Ferdinand Krumholz

Ferdinand Krumholz , also Krumbholz (born May 7, 1810 in Hof in Moravia, † January 11, 1878 in Bern ) was an Austrian portrait , genre and landscape painter .

Life

Krumholz was a student and nephew of the painter Stanislaus Michael Krumholz. From 1820 he studied at the Vienna Art Academy with Josef Redl , Johann Ender and Johann Nepomuk Schaller . In 1829 he became a drawing teacher for Count Czernin in Trieste . This was followed by a two-year study at the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia as well as study visits to Rome and Naples. In 1832 he returned to Bohemia to continue his studies in 1834 at the Paris Academy of Art . In Paris he was represented with portraits in the exhibitions of the Paris Salon until 1845 and received a gold medal in the exhibition of the Louvre in 1841 . He became known and loved as a portrait painter at the European royal courts of Vormärz. From 1844 to 1847 he worked in Lisbon and during the summer in Andalusia .

In 1848 he traveled from Trieste to Rio de Janeiro ; the ship was attacked by pirates while crossing to South America . In Brazil he painted the imperial couple Pedro II and his wife Teresa Maria Cristina of Naples-Sicily as the Brazilian court painter . Since 1848 he exhibited four times at the Exposição Geral de Belas Artes of the Brazilian Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA), of which he became an honorary member in 1849. That year he was also awarded the Brazilian Order of the Rose , variant Cavaleiro. His works from this period belong to the Romantic period , some of them are in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro and in the Imperial Museum in Petrópolis .

Krumholz returned to Europe in 1853, first to London, then to Moravia. In 1854 he made a trip to India and in 1858 returned to Paris. After a stay in Silesia in 1875, he settled in Bern in 1876.

Honors

• 1847 honorary citizen of his hometown Hof
• Order of the Rose , expression: Cavaleiro
• Franz Joseph Order
• Order of Charles III.

Images from Brazil

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  Portrait of the Comptess of Iguaçu (1852, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro)

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  Portrait of the Princess Leopoldina de Bragança

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  Portrait of Emperor Pedro II (1849, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna)

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  Portrait of Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre (1848)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Krumbholz (painter) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, p. 280 ( digitized version ).
• Directory of the libraries left behind by the deceased von Steiger von Montricher in Graz, Pastor Walthardt in Unterseen, Pastor Buss in Bargen, Ferdinand Krumholz , Georg Rettig, Bern 1878.
• List of paintings, engravings and other works of the fine arts: from the estate of the Lords of Bondarewski, wt. imperial Russian state council and Ferdinand Krumholz, elected. royal Portuguese court painter. Georg Rettig, Bern 1878.
• Krumholz, Ferdinand . 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. 9-10 .
• Krumholz Ferdinand. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 303.
• Kurt Landwehr von Pragenau: Notes on the life and work of the painter Ferdinand Krumholz from Hof ​​in Moravia. 1988.
• Frauke Josenhans: Krumholz, Ferdinand Stanislaus. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 161-163.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Krumholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Krumholz in the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (Portuguese)