Ernestine von Kirchsberg
Ernestine von Kirchsberg (born August 12, 1857 in Verona , † October 8, 1924 in Graz ) was an Austrian landscape painter .
Ernestine von Kirchsberg was born in Verona on August 12, 1857. In Graz she attended the landscape drawing academy under Baron Hermann von Königsbrunn from 1873 and studied at the Vienna Academy from 1881 under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels , August Schäffer and Hugo Darnaut .
She received her decisive training primarily from Hugo Darnaut, one of the most important representatives of Viennese mood impressionism, which gave the decisive impetus for the development of her personal style. In Vienna she made friends with Marie Egner and Alfred Zoff , whom she later followed to Munich. In Munich she completed her training with the carpenter's student Adalbert Waagen (1833–1898) and with Alfred Zoff. In addition to the oil painting, she preferred the watercolor, in which she achieved great mastery and with which she was first known. In 1881 she exhibited for the first time in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Many of her watercolors and oil paintings were acquired by museums and private collectors during the artist's lifetime.
In 1893 a painting was awarded a prize at the world exhibition in Chicago . As a result, her works were in numerous exhibitions in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Prague, Graz, from where she undertook study trips to the Adriatic, Lower Styria, Carniola and South Tyrol. Ernestine von Kirchsberg died on October 8, 1924. Her grave is in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .
literature
- Manfred Srna (ed.), Art trade, complete catalog of paintings, watercolors and drawings, Austrian paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries , Graz (2009), ISBN 978-3-200-01709-2
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| SURNAME | Kirchsberg, Ernestine von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verona |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1924 |
| Place of death | Graz |