Franz Caucig
Franz Caucig (Slovenian Frančišek Caucig or Franc Kavčič , born December 4, 1755 in Gorizia , † November 17, 1828 in Vienna ) was an Austrian neoclassical painter and draftsman of Slovenian origin.
Caucig was born in Gorizia, the capital of what was then the county of Gorizia . Count Guido von Cobenzl noticed Caucig's talent for drawing and sent him to his son, Count Philipp von Cobenzl , who was influential at the imperial court and supported the talented youth in his studies.
Caucig began his studies in Vienna and continued it thanks to a scholarship from 1779 to 1781 at the Accademia Clementina di Bologna and from 1781 to 1787 at the Académie de France à Rome . He spent the period from 1787 to 1791 in Vienna. In 1791 he came to Mantua , where he a. a. copied the paintings by Giulio Romano and the reliefs of the Roman sarcophagi . From 1791 to 1797 he lived in Venice , where in 1796 he was elected to the board of the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia . Back in Vienna in 1797, he was appointed professor of drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1799 .
His patron Philipp von Cobenzl died in 1810, and Caucig became the protégé of Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich . From 1799 to 1820 Caucig was a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1820 until his death he was director of this institution. From 1808 he was head of the painting department of the Viennese porcelain factories.
Caucig died childless, four days after the death of his wife, and was buried in Gloggnitz in Lower Austria .
literature
- Karl Weiß: Caucig, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 75 f.
- Caucig, Franc . In: Primorski Slovenski Biogrfski Lexikon Vol. 3, Gorica 1976, pp. 171-172 ( digitized version ).
- Ksenija Rozman: Caucig, Francesco Saverio Antonio Nicolò. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 22: Castelvetro – Cavallotti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1979.
- Ksenija Rozman: Caucig, Franz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 17, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22757-4 , p. 327.
- Caucig, Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 197 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Johannes Röll: A portrait of the painter Franz Caucig in an album of drawings in the Bibliotheca Hertziana, In: Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 40, 2011/12 (2016), 289–309
- Johannes Röll and Ksenija Rozman: Franz Caucig: The Italian landscape drawings. Cyriacus. Studies on the Reception of Antiquity Volume 11, Ruhpolding and Mainz 2018
Web links
- Franz Caucig. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caucig, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caucig, Franz Xaver Antonius Nikolaus; Caucig, Francesco Saverio Antonio Nicolò; Caucig, Franco; Caucig, Francesco; Kavčič, franc; Caucig, Frančišek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian neoclassical painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1755 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorizia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1828 |
| Place of death | Vienna |