Eduard Schaller

Portrait of Eduard Schaller, drawn by Leopold Pollack, Rome 1832

Eduard Schaller (* 1802 in Vienna ; † February 2, 1848 there ) was an Austrian history and church painter.

Life

Eduard Schaller was born in Vienna in 1802 as the son of the history painter Anton Schaller (1773–1844) into a family of artists. His uncle Johann Nepomuk Schaller (1777–1842) was a sculptor, his younger brother Ludwig (1804–1865) was also a sculptor.

Schaller received his first training from his father before he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where he became a student of Josef Redl and, from 1823, of his uncle Johann Schaller. At the academy he made friends with Leopold Schulz , Heinrich Schwemminger , Adam Brenner and Gebhard Flatz .

After completing his studies, he took a position as a drawing teacher in the Hungarian house of Prince von Auersperg and stayed with the family when they moved to Prague in 1828. In Prague he made the acquaintance of Joseph Führich and Leopold Pollak . Schaller stayed in the Auersperg house until 1831 and also accompanied the family on trips, around 1831 to Italy. Here he met Leopold Schulz in Rome, whom he followed to Munich from October 1832 until the summer of 1836. In Munich he continued his studies with Peter von Cornelius . In 1836 he went back to his hometown Vienna and settled in Josephstadt , where he died on February 2, 1848 after a two-month illness of "degeneration of the stomach".

Works

• Christ with the disciples at Emmaus. 1826
• Princesses Auersperg. Pencil drawing
• The Hungarians paid homage to Empress Maria Theresa in 1741. Watercolor, (Vienna, ÖNB)
• Abraham's encounter with the angels
• the legislation on Sinai
• St. Lawrence among the poor
• three angels entertained by Abraham
• Richard Löwenherz with Blondel on Dürenstein on the Danube
• the Count of Habsburg offering his horse to a priest
• King Enzio in dungeon
• like Leopold the Illustrious to Emperor Otto III, threatened by a bear while hunting. a hunting spear is enough
• three altarpieces ( Madonna, St. Anna and St. Wenceslaus ) for Prince v. Schwarzenberg
• On behalf of Emperor Ferdinand I , he created an altar painting for a mission church in Egypt.
• High altar picture of St. Wenceslas for the church in Neusattel , Bohemia, 1844.

literature

• Schaller, Eduard. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 15, Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1845, pp. 141–142 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Schaller, Eduard. In: Kunstblatt. Supplement to the Sunday papers. Vienna, April 30, 1848, pp. 25-27 (digitized from ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schaller, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, pp. 94–96 ( digitized version ).
• Hyacinth Holland :  Schaller, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 558 f.
• Schaller, Eduard. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 531 ( archive.org ).
• Schaller, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 573 .
• Schaller, Eduard . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 757 ( books.google.de - limited preview).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary: Deceased in Vienna, February 2nd. In: Wiener Zeitung. Vienna, February 8, 1848, p. 3 (digitized anno.onb.ac.at ).