Ernst Berger (painter)

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Ernst Berger (born January 3, 1857 in Vienna , † April 30, 1919 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter and specialist writer.

Life

Ernst Berger was a brother of the ophthalmologist and peace activist Emil Berger (born August 1, 1855 in Vienna; † March 1926 Montreux) and of Betti Genendel Adler (July 12, 1859; † December 17, 1933), wife of Guido Adler (musicologist) .

He attended grammar school and business school and from 1874 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under August Eisenmenger and Hans Makart .

From 1882 Berger lived at Gartenstrasse (later Kaulbachstrasse ) 33 Munich , where he worked as a researcher and teacher in the history of painting technique at the Academy of Fine Arts . At the turn of the century he wrote several extensive studies on older and newer painting techniques, including editions of important art historical sources (see below).

In April 1919 he was arrested on the charge of having destroyed a notice of the Munich Soviet Republic , detained in the Luitpold-Gymnasium (Munich) and with the soldiers of the 8th Hussar Regiment Walter Hindorf and Fritz Linnenbrügger as well as seven members of the Thule Society at the " Munich hostage murder "shot.

photos

  • Oriental market at the Fondaco de'Turchi in Venice, exhibited in the Künstlerhaus Vienna in 1882
  • Sarah is buried in the Machpelah cave
  • Rebecca leaves her father's house
  • Dream of the Fountain of Youth, 1886, Melbourne Exhibition Silver Medal
  • Bairamraut, 1889.
  • Old Venetian well consecration 1892.
  • At home Lw whereabouts unknown (Photo: Bruckmann- Bildarchiv)

Publications

  • Sources and technique of fresco, oil and tempera painting in the Middle Ages from the Byzantine period up to and including the 'invention of oil painting' by the van Eyck brothers [...] . Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1897 (contributions to the history of the development of painting technique 3) https://archive.org/details/gri_33125003323520 2nd edition 1912 (contains, among other things, the Strasbourg painter's book (early German-language painting technique source), based on the lost Strasbourg manuscript)
  • Catechism of the theory of colors . Weber, Leipzig 1898, 326 pp.
  • Sources for painting technique during the Renaissance and its subsequent period (contributions to the history of the development of painting technique 4), Georg DW Callwey , Munich 1901 [1] (contains in the 3rd part an annotated edition of the Mayerne manuscript (British Library MS Sloane 2052) ( 1620-40), including Pictoria, sculptoria, tinctoria et quae subalternarum artium )
  • The painting technique of antiquity according to the sources, finds, chemical analyzes and own experiments, Georg DW Callwey , Munich 1904 (contributions to the history of the development of the painting technique 1/2).
  • Böcklins Technik, Callwey, Munich 1906
  • Handbook of color theory, Weber, Leipzig 1909
  • Fresco and sgraffito technology based on older and more recent sources (contributions ... 5), Callwey, Munich 1909
  • The wax painting of Apelles and his time. Callwey, Munich 1917
  • Obituary for Paul Heering

  • Beach beauty

  • Interior with a harem lady. India ink drawing on cardboard. 22 x 37.9 cm.

  • In the harem

  • Quiet hour

  • Oriental portrait

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Géza Elmér Gasparetz, The Technique of Ancient Wall Painting, January 1, 1912, in Hungarian Rundschau p. 170
  2. ^ Oriental market at the Fondaco de'Turchi in Venice
  3. ↑ 86. Dream of the fountain of youth
  4. ↑ Ernst Berger - 19th Century Paintings October 23, 2014 - Estimate: EUR 20,000 to EUR 25,000 - Dorotheum. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Pictorpedia ( Memento of 12 May 2012 at the Internet Archive ) The Technique of antiquity
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1919
Place of death Munich