Franz Xaver Karl Palko

Family portrait of Maria Theresa with Franz Stephan of Lothringen and the little Archduke Joseph in hussar uniform .

Beheading of James , Kuttenberg

Franz Xaver Karl Palko (born March 3, 1724 in Breslau , † 1767 in Prague ) was a German history and portrait painter and etcher .

life and work

He was the son of the largely unknown Anton Palko († 1754) and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Accademia in Venice . Giuseppe Maria Crespi shows a particular influence in Palko's work . Palko was subsequently in Kremsier , Brno , Dresden (as a Saxon - Polish court painter under Friedrich August II. ), Raudnitz , Prague and in Munich as an electoral Bavarian court painter under Maximilian III. Joseph active.

Many of his works are still preserved today and are represented in collections throughout the former Habsburg monarchy and in German-speaking countries.

Works (excerpt)

Family portrait of Empress Maria Theresia and Franz Stephan with the little Archduke Joseph in hussar uniform , around 1747, oil on canvas, approx. 80 × 60 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
The beheading of James , altarpiece in the church of St. Jacob, Kuttenberg , Bohemia
Emperor Ferdinand I , around 1760, oil on canvas, 380 × 215 cm, Belvedere , Vienna

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Balko, Franz Xaver . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing press L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 133 f. ( Digitized version ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Palko, the family of painters . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 21st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 223–226 ( digitized version ).
Hans Vollmer (Ed.), General Lexicon of Visual Artists from Antiquity to the Present, Leipzig 1932, Volume 26, p. 162 f.
Peter Prange: Palko, Franz Xaver Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 12 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : František Xaver Palko - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Works by Franz Xaver Karl Palko in: Digitales Belvedere

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present, Leipzig 1932, Volume 26, p. 162 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Palko, Franz Xaver Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Palcko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	1767
Place of death	Prague

[1] Hans Vollmer (Ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present, Leipzig 1932, Volume 26, p. 162 f.