Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini

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Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini (born June 19, 1847 in Spalato , Dalmatia , † October 14, 1936 in Radebeul ) was an Austro-German history painter, restorer, photographer, royal Saxon councilor and art collector.

Life

"My garden plot Ritzschkegrund, taken in 1894". Photographed by Donadini.
View of the place of the later studio building, on the left the original building.
Donadini's grave in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

Donadini was born in Spalato / Dalmatia / Austria-Hungary in 1847 . 2020 the city name is Split / Republic of Croatia . His father Giovanni Battista Donadini came from Venice. He was a judicial officer in Split. His mother Rosa Donadini (née Locatello) came from Ancona .

Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini studies with a scholarship for "training as an artist" at the Academy of United Fine Arts in Vienna . He finished his studies in Vienna with Eduard Engerth and Christian Ruben with a diploma in history painting.

Then he moved his studies to Venice. There he met the painters Hans Makart and Heinrich Lossow , with whom he went to Munich. In 1872 he became a master student of Carl Theodor von Piloty , a well-known genre and history painter , at the Munich Academy .

In 1877 Donadini became a professor at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. Since he was dissatisfied with his work in Vienna, he switched to the professorship for figurative painting and the management of the studio for theater decoration at the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden, based on Antonsplatz . Under the protection of the Saxon regent couple, Donadini was a respected artist there for over 30 years.

Donadini created numerous monumental wall and ceiling paintings with mythological and historical themes for the Villa Bleyl, the Villa Eschebach and the Wettinersaal in the Dresden City Palace, most of which were destroyed in the Second World War. He restored numerous frescoes by Louis de Silvestre , Moritz von Schwind and Friedrich Preller the Elder in Dresden and Leipzig . In addition, Donadini wrote several works on Saxon art history.

The Councilor Donadini was a pioneer of photography, many of his glass negatives came into the possession of the German Photo Library of the Saxon State Library in the 1980s and 1990s .

In 1882 he bought a vineyard house in the Rietzschkegrund of Zitzschewig , a current district of Radebeul , as a summer residence and studio . In the following years he expanded the building with a studio building and a collection building. After his retirement in 1913, he settled there completely and only tolerated family visits from his son Carlo , since he and his wife Ida, nee. Schoch (born 1876) and daughters Ida (born 1881) and Karola had a falling out. His house became a museum-like repository for his ever-growing collections, one of which was the admiration for Napoleon.

On October 14, 1936, shortly before his 90th birthday, Donadini died in a Dresden clinic as a result of a stroke. He is buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden-Friedrichstadt.

Fonts

  • The golden book or accurate illustrations of the well-known excellent Saxon princes after Lucas Cranach etc. 1889

Awards

Donadini received several awards, including (as of 1919):

Donadini was also an honorary member of the Accademia di San Luca .

literature

  • Jens Bove (ed.): Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini: Photography in the royal Dresden 1881 to 1914 , Dresden 2010. ISBN 978-3938325773
  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .

Web links

Commons : Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Heinrich, SLUB Dresden Collections-German Photo Library-Photographers-Donadini
  2. ^ Gabriele Heinrich, SLUB Dresden Collections-German Photo Library-Photographers-Donadini
  3. ^ Gabriele Heinrich, SLUB Dresden Collections-German Photo Library-Photographers-Donadini
  4. ^ Address book Dresden und Vororte, 1919, p. 318.
personal data
SURNAME Donadini, Ermenegildo Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German painter, restorer and photographer, royal Saxon councilor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Split (Dalmatia)
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1936
Place of death Radebeul