Eugene Jettel
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Richard Alfred Eugen Jettel or Eugène Jettel (born March 20, 1845 in Johnsdorf , Moravia , † August 27, 1901 in Lussingrande , Croatia ) was an Austrian painter .
Life
Richard Alfred Eugen Jettel was born the son of Ladislaus Hugo Jettel, an ironworks manager, and Sophie Jettel. After the mother's death, the family moved to Vienna .
In 1860 the 15-year-old half-orphan came to Albert Zimmermann's (1808-1888) class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , where he worked with Emil Jakob Schindler (1842-1892), Robert Russ (1847-1922) and Rudolf Ribarz (1848–1904) met and studied landscape painting until 1869 . Study trips took him to France , Holland , Italy , Istria and Hungary .
Because of a well-paid contract offered by the Austrian art dealer Charles Sedelmayer, who lived in Paris , Eugen Jettel moved to the French capital in 1875, where he led a successful life. He exhibited regularly between 1877 and 1881 in the Salon des Champs-Elysées and between 1890 and 1897 also in the Salon du Champ du Mars and he was nominated as a member of the World Exhibition Jury. As a special honor he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .
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Charles Sedelmayer had probably hoped that Eugen Jettel would marry his daughter. But when the latter from Vienna had Cilli Mailer, the daughter of a glove manufacturer, come and married, Sedelmayer cut the remuneration, so that the couple repeatedly ran into financial difficulties.
Eugen Jettel was the center of a circle of Austrian and German artists in Paris, but he also maintained contacts with French artists and made contact with the circle of the Barbizon School .
An inheritance gave him the means to return to Vienna in 1897, where he was also successful and Archduke Carl Stephan and his wife, Archduchess Maria Theresia , became his special supporters. During the last years of his life he traveled repeatedly to Istria , where he continued to devote himself to landscape painting.
Eugen Jettel died in Lussingrande before the start of a study trip with Archduke Carl Stephan , which was to take her to the Adriatic region, and was buried on September 1, 1901 in the St. Anna cemetery in Trieste . In 1916 the grave was abandoned.
Eugen Jettel's brother Wladimir Eugen Eduard Jettel also became a landscape painter. However, he received his training in Dresden .
Awards and memberships
Eugen Jettel was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus from 1868 . After returning to Vienna, however, he resigned and became a member of the Secession .
- 1874: 1st class gold medal in Munich
- 1877: Large gold medal in Vienna
- 1889: Gold medal in Paris
- 1893: Golden medal in Antwerp
- 1893: Gold Medal in Chicago
- 1897: Large gold medal in Dresden
- 1898: Knight of the French Legion of Honor
- 1932: Eugen-Jettel-Weg in Vienna- Hietzing
Works (selection)
- Evening in the harbor , 1882
- From the forest of Fontainbleau
- Cottage garden , 1892
- Tree landscape , around 1861
- The Hintersee near Berchtesgaden , 1864
- Ducks by the River , 1890
- River bank in Hungary , around 1871
- High mountain landscape , around 1868
- Dutch river landscape , 1883
- Dutch landscape with a plowing farmer , 1870
- Motif near Szered in Hungary , around 1871
- Prater area with bathers , around 1869
- Lakeshore , 1867
- Hungarian landscape , around 1871
- Torrent , 1860
- Village street in Brittany , around 1895
literature
- Zdrawka Ebenstein: Jettel, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 428 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Fuchs: Eugen Jettel. Self-published, Vienna 1975
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Jettel, Eugen . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 395 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Entry on Eugen Jettel in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Veronika Kotoučová: Eugen Jettel (1845-1901) , master's thesis
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jettel, Eugene |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jettel, Richard Alfred Eugen (full name); Jettel, Eugène |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1845 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rýmařov |
DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1901 |
Place of death | Veli Lošinj |