Eduard Gurk

Eduard Gurk (born November 17, 1801 in Vienna , † March 31, 1841 in Jerusalem ) was an Austrian painter of the Biedermeier era.

Eduard Gurk (1801–1841), self-portrait

Life

St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, 1830, watercolor over lithograph

He first learned painting from his father and later studied at the Vienna Academy . He was promoted by Prince Metternich and finally appointed court chamber painter. As such, he accompanied the nobles of the Austrian hereditary monarchy , especially Archduke Ferdinand and Archduke Johann , and immortalized them in his works.

Eduard Gurk became famous as a landscape painter , lithographer , tempera painter (with works in Schenna Castle / South Tyrol) and engraver . It is above all series of images that shape Gurk's oeuvre. From 1830 he was in the service of Crown Prince Ferdinand (later Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria ), whom he accompanied on trips.

He died at the age of 39 while on a study tour in Jerusalem. His will provided for a poor sick foundation in the kk St. Rochus-Spitale in Vienna XIII ( Penzing ).

Works

• 1823 Vienna's finest buildings and monuments. Together with his father Josef Ignaz Gurk. Tranquillo Mollo, Vienna.
• 1823–1825 Vienna's surroundings - Drawn from nature and engraved by Joseph and Eduard Gurk. 65 plates (published by Tranquillo Mollo; reprint: Akad. Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1988).
• 1825–1830 Mahler's views from Carlsbad, Töplitz, Marienbad, Franzensbrunn and the surrounding area. Drawn from nature and engraved by Eduard Gurk in Vienna. Tranquillo Mollo, Vienna.
• 1829 2 illustrations (lithographs) for Joseph Kyselak's travel description 'Sketches of a foot trip through Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Berchtesgaden, Tyrol and Bavaria to Vienna' - along with a romantic, picturesque depiction of several knight's castles and their folk tales, mountainous areas and ice glaciers on this hike 1825 by Joseph Kyselak. Vienna, with Anton Pichler.
• 1829 Illustration of the latest adjustment of the Turkish army in Constantinople. Tranquillo Mollo, Vienna.
• 1830 memory of Vienna. Tranquillo Mollo, Vienna.
• 1830 memorial sheets for the coronation of HRH Archduke Crown Prince Ferdinand as King of Hungary in Pressburg the Elder. Sept. 28, 1830 , set of 36 sheets.
• 1833 Mahler's journey from Vienna to Maria Zell in Steyermark, shown in three day trips and taken from nature in 1833, accompanied by Sr. Majesty of the young King of Hungary, Ferdinand the Fifth, by Eduard Gurk. 40 watercolors, Museum Lower Austria. Facsimile, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-201-01660-8 .
• 1835 funeral of Franz I - drawings and unfinished watercolors, Bolzano.
• 1836 Ferdinand I's coronation as king in Prague - watercolors, drawings and unfinished watercolors, Bolzano.
• 1838 Ferdinand I's coronation trip to Italy - watercolors, drawings and unfinished watercolors, Bolzano.
• 1838 views of the city and state of Salzburg (pencil drawings)
• 1840 costumes and portraits; Motifs from Tyrol and other places in the Empire - watercolors, drawings and unfinished watercolors, Bolzano.
• 1841 Motifs from the Orient and Palestine - watercolors, drawings and unfinished watercolors, Bolzano.

Exhibitions

• Curator Wolfgang Krug: Picturesque pilgrimage to Mariazell in watercolors by Eduard Gurk. October 26, 2014 - March 22, 2015. Museum Lower Austria . In 1833 Gurk created a series of 40 watercolors with views of the scenic beauties along the pilgrimage route from Vienna to Mariazell as a commissioned work for Crown Prince Ferdinand .

Appreciation

Gurkgasse in Penzing (since 1859) and Eduard-Gurk-Park , also in Vienna's 14th district (since October 2004) , are named after him .

literature

• Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Supplementary volume 1 A – K. Vienna 1978.
• Walter Koschatzky: Biedermeier and Vormärz: the chamber painters Matthäus Loder (1781–1828) and Eduard Gurk (1801–1841); Watercolors, drawings and graphic works. May 10 - July 2, 1978 Albertina Graphic Collection.
• Exhibition catalog Beautiful old Salzburg. [with collabor. by Rupert Feuchtmüller… ed. by Johannes Neuhardt . Catalog article: E. Koppensteiner…]. - Salzburg, Dommuseum, 1989, p. 131 f.
• Gurk Eduard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 108 f. (Direct links on p. 108 , p. 109 ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Gurk, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1860, p. 37 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Gurk, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 182.
• Gurk, Eduard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 347-348 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Wiener Allgemeine Theaterzeitung. 1841, n.209 ff.
• Arthur Breicha-Vauthrier: Austria in the Levant. Herold Verlag, Vienna 1972, p. 25.
• Paolo Cont: L'imperial regio pittore di corte Eduard Gurk e Villa Lagarina. In: Quaderni del Borgoantico. 13, 2012, pp. 5-8 ( academia.edu ).
• Paolo Cont: La migrazione delle opere del pittore di Corte austriaco Eduard Gurk. In: Studi Trentini, Arte - Rivista della Società di Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche. Annata 92, 2013, No. 1, pp. 95-121 ( academia.edu ).
• Leo Andergassen (ed.): Eduard Gurk. Emperor Ferdinand I's coronation trips to Prague, Tyrol and Milan. Exhibition catalog of the Landesmuseum Schloss Tirol, Athesia Druck, Bozen 2013.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Gurk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on Eduard Gurk in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )