Edmund von Wörndle
Edmund von Wörndle zu Adelsfried und Weiherburg (born July 28, 1827 in Vienna , † August 3, 1906 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian landscape painter . He is considered the last important representative of Romantic painting in Tyrol .
Life
His father was the Viennese Hofburg building manager Johann von Wörndle, his grandfather the Landsturm commander Philipp von Wörndle (1755-1818). His son is the history painter Wilhelm von Wörndle (1863–1927), his brother the history painter August Wörndle von Adelsfried (1829–1902).
Together with his brother he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . Professors Franz Steinfeld and Thomas Ender taught him landscape painting. In 1855 he set out on an Austrian pilgrimage to Palestine and Syria. The sketches for the Palestine pictures were made on this trip. These pictures were published in Vienna and Innsbruck . From 1856 to 1859 he lived in the Austrian embassy in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome . At that time he received numerous orders from around the world. In 1859 he moved to Innsbruck, where he settled in his family's residence. At this time Wörndle married Sophie von Attlmeier. From 1880 to 1883, Wörndle created the Parzival cycle based on Wolframs von Eschenbach's heroic poem of the 13th century. The Parzival cycle was first exhibited in Merano in 1882. Together with his son Wilhelm, in 1896 he created eleven historical pictures about the life of Andreas Hofer for the Sacred Heart Memorial Chapel (1899) at the Sandhof in St. Leonhard in Passeier . These eleven pictures were his last great work. Wörndle founded the Association for Church Art and Crafts, in which he was a member of the board until 1905.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wörndle von Adelsfried, Edmund . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 57th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, pp. 222–224 ( digitized version ).
- Monika Oberhammer: The landscape painter Edmund von Wörndle zu Adelsfried (1827–1906). Dissertation. University of Innsbruck, 1969.
Web links
- Edmund von Wörndle in the directory of artistic, scientific and cultural-political bequests in Austria (onb.ac.at)
- Draft for the corridor design of the Ferdinandeum, around 1882/84 (?). Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- Works by Edmund Wörndle von Adelsfried on artnet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wörndle, Edmund von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wörndle zu Adelsfried und Weiherburg, Edmund von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1906 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |