Ferdinand of Rezniček

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Ferdinand von Reznicek, Czardas dancer. From "Simplicissimus" 1906
Ferdinand von Reznicek: Breasts of Nature , 1901
Original drawing by Ferdinand von Reznicek: Colombine, 1901

Ferdinand Freiherr von Rezniček (born June 16, 1868 in Sievering near Vienna , † May 11, 1909 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter , draftsman and illustrator .

family

He was born as the son of the Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Lieutenant Josef Reznicek (1812–1886) and Hermine Conrad (1839–1878), who came from a Transylvanian family . Due to his extraordinary military achievements, his father was already elevated to the Austrian knighthood on January 4, 1853 in Vienna and on January 2, 1860 with a diploma from February 1, 1860 in Vienna to the Austrian baron . Ferdinand von Reznicek was a half-brother of the composer Emil Nikolaus Freiherr von Reznicek (1860–1945) and grandson of the Beraun bandmaster Josef Resnitschek (1787–1848).

Life

Reznicek was to pursue a military career like his father, became an officer of the cavalry , but then followed his artistic inclinations after his father's death. In 1888 he began studying with Paul Hoecker at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with a focus on outdoor painting . Reznicek initially worked as a commercial artist , later for the magazines Jugend , Simplicissimus and Fliegende Blätter . He specialized in depicting the elegant, sophisticated world, for which he showed a loving and critical eye. His large-format, colored drawings always had a touch of delicate eroticism. They contributed significantly to the sales success of the Simplicissimus .

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“In his drawings, Reznicek almost exclusively shows young, elegant women in fragrant fine clothes and with elegant, often very graceful gestures. He contrasts these delicate, playful and flirtatious-looking female figures with rather clumsy-looking, older, but obviously well-heeled men, either lovers or husbands who have been betrayed. In one rare instance, a woman takes on the weighty "demanding" role, which is portrayed in a decidedly comic way than the ridiculous role played by the old men. ... There are women in fantastic, fragrant ball gowns, dancing couples and the carnival flirt - motifs and themes that Reznicek knew how to implement with inimitable ease. ... Reznicek very seldom drew nudes for “Simplicissimus”. At this point in time, the undressed woman, which is very characteristic, was not yet a “simplistic” theme - however, it often shows women from whose shoulders the robe threatens to slide down in the next moment. ... The uniform style of his work and the easily accessible, never demanding or even shocking content of his depictions made Reznicek one of the magazine's most popular employees in the fourteen years of his work for "Simplicissimus". "

- SIMPLICISSIMUS A satirical magazine. Exhibition catalog (see literature)

The best works of the artist appear summarized in albums and folders:

1902 album Galante Welt 1906 album Der Tanz 1907 album Sie 1908 album Unter Vier Augen 1909 album People in love

Reznicek illustrated novels and short stories and designed numerous cover and cover drawings. He also emerged as a commercial artist. (G. Flügge, "Reznicek")

Others

On the occasion of an exhibition of Reznicek's drawings for Simplicissimus in Georg Hulbe's rooms in the Hamburger Hof , Rudolf Mönckeberg , the brother of Mayor Mönckeberg's brother, brought a lawsuit against Hulbe for "causing a public nuisance". Dr. Rudolf Mönckeberg (allegedly?) Criticized Reznicek's drawings as obscene. Hulbe was sentenced by the court to a fine of 50 marks and “took revenge” with a stone relief on his new arts and crafts building at Mönckebergstrasse 21, the Hulbe-Haus . Hulbe must have found this process very hurtful and degrading. He was a highly respected artisan and patron of the arts in Hamburg, who could call himself the imperial purveyor to the court and who, among other things , had made the precious leather wallpapers and leather seats for both the Reichstag and Hamburg city hall .

Ludwig Thoma, who was part of the editorial team of the magazine Simplicissimus , writes in his memoirs on Reznicek's death:

“... the death of Langens and Reznicek came quite unexpectedly. This was the typical Austrian from a good family; tactful, amiable, cheerful, elegant in manners and character. I have never seen him loud or violent, and I think he would have been completely helpless against brutality. The grace that made his drawings valuable to those who appreciate more austere art was in his nature. Of the artists who also became known to 'Simplicissimus' and 'Jugend', he was immediately the most popular, and he has remained so. That he, pampered and courted, remained completely free of vanity and lived by no means unrestrained, proved his real worth, which was doubted only by those who did not know him personally. The nature and the representational nature of his art caused many moral judges, who could live very undisputed, to assume that the good Ferdinand von Reznicek was a libertine, and this was sometimes submitted to him in print. Such accusations do not harm the honor of men; to many they seem so flattering that they accept them with a discreet smile. But this did not affect Reznicek. He wasn't the "damn guy" nor did he want to appear to be.

Without whims, always lovable from the heart, helpful and receptive to any cheerful mood, he was the best comrade in whose presence there could never be displeasure. Illness and death reveal a person's character even more. All three, Wilke, Langen, and Reznicek, passed the toughest test worthily, and they died bravely without pointless complaining, and the last things were indicative of the manner of each.

Reznicek, who wanted to be operated on in the clinic, wrote to me two days before his death that he was looking forward to the matter in the usual manner; When a violent hemorrhage thwarted any hope, he asked the doctor that he should pierce his heart with a needle after his death, and he sent greetings to all of us ... "

Ferdinand von Reznicek was friends with Frank Wedekind. In his drama Oaha (1908) Reznicek appears as a painter by the name of Tichatschek.

in the Austrian film Masquerade with Paula Wessely (1934) the figure of the court painter is modeled on Ferdinand von Reznicek.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand von Řezníček  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, page 366, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN  0435-2408
personal data
SURNAME Rezniček, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rezniček, Ferdinand Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Sievering
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1909
Place of death Munich