Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels
Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels (born November 18, 1833 in Vienna , † January 22, 1913 in Berlin ) was an Austrian painter and important teacher of Austrian landscape painting . From 1872 to 1901 he held a professorship for landscape painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where he was rector from 1878 to 1880 and from 1897 to 1899.
Life
Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels was born in 1833 as the son of the philosopher Johann Peithner von Lichtenfels (1793–1866). Lichtenfels attended the Vienna Academy under Franz Steinfeld and Thomas Ender and stayed in Düsseldorf in 1857 and 1858 , where he mainly joined Karl Friedrich Lessing , but without being his direct student. During this time he was also a member of the local artists' association Malkasten . After his return to Vienna he took part in the campaign of 1859 as a lieutenant in the infantry . In 1871 he became a teacher and in 1872 professor of landscape painting at the Vienna Academy, where he took over the management of the school for landscape painting. In the years that followed, Peithner von Lichtenfels took his students to the Wachau several times , particularly to Weißenkirchen and Dürnstein . After an excursion that Peithner von Lichtenfels undertook with his students in 1888, the latter was a particularly popular place to study, which also led to the Wachau establishing itself as a landscape of painters. The landscape painting school of Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels finally produced the most important and most zealous painters in the Wachau. Lichtenfels pupils included Ferdinand Andri , Wilhelm Bernatzik , Eduard Zetsche , Heinrich Tomec , Hans Wilt , Johann Nepomuk Geller and Maximilian Suppantschitsch . Most of these artists remained artistically connected to the Wachau throughout their lives, and some even settled there. After retiring from the Vienna Academy in 1901, Lichtenfels stayed temporarily in Nuremberg and Berlin, where he died in 1913.
In the exhibition of the Austrian Art Association , Lichtenfels first appeared in 1854 with a part from Iffingen in South Tyrol , followed by depictions from Austrian and Bavarian mountains; Most of the time, however, he took his motifs from Lower Austria and liked to depict forest and swamp areas from the Lundenburg area (now Břeclav in the Czech Republic ). One of Lundenburg's motifs is in the Imperial Gallery in Vienna. Via pathetically heightened, detailed landscapes, Lichtenfels reached intimate natural excerpts and idyllic moods. He created oil , tempera and pastel pictures . His preferred technique, however, was a mixture of pen drawing with watercolor, which produced particularly fresh and delightful works. Lichtenfels works can be found in the most important Austrian painting collections today.
His daughter was the pianist, opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher Paula von Lichtenfels .
Works (selection)
Of his other works are to be mentioned:
- Motif near Pitten in Lower Austria
- Danube section near Weißenfels
- From the Quarnero
- The summit of Mount Etna , 1880
- The Dolomite group of the Schlern near Bozen (in the University of Vienna)
- On the coast of Istria , 1886
With a skillful, fluid technique, he combined poetic understanding and great power of mood. Lichtenfels, who painted in oil and watercolor , also did some etchings .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Lichtenfels, Eduard von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1866, p. 78 ( digitized version ).
- R. Schmidt: Peithner von Lichtenfels Eduard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 392 f. (Direct links on p. 392 , p. 393 ).
- Lichtenfels, Eduard Peithner from . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 336.
- Lichtenfels, Eduard Peithner, knight of . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 863 f.
- Wolfgang Krug: Wachau. Pictures from the Land of Romanticism , 2003
Web links
- Entry on Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 437
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Peithner von Lichtenfels, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1913 |
| Place of death | Berlin |