Franz Zeller (painter)

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Franz Zeller von Nahrungsmittelberg as a pupil of the Theresianum. Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1828
The riding school of the Uhlan Regiment No. 1 in the Leopoldstadt cavalry barracks , around 1845.
Entry of the Imperial and Royal First Arcièren Life Guard into the guard barracks on Rennweg after a Corpus Christi procession , 1868.

Franz Zeller Edler von Nahrungsmittelberg (born June 22, 1805 in Vienna ; † August 13, 1876 ​​there ) was an Austrian military painter and lithographer .

Life

Zeller studied law and pursued a career as a judge , from which he did not retire until 1875, one year before his death. However, his job gave him enough time to deal with the fine arts, which he practiced autodidactically from an early age, both in his hometown of Vienna and on several official trips . In addition to depicting horses , he mainly painted the military genre as well as hunting and sports pictures. Occasionally he also painted landscapes . He mastered the techniques of oil painting , watercolors and gouaches and made numerous templates for lithographs . Zeller used a smooth, very careful painting style that took into account every detail.

In the years 1834 and 1863, Zeller von Bäumenberg exhibited his works at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and in the 1860s he painted a total of 35 horse portraits for the imperial family . His works can be found in the collections of well-known museums, including those of the Wien Museum and the Army History Museum .

Works (excerpt)

  • The riding school of the Uhlan Regiment No. 1 in the Leopoldstädter Reiterkaserne , around 1845, oil on canvas, approx. 47 × 57 cm, Army History Museum, Vienna
  • Entry of the Imperial and Royal First Arcieren Life Guard into the guard barracks on Rennweg after a Corpus Christi procession , 1868, oil on canvas, approx. 96 × 125 cm, Army History Museum , Vienna.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeller, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 448 .
  2. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall VI - The k. (U.) K. Army from 1867-1914 , Vienna 1989, p. 29.

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SURNAME Zeller, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeller Edler von Zellberg, Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1876
Place of death Vienna