Ernst Lafite
Ernst Lafite (born August 11, 1826 in Vienna ; † October 29, 1885 there ) was an Austrian painter .
Life
Lafite, also spelled Laffite, was the son of Charles Lafite (* 1801 - 19 June 1877), who fled Bordeaux to Vienna after the French Revolution , a tournament chess master and French teacher at the Theresianum in Vienna and Carl Lafite's older brother (1830 -1900). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Franz Schrotzberg (1811–1889) and exhibited from 1845: Academy Exhibition on St. Anna , in the Austrian Art Association from 1851, Historical Art Exhibition 1877. In 1861 he was a founding member of the Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna and was honored on the marble plaque in the presidential room at the opening of the kk Künstlerhaus in 1868. He was a portraitist and also painted studies of rural life.
The Viennese art critic Ludwig Hevesi considers him the successor of Franz Schrotzberg.
Works
Portraits, especially of women and girls; Genre pictures: tinker, field hunter; Portraits, for example, of Mayor Seiller , Count Laval-Nugent , engraver Steinschneider , Th. And Joseph Radnitzky, Karl Fürst Auersperg , Miklós Ybl , double portrait of his parents, self-portrait.
Collections
Vienna Museum , Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Historical Picture Gallery Budapest, Parliament in Vienna.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Lafitte, Ernst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 479 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Lafite, Ernst. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 797 ( archive.org ).
- Lafite, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 205 .
- Rudolf Schmidt : The Viennese artist house. A chronicle 1861–1951. Society of Visual Artists Vienna, Vienna 1951, p. 91.
- Heinz Schöny: Lafite, Carl . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation . tape 4 : Knolz – Lan , 20th delivery. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, doi : 10.1553 / 0x002829d6 ( biographien.ac.at [PDF]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Hevesi: Austrian art in the 19th century. Seemann, Leipzig, 1903, Part Two : 1848–1900. P. 198.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lafite, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laffite, Ernst; Lafitte, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1885 |
| Place of death | Vienna |