Franz Schrotzberg
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Franz Schrotzberg (born April 2, 1811 in Vienna , † May 29, 1889 in Graz ) was an Austrian painter .
Live and act
Schrotzberg was a student at the Vienna Academy from 1825 to 1831 . In 1827 he received a scholarship, in 1828 he was awarded three prizes. At the age of 19 he became friends with the landscape painter Karl Marko , who influenced him artistically, although Schrotzberg soon turned to portraiture . In 1832 he exhibited portraits and mythological scenes in St. Anna for the first time . In 1837 he went on a study trip to Italy , in 1842 he visited Germany and Belgium . He later toured Northern Italy , London and Paris . From around 1840 he was one of the most sought-after painters of representative portraits of women in Vienna.
His opulent style was controversial even among his contemporaries. The Viennese art critic Ludwig Hevesi judged in 1903: “His competitor and successor [meaning Friedrich von Amerling ] in the favor of the beautiful clientele was the silky smooth Franz Schrotzberg [...], a mild Viennese Winterhalter , whose portraits on the walls of all aristocratic and Citizen palaces hang. He was lucky enough to be able to paint the youthful beauty of Empress Elisabeth , which made him even more the painter of the beautiful world. His student Ernst Lafite (1826–1885) then continued him. "
His oil paintings of the imperial family and the high nobility often served as a template for portrait lithographs by Josef Kriehuber , August Prinzhofer , Adolf Dauthage and Franz Eybl . In 1843 he became a member of the academy . In 1867 he was awarded the Franz Joseph Order .
In 1899, Schrotzbergstrasse was named after him in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) .
Schrotzberg was married to Eleonore Stohl. The daughter Helene (* 1863) married the reform pedagogue Ludwig Gurlitt in 1890 .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schrotzberg, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 18–23 ( digitized version ).
- Schrotzberg, Franz. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 664-665 ( archive.org ).
- Schrotzberg, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 301 .
- G. Frodl: Schrotzberg, Franz . In: Austrian biographical lexicon 1815–1950 . tape 11 : Schriefer – Schulpe de Törökkanizsa , 53rd delivery. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1998, p. 263–264 ( biographien.ac.at - online edition).
- Gabriele Pröll: Franz Schrotzberg 1811–1889. 2 volumes. University, Vienna 1991, (diploma thesis).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Hevesi: Austrian art in the 19th century. Seemann, Leipzig, 1903, Part Two: 1848–1900, pp. 197–198 ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schrotzberg, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1889 |
| Place of death | Graz |