Franz Xaver Gaul
Franz Xaver Dominik Georg Gaul (born July 27, 1837 in Margareten , Austrian Empire ; died July 3, 1906 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian painter and costume designer.
Life
Franz Gaul was a son of the medalist Franz Gaul and brother of the painter Gustav Gaul . Gaul studied from 1850 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was a master student in history and genre painting with Christian Ruben . Together with his brother he made the obligatory Grand Tour for painters to Dresden, Northern Italy, the Netherlands and France in 1856 . He earned his first reputation through caricatures. Gaul was a collector of costumes and costume books and in 1858 created the Ludwig Löbe memorial album for the court theater. He also drew an album for his friend, the actress Charlotte Wolter . In 1868 he became a costume painter for the two court theaters and from 1879 to 1900 he was chief technical inspector and head of the court opera's furnishings . In 1869 he was accepted into the Vienna Artists' Association.
Gaul set up plays, wrote libretti for ballets and scenarios for festivals, including Sonne und Erde (1889), Tanzmärchen und Vater Radetzky , Viennese waltzes with Louis Frappart and, as a masterpiece, together with Joseph Haßreiter and the composer Josef Bayer, Die Puppenfee (1888).
At the auction of watercolors, drawings and sketches from his estate, around 300 portrait sheets of personalities from the theater, around 2,500 costume studies and around 1,000 figure sketches were counted.
- Figurines
Käthchen von Heilbronn
Hagen in The Nibelungs
Götz von Berlichingen
Nestroy as Tratschmiedl (1866)
Works (selection)
- (Ed.): Austria-Hungarian national costumes, 1881–86
- Ingrid Wambsganz: Franz Gaul: (1837–1906) figurines for the Vienna theaters; Accompanying publication to the exhibition "Theaterdonner" in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum 19.12.2002 - 23.3.2003 . Nuremberg: Publ. Of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2002
- Ballet libretti
- Viennese Waltz (1885)
- The golden fairy tale city (1893)
- Around Vienna (1894)
literature
- Ingrid Wambsganz: Gaul, Franz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 50, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22790-6 , p. 230 f.
- Gaul, Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 412.
- Gaul, Franz in the German biography
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Gaul in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Franz Gaul in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaul, Franz Xaver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gaul, Franz; Gaul, Franz Xaver Dominik Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and costume designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Margareten |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1906 |
| Place of death | Vienna |