Eugene Zardetti

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Eugen Zardetti on his Benz motor car
Boats on Lake Constance in stormy weather
Off the coast of Capri

Eugen Zardetti (born November 27, 1849 in Rorschach ; † February 21, 1926 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss naval and portrait painter and automobile pioneer.

Eugen Zardetti studied in Innsbruck, Geneva , Lucerne and Karlsruhe and from 1885 worked mainly in Bregenz , where he lived in the Villa Mirador , and from 1914 in Lucerne. During his studies in Innsbruck he joined the AV Austria Innsbruck in the ÖCV in 1866 .

One of Zardetti's interests was technology. He was the owner of the first industrially manufactured car in Austria, a three-wheeled Benz patent motor car with the chassis number 24, which he had converted into a four-wheel car in 1898. After Zardetti's death in 1926, this vehicle became the property of the Technical Museum in Vienna , where it is still located. Until 1896, Zardetti was the only car owner in Vorarlberg. The year he acquired his vehicle, 1893, he kept a motor vehicle diary that has been preserved. The diary was presented together with Zardetti's paintings in an exhibition in the Vorarlberg State Library in 2007.

Eugen Zardetti was also the Bregenz uncle of the writer Lilly Braumann-Honsell who bought the first private steam yacht on Lake Constance.

In 1885 Zardetti's son Otto Eugen Zardetti was born, who was trained at the Stella Matutina and then began studying law in Zurich .

literature

  • Emmerich Gmeiner, Eugen Zardetti and Auto-Vorarlbergers. A history of early automobilism in the Ländle , Hecht-Druck 2007, ISBN 978-3-85298-146-8

Web links

Commons : Eugen Zardetti  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist index - auction house Zeller art auctions .
  2. ↑ a b Matriculation Edition of the University of Zurich ( Memento from February 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Zardetti, Eugen - SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland .
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daimler.com
  5. ^ Book about the first cars in Vorarlberg. In: oesterreich.orf.at. October 1, 2007, accessed November 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Vorarlberg State Library - AquaBrowser Library® .
  7. ↑ The beginnings of sailing on Lake Constance, sailing, sailing, stories, technology, innovations, plastics, boat building, regattas .
personal data
SURNAME Zardetti, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zardetti, Eugen von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Marine painter and car pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Rorschach
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1926
Place of death Lucerne