Franz Schams (painter)
Franz Xaver Schams (born February 8, 1824 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; † March 22, 1883 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian history and genre painter and lithographer .
life and work
Schams was the son of a tailor and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1837 to 1840 . Afterwards he was apprenticed to a Viennese and a Prague engraver for several years. In 1846/47 he attended the art academy of the Association of Patriotic Art Friends in Prague and then returned to the Vienna Academy. Subsequently he became a private student of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and undertook a study trip to Rome in 1854/55 together with Heinrich von Ferstel and Franz Josef Dobiaschofsky .
In the 1850s, Schams mainly painted historical pictures of older Austrian history , but also created altarpieces for some churches in Lower Austria , such as B. for the market town of Auersthal . Later he turned more to genre painting, preferring small, humorous scenes from everyday life. His apprenticeship at Waldmüller is reflected above all in the meticulously fine painting technique, but contemporaries attested Schams a certain independence and awareness. He belonged to the generation of Viennese painters who grew up in the Biedermeier world of ideas and carried it on until the end of the 19th century . Stams knew how to fuse the spirit of the old Viennese middle class with the sharper satirical trait of the new era in his works.
In 1861 Schams became a member of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative (later the Vienna Künstlerhaus ). In 1882 he was awarded the gold medal on the occasion of the exhibition of the Künstlerhaus in the Museum Revoltella in Trieste .
Schams was buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 13 B).
Works (excerpt)
- Student parlor of the Academic Legion in the auditorium of the old university 1848 , 1848, Vienna Museum
- The Visitation of the Virgin Mary , 1855, Auersthal parish church, Lower Austria
- Duke Friedrich IV, disguised as a minstrel, reveals himself to his dear Tyroleans on his flight to Constanz , 1851, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schams, Franz (painter) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, pp. 113–115 ( digitized version ).
- Schams, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 578 .
- G. Frodl: Schams Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 37.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ After Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1974, Volume 4, p. K12 on March 22, 1823
- ↑ Franz Schams . In: Guide through the picture gallery . Self-published, Vienna 1906, p. 95 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - with short biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schams, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schams, Franz Xaver (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian history and genre painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1883 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |