lothringerstrasse 9. Verlag der Genossenschaft der Bildenden Künstler Wien, Vienna 1899, pp. 18–19.
  11. ^ Wladimir Aichelburg: Das Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861–2001. Volume 1: The artists' cooperative and its rivals Secession and Hagenbund. Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85437-189-6 , p. 207.
  12. ↑ Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of works of art of all nations in the Königigl. Glaspalaste 1890. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1890, No. 1383
  13. ^ Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of works of art of all nations in the Kgl. Glaspalaste 1894. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1894, No. 1133
  14. ↑ Christies
personal data
SURNAME Wilda, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilda, Karl (real name); Wilda, Ch.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter of orientalism
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1907
Place of death Vienna