Emil Jakob Schindler

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Emil Jakob Schindler

Emil Jakob Schindler (born April 27, 1842 in Vienna , † August 9, 1892 in Westerland / Sylt ) was an Austrian landscape painter .

Life

Schindler came from a family of manufacturers that had lived in Lower Austria since the late 17th century . He was born as the son of business partner Jakob Schindler (1814–1846) and his wife Maria Penz (1816–1886) in what was then the Viennese suburb of Leopoldstadt No. 11 (today Obere Donaustraße 75).

Schindler was supposed to be pursuing a military career, but he chose the visual arts . In 1860 he entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and became a student of Albert Zimmermann . However, he only joined Zimmermann in terms of painting technique. He found his role models in the Dutch masters, such as Meindest Hobbema and Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael . One of Schindler's close friends was the Viennese "artist prince " Hans Makart , who had a great influence on Vienna towards the end of the 19th century, with whom he was able to live for a while. In 1873 Schindler traveled to Venice, in 1874 to Dalmatia and in 1875 to Holland.

On February 4, 1879, Schindler married the singer Anna Sofie Bergen (1857–1938), who was three months pregnant at the time of the wedding. The couple's financial circumstances were very tight; they had to share their apartment with a friend and fellow artist of Schindler, Julius Victor Berger . Even when the first daughter was born, who later became famous under the name Alma Mahler-Werfel , the couple was not yet able to leave their cramped living conditions. During Emil Jakob's long absence due to illness, Anna Schindler began a relationship with Berger. Margarethe Julie Schindler, who was born on August 16, 1880, was probably Berger's daughter.

In February 1881 Schindler won the Reichel Artist Prize endowed with 1,500 guilders , which ended the family's financial plight and made it possible to move to a larger apartment. Winning the Reichel Artist Prize was followed by a series of commissions and picture sales, which gradually enabled the family to achieve relative prosperity. From 1885 he spent the summer in Plankenberg Castle near Neulengbach . An artists' colony was established here , where Schindler taught (including Marie Egner ). In 1887 Schindler was commissioned by the Austrian Crown Prince to capture coastal towns in Dalmatia and Greece in ink drawings or watercolors . It was part of a large project called “ The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Images ” that the Crown Prince wanted to publish. The trip on behalf of the Crown Prince led to him being counted among the most important painters of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He was honored with numerous honors. In 1887 he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In the following year he was offered honorary membership of the Munich Academy. In 1891 Schindler received the Golden State Medal.

His private life was less happy. His wife had ended the liaison with Berger. However, she had a new love affair with Schindler's student and assistant Carl Moll , which secretly existed for several years. Alma Mahler-Werfel's biographer Oliver Hilmes sees the cause of the psychological disposition of the two Schindler daughters in this family life, which is characterized by secrecy and denial.

Schindler monument in Vienna's Stadtpark , unveiled on October 14, 1895
Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Emil Jakob Schindler

Emil Jakob Schindler died at the height of his success on August 9, 1892 as a result of a delayed appendicitis . His widow married Carl Moll (1861–1945) on November 3, 1895. Schindler received an honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery (group 14 A, number 51), which was designed by the sculptor Edmund Hellmer . He also created a marble monument for Schindler (1895) in Vienna's city park. Schindlergasse in Vienna- Währing was named after the artist as early as 1894 .

power

Schindler initially began in the manner of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller . In contrast to the romanticizing tendencies of contemporary landscape painting, Schindler strove for realistic representation. His poetic disposition, which led him to the atmospheric landscape at an early stage and quite independently of the French painters striving in the same direction, was first revealed in 1864 in a cycle of illustrations for von Zedlitz's idyll "Das Waldfräulein". For his landscapes, painted in oil, he initially selected the motifs with particular preference from the Prater, and later from Moravia , Hungary and Holland . Schindler's style of painting is commonly referred to as mood impressionism.

Works

The steamship station on the Danube opposite Kaisermühlen , around 1871–1872, Belvedere , Vienna
Forest path near Plankenberg in autumn
  • Boats on the Danube (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich , Inv. No. 5525), around 1870–72, oil on panel
  • Danube steam ships (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv.no.7517), 1871, oil on wood, 21.2 × 33.9 cm
  • The steamship station on the Danube opposite Kaisermühlen (Vienna, Belvedere , inv. No. 3338), around 1871–72, oil on canvas, 55 × 78.5 cm
  • Dutch Landscape - Canal in Amsterdam (Graz, Neue Galerie Graz ), around 1875–76, oil on panel, 44.8 × 65.2 cm
  • An der Thaya bei Lundenburg I (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.4586), 1877, oil on panel, 39.5 × 74 cm
  • Brandung (Linz, Schlossmuseum , Inv.No.G 2022), 1879, oil on canvas, 127 × 159 cm
  • Weißenkirchen (Linz, Castle Museum, inv.no. Ka 124), around 1879, oil on panel, 35 × 52 cm
  • Flower garden in Weißenkirchen (Linz, Castle Museum, inv.no.G 2023), 1879, oil on panel, 41.5 × 53 cm
  • Courtyard of a farmhouse in Weißenkirchen (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 7516), 1879, oil on canvas, 87 × 68.6 cm
  • Weiher in Atzgersdorf ( Wien Museum ), 1880, oil on canvas, 56 × 42 cm
  • Hackinger Au (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no. 4012), 1880, oil on canvas, 90 × 68 cm
  • Alter Hof in Weißenkirchen (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, Inv. No. 5717), around 1880, oil on canvas, 98 × 74 cm
  • Buchenwald in Goisern (Vienna Museum), 1884, oil on canvas, 43 × 56 cm
  • February mood - early spring in the Vienna Woods (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 5228), 1884, oil on canvas, 120 × 96 cm
  • Park landscape in Plankenberg - Flieder (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 3815), 1887, oil on panel, 49.5 × 66 cm
  • Bridge near Goisern (Vienna, Eisenberger Collection ), 1887, oil on canvas, 98 × 84 cm
  • Port of Ragusa in the evening mood in December (Wien Museum), 1889, oil on canvas, 75 × 45 cm
  • Forest path near Plankenberg in autumn (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, Inv. No. 1162), around 1889–90, oil on canvas, 59.3 × 42.6 cm
  • Coastal landscape from Dalmatia (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.5971), 1890, oil on panel, 71 × 106 cm
  • Adrialandschaft (Linz, Schlossmuseum, Inv.No.G 2024), 1890, oil on panel, 58.5 × 86 cm
  • Mühle in Plankenberg (Vienna Museum), 1890, oil on canvas, 105 × 82 cm
  • Pax - The Gravosa Cemetery near Ragusa (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 2548), 1891, oil on canvas, 207 × 271 cm
  • Poplar avenue after the thunderstorm (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 1218), 1892, oil on canvas

literature

Web links

Commons : Emil Jakob Schindler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ —N—:  Schindler memorial. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 11185/1895, October 14, 1895, p. 4, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  2. ↑ Hedwig Abraham (editor): Emil Jakob Schindler . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on November 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Emil Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1892
Place of death Westerland , Sylt