Eduard Veith

Self-portrait , around 1900

Eduard Veith (born March 30, 1858 in Neutitschein , Kronland Moravia , † March 18, 1925 in Vienna ) was an Austrian landscape , genre and portrait painter as well as a university teacher .

Madonna with Jesus surrounded by children , 1896

King's daughter , around 1900

A recovery , 1905

Life

Eduard Veith, son of the painter Julius Veith (1820–1887) and his wife Susanna Veith, b. Schleif (1827–1883), was a student of Ferdinand Laufberger at the kk Kunstgewerbeschule of the kk Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie and completed his training in Paris. Study trips took him to Italy , Belgium and Tunis .

From 1890 Veith was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus , later he also taught at the School of Applied Arts of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry and was appointed full professor in 1920. In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin .

Since 1911 he was married to Bertha Griesbeck (* 1872 in Augsburg, † 1952 in Vienna).

His honorary grave in the Döblinger Friedhof (group 32, row 1, no. 11) was designed by the sculptor Georg Leisek .

Student (selection)

Julius Smolik (1879-1948)

plant

Veith's work, predominantly in the Neo-Rococo style , follows the historicist, symbolist tradition of Hans Makart and Anselm Feuerbach and is part of the so-called "interior painting" of historicism .

Vienna
- Volkstheater : ceiling painting “Homage to Vindobona”, “Wreaths of the poet Ferdinand Raimund ” and stage curtain (1889).
- Dianabad : ceiling painting for the swimming pool.
- Ronacher : mural.
- Hofburg : Ceiling painting in the Maria-Theresien-Saal as the winner of the previous competition.
- Citizen theater : mural.
- Kärntner Straße 16: (former Hotel Meissl & Schadn ) facade mosaics.
Klagenfurt
- City theater : ceiling painting "Lindwurmsage" in the break room
Berlin
- State Opera Unter den Linden : Ceiling painting "Entry of the cheerful muses through the Brandenburg Gate".
Prague
- Deutsches Theater : stage curtain, wall and ceiling paintings.
Aussig
- City theater: ceiling paintings with symbolic figures “company”, “diligence”, “trade”, “traffic” and “industry” (1908/09).
Ostrau
- City theater: ceiling painting (1905/06).

as well as works for numerous other palaces.

Landscape watercolors
Portraits from Viennese society, such as Lotte Medelsky , Georg Reimers and others. a.

Awards

Reichel Prize
Archduke Carl Ludwig Medal
Kaiser Prize

at exhibitions

Antwerp (gold medal)
Berlin (gold medal)
Vienna (gold medal)
Paris (gold and bronze medal)

literature

Veith, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 181 .
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Volume 4, self-published, Vienna 1974.
Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 524.
Silvia Freimann: Eduard Veith (1858–1925). Studies of decorative monumental painting at the end of the 19th century. Dissertation, Salzburg 2006.
Alfred Weidinger: The King's Daughter - Sleeping Beauty. In: Agnes Husslein-Arco, Alfred Weidinger (Ed.): Sleeping Beauty. Belvedere, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-901508-83-7 , p. 44 f.
Silvia Freimann: Eduard Veith (1858–1925). (Annotated catalog of works with catalog of works) Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8325-2790-7 .
Robert Janás: Eduard Veith - Útěk zimy. Brno v minulosti a dnes, 26. Brno 2013, ISBN 978-80-86736-35-8 , pp. 127-143.
Marie Mzyková: Eduard Veith - dreams of happiness. Nový Jičin 2013, ISBN 978-80-260-4828-2 .

Web links

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

Literature by and about Eduard Veith in the catalog of the German National Library
Portrait of Eduard Veith and "Allegory of Abundance"

Individual evidence

↑ According to the birth register vademecum.archives.cz .
The year of birth 1856 given in many books is therefore incorrect.

personal data
SURNAME	Veith, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neutitschein
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1925
Place of death	Vienna

[1] According to the birth register vademecum.archives.cz .
The year of birth 1856 given in many books is therefore incorrect.