Eduard Ritter

Male portrait

The Lumberjack

Eduard Ritter (* 28. September 1808 in Wieden ; † 5. September 1853 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter of the Biedermeier .

Life

According to a private family chronicle, Eduard Ritter was born in Haus Wieden 210 on September 28, 1808. He attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1829-1834 . So he studied at the same time with Josef Danhauser , Peter Fendi and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller . From 1830 he exhibited regularly at the academy, where he also became a member in 1848. From 1851 he also exhibited in the Austrian Art Association and in the Künstlerhaus Vienna .

Act

Ritter was very successful in his day. He not only created landscapes in oil and watercolor , but also portraits and genre scenes that were influenced by 17th century Dutch painting, such as Adriaen van Ostade . He was able to study these artists in detail in the holdings of the Vienna Academy. Ritter painted particularly peasant and rural scenes that like to have an anecdotal or narrative character. This makes him one of the Austrian Biedermeier painters who were committed to realistic genre painting. In contrast to his colleagues, who advocated the study of nature, Ritter started out more from the pictorial inventions and compositions of the old Dutch.

Works (selection)

• Portrait of a Young Man (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), 1835, oil on canvas
• The farmhouse parlor (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich , inv.no.548), 1838, oil on cardboard, 48.4 × 63.2 cm
• The Lumberjack (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), around 1840, oil on canvas, 79.5 × 63 cm
• View of Gutenstein (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 1961), 1846, oil on canvas

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Ritter, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 179–181 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Vallentin:  Knight, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 403.
• Ritter, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 385 .
• MS Habsburg-Lothringen:  Knight Eduard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 26, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957–2013, p. 177.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Ritter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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