Franz Kopallik

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Franz Kopallik (born January 4, 1860 in Vienna ; † January 29, 1931 there ) was an Austrian painter . He worked as a middle school teacher and is best known for his watercolors with views of Vienna.

Life

Franz Kopallik was born the son of a tax officer in Leopoldstadt . The writer Auguste Groner and the church historian Joseph Kopallik were his siblings. Another sister, Marianne Kopallik, later ran the household for him. Like his older brother Joseph, Franz Kopallik attended the Academic Gymnasium . He then trained as a teacher for drawing and performing geometry at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1878 to 1884 . There the painter Michael Rieser was one of his teachers. One trip took Kopallik 1882 to northern Italy .

He worked for six years as an assistant and supplement at various Viennese secondary schools, including the Währinger Realschule . He then moved first as a supplement, then as a regular teacher at the Döblinger Gymnasium , where he worked until his retirement. Franz Kopallik used the free time to paint. There was not only great demand for his artistic work from the imperial family , the nobility and the city of Vienna. On behalf of Prince Franz von Liechtenstein , then the Austro-Hungarian ambassador, he visited the Russian Empire in 1898 . During the First World War , Kopallik organized the transport of the wounded for the Red Cross for pupils from the Döblinger grammar school. He had extensive knowledge of the architecture and history of Vienna as well as of costume and weapons studies. He retired as a teacher in 1919.

Franz Kopallik died in 1931 a few weeks after his 71st birthday.

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Franz Kopallik began as a creator of history and church paintings . He painted an altarpiece for a church in Cres . He soon turned to watercolors of architecture and landscapes. Along with Rudolf von Alt , Emil Hütter , Richard Moser , Erwin Pendl and Franz Poledne, Kopallik was one of those painters who shaped a sentimental image of “ Old Vienna ”. He painted the Vienna Capistran pulpit alone over seventy times.

The City of Vienna awarded him several orders, for example for a picture of St. Stephen's Cathedral for the warship SMS Wien . The Wien Museum owns around one hundred of his sheets. A copallic painting of Philipphof was privately owned by Emperor Franz Joseph . Archduchess Maria Theresa called a view of the interior of the Old Burgtheater her own and Archduke Ludwig Viktor had a Olomouc - Vedute . Other well-known images of Kopallik presented example, the study of Emperor Franz Joseph, the choir of lichtental church that Schubert's birthplace , the Neustiftgasse , the castle Alt-Teuffenbach and the Schloss Persenbeug . In his stay in Russia he painted motifs in Saint Petersburg , Moscow , Tsarskoe Selo , Oranienburg and in the Grand Duchy of Finland . He illustrated the book From Our Father City , published in 1892 and written by his sister Auguste Groner, with 50 pictures of the expansion of Vienna. For the Münchner Wochenschrift Fliegende Blätter he produced twelve calendar pictures in 1918.

Franz Kopallik had been a member of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative since 1890 and was represented at its annual exhibitions. His works were also on view at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 , the Milan World Exhibition of 1906 and the Vienna Hunting Exhibition of 1910 .

Honors and places of remembrance

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Web links

Commons : Franz Kopallik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Arnold Winkler:  Professor Franz Kopallik. Words of remembrance. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , February 1, 1931, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj
  2. ↑ The disaster in the port of Fiume. In:  Reichspost , September 24, 1897, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Krasa-Florian:  Kopallik, Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 113.
  4. ↑ Felix Czeike (ed.): Kopallik, Franz. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , pp. 374-375 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ a b c d e To our 18th art sheet from the gallery of Austrian painters. Prof. Franz Kopallik: Country road in winter. In:  Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung , January 29, 1911, p. 15 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oiz
  6. ↑ Topography and urban development: graphics and painting. Wien Museum, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Professor Franz Kopallik has died. In:  Der Wiener Tag , January 30, 1931, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / day
  8. ↑ Official part. In:  Wiener Zeitung , August 2, 1927, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  9. ↑ Grave sites dedicated to honor or taken into custody in honor of Döbling cemetery. (PDF) Friedhöfe Wien, January 2008, p. 2 , accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Kopallikgasse. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 375 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Memorial plaques in Vienna: 19., Kopallik, death house. In: Art and Culture in Vienna. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kopallik, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1931
Place of death Vienna