Ferdinand Laufberger
Ferdinand Laufberger (born February 16, 1829 in Mariaschein , Bohemia , † July 16, 1881 in Vienna ) was a painter and etcher .
Laufberger trained at the academies in Prague and Vienna , first painted pictures from popular life, and in 1855, on behalf of the Austrian Lloyd, went to the Danube principalities and Constantinople to draw a series of picturesque views for the engraving , which were widely acclaimed.
A two-year travel grant from the Vienna Academy enabled him to visit the most important art venues. He toured Germany and Belgium, went to London, in 1862 to Paris and finally to Italy. He stayed in Paris for 15 months and painted the figure-rich oil painting The Audience in the Louvre . In 1865 he was entrusted with the execution of the curtain for the Komische Oper. In 1868 he was appointed professor of figure drawing and painting at the newly established arts and crafts school of the Austrian Museum, and he did a lot for it to flourish.
After completing the curtain, which was cut for the Society for Reproductive Art, he made several smaller decorative works until the new building of the Austrian Museum gave him the opportunity to create a frieze in sgraffito and the frescoes on the mirror vault of the stairwell (Venus, rising from the sea, surrounded by the arts). Laufberger also painted genre pictures, most of which have a humorous character:
- A private scholar observes a solar eclipse (1858),
- Mountain travelers in front of a farmhouse (1859),
- Old Bachelor (1860),
- A cozy place and
- Genoveva in the forest (both 1861),
- Summer evening in the Prater (1864).
Laufberger supplied the box for the glass window made by Carl Geyling above the south entrance of the industrial hall of the World Exhibition Building in Vienna (in the middle Austria enthroned). He also erased. Ferdinand Laufberger died on July 16, 1881 in Vienna.
In 1889 the Laufbergergasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Laufberger, Ferdinand . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 220 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Theodor Frimmel von Traisenau: Laufberger, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 40-42.
- Werner Kitlitschka : Laufberger, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 707 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Gitta Ho: Laufberger, Ferdinand Julius Wilhelm In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (eds.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.
Web links
- Entry on Ferdinand Laufberger in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laufberger, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mariaschein , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1881 |
| Place of death | Vienna |