Edward Young (painter)

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Eduard "Edward" Young (born October 19, 1823 in Prague , † February 12, 1882 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter and draftsman.

Life

The portraitist, genre and landscape painter Eduard Young was the grandson of an English language teacher who married a woman from Munich in 1784. His father was the opera singer Benno Eduard Young, who died at the age of 34. He received his first training in Linz , but especially with Moritz Daffinger in Vienna. Young frequented aristocratic circles in Poland and Hungary, toured northern Italy and the Lyon area in France. In the 1850s he moved to Norway and Sweden, but above all he spent a few years at the court of Frederick VII , the King of Denmark, where he portrayed himself and his wife , Countess Danner , in an morganatic marriage . It is usually assumed that this acquaintance came about through Countess Danner's childhood friend, the famous dancer Lucile Grahn , who was married to Young's brother, the court opera singer Friedrich Young.

Young was appointed professor by Frederick VII and at the same time advanced to become a drawing teacher for the king and the countess. On February 9, 1857, he received the Ingenio et arti , a royal gold medal for services to art and science, and a lifelong pension. His portraits from the Danish time of Frederick VII and Countess Danner are also of interest as historical evidence of their style of clothing. He also took part in the decoration and furnishing of Jægerspris Castle around 1855.

In 1866 he settled permanently in Munich, where he was accepted into the studios of Karl Raupp and Carl Theodor von Piloty . Here he mainly created rural genre scenes, but also miniature portraits for King Ludwig II.

Works (selection)

Frederick VII with a Danish dog, 1853
Countess Danner, 1853

Painting:

  • Frederick VII (1855, Museum of National History in Frederiksborg Palace)

Miniatures:

  • Friedrich VII. (Around 1850, Jægerspris Castle)
  • Frederick VII (around 1850, The Royal Danish Collections)

Watercolors:

  • Frederik VII (1853, Frederiksborg Museum)
  • Countess Danner (1853, Frederiksborg Museum)
  • Countess Danner reads to Frederick VII in the tent at Skodsborg (1853, Jægerspris Castle)
  • Countess Danner (Jægerspris Castle)
  • Frederick VII's Danish Dog (Frederik VIIs danske hund) (Jægerspris Castle)
  • Badstuen in Frederiksborg (Jægerspris Slot)
  • A Moorish Girl (En maurisk pige) (Jægerspris Slot)

Colored drawings:

  • Frederick VII and Countess Danner in a sleigh (Jægerspris Castle)
  • Frederick VII in Scottish clothing (Jægerspris Castle)
  • Landscape (Jægerspris Castle)

Pencil drawings:

  • The painter Ole Peter Hansen Balling (Frederiksborg Museum)
  • Sketches from Switzerland (Skitser fra Schweiz) (Schloss Jægerspris)

literature

Web links

Commons : Edward Young  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Heller: "Young" - a family of artists and their descendants, in: Archive for Family Research, Volume 32, February 1966, Issue 21, pp. 421–425
  2. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Young, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1890, p. 55 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Young, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1882
Place of death Munich