Friedrich von Amerling

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Friedrich von Amerling, photograph by Carl von Jagemann
Roman woman with distaff "Chiaruccia" (1846)

Friedrich Ritter von Amerling (born April 14, 1803 in Spittelberg , † January 14, 1887 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter . Alongside Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Amerling was one of the most respected Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century.

Life

Friedrich Amerling, etching by Franz Xaver Stöber after Josef Danhauser , 1834
Portrait of Amerling's last wife Marie geb. Nemetschke (1881)
Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery
The Amerlingschlößl on Mollardgasse (1895)

Friedrich Amerling was the son of the gold and silver wire puller Franz Amerling and his wife Theresia Kargl. He studied from 1815 to 1824 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After attending the engraving school with Josef Klieber there, he switched to the class for "historical drawing reasons" with Hubert Maurer and Karl Gsellhofer (1779–1858).

In 1824, Amerling went to his uncle Heinrich in Prague and continued to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague as a student of Joseph Bergler the Younger until 1826. He spent 1827 and 1828 in London , where he was influenced by the portrait painter Thomas Lawrence . Further trips took him to Paris , where he worked for Horace Vernet , and Rome , before he - back in Vienna from 1828 - carried out commissions from the Austrian imperial family , the nobility and the bourgeoisie.

In 1829 he received the Reichel Prize from the Academy in Vienna. Amerling undertook extensive study trips throughout his life: in 1836 and 1838 to Italy , 1838 to the Netherlands , 1839 to Munich , 1840–1843 to Rome , 1882 to Spain , 1883 to England , 1884 to Greece , 1885 to Scandinavia to the North Cape and 1886 to Egypt and Palestine .

Amerling was married four times: 1832 until her death in 1843 with Antonie Kaltenthaler, 1844 until her divorce in 1845 with Katharina Heißler, 1857 until her death in 1880 with Emilie Heinrich, and in 1881 with Maria Nemetschke , formerly married Paterno. In 1878 Amerling was raised to the nobility and has been called Friedrich Ritter von Amerling ever since. As one of the most respected artists in Vienna, he received numerous important writers and musicians (such as Franz Liszt ) at his home.

In 1858, Amerling acquired the 12th century Gumpendorf Palace in Vienna and furnished it with valuable art treasures to his taste. The building was therefore popularly called Amerlingschlößl .

In addition to numerous other honors, he received the Order of the Iron Crown III in 1879 . Class and was raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility due to the statutes of the order as "Ritter von Amerling". Amerling died in 1887. He was given a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14 A, number 30), which was designed by Johannes Benk . The Amerling monument in Vienna's city park from 1902 was made by the same artist .

estate

Amerling's estate, valued at an estimated 120,000 guilders, was administered by his last wife, the future Countess Marie Hoyos, until her death on April 3, 1914. In the spirit of the artist, she bequeathed this to the cooperative of visual artists of Vienna to establish the "Marie Countess Hoyos-Amerling Foundation" to support needy artists. In May 1916, a large part of Friedrich von Amerling's estate was auctioned off at Dorotheum . The foundation itself, however, only came into effect in 1918–1922 with 500-1,000 crowns each and was dissolved again in 1929.

His last house, the Amerlingschlößl, had to give way for the most part to the light rail construction in 1895; its remains were removed in 1961/1962, with the renaissance portal in the courtyard of house 6, Gumpendorfer Straße 104, being re-erected. It was there that Amerling also had an important collection of wrought iron work, some of which his fourth wife brought to the house of her father Franz Nemetschke , Bäckerstraße 7, and which can still be admired today.

In 1887 Amerlingstrasse in Vienna was named after the painter. The artist's birthplace, known as Amerlinghaus , has been a culture and communication center since 1978, which also includes the Neubau district museum .

In 1948 the Austrian Post issued a 60 Groschen special stamp on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the death of Friedrich von Amerling with his portrait. In 2005, a 125 cent stamp with a girl's head followed as a joint issue with the Principality of Liechtenstein as part of the “ Liechtenstein Museum Vienna” special stamp series .

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Amerling created over 1000 works, mostly portraits . He was the most popular portraitist of the aristocracy and the upper bourgeoisie during the Vienna Biedermeier period ; the peak of his work was in the period from 1830 to 1850. His works are characterized by elegant drawings, exotic arrangements and magnificent colors. The majority of his paintings are in Austrian museums and collections. The "Girl with a Straw Hat" from 1835 achieved a sensational price of 1,502,300 euros on October 15, 2008 at the Dorotheum auction house. The buyer is the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna.

  • Andreas Amerling (1829)

  • Emperor Franz I of Austria (1832)

  • Julie Countess of Woyna (1832)

  • Cäcilie Freiin von Eskeles (1832)

  • Self-Portrait (1834)

  • Girl with a Straw Hat , Amerling's most expensive auctioned work to date, valued at 1.5 million euros (1835)

  • Reading Girl (1835)

  • Flemish Mayor - Baron Pfuel (1836)

  • Rudolf von Arthaber and his children Rudolf, Emilie and Gustav (1837)

  • The Oriental Woman (1838)

  • Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I (around 1840)

  • Young girl (around 1840)

  • Pellegrino (1842)

  • Portrait of Mrs. Plach (1850)

  • Alexandra Potocka (1852)

Works

  • Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ), oil on canvas
  • A fisherman's boy (Vienna, Belvedere ), 1830, oil on canvas
  • The painter Thomas Ender (Vienna, Belvedere), 1831, oil on canvas, 40.5 × 32.5 cm
  • Franz I in the Austrian imperial robe (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum ), 1832, oil on canvas, 260 × 164 cm
  • Marie Freiin Vesque von Püttlingen (Vienna, Belvedere), 1832, oil on canvas, 90.5 × 75 cm
  • Maximilian Speck von Sternburg ( Leipzig , Museum of Fine Arts ), 1832
  • Portrait of an Elderly Man - Count Breda? (Vienna, Belvedere), 1833, oil on canvas
  • Portrait of the painter Peter Fendi (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum , inv.no.GE2063), 1833, oil on canvas, 52 × 42 cm
  • Portrait of Henriette Baroness Pereira-Arnstein with her daughter Flora (Vienna, Belvedere), 1833, oil on canvas, 158 × 124.5 cm
  • Count August Ferdinand Breuner-Enckevoirt with his wife Maria Theresia Esterhazy and their two children ( Grafenegg Castle ), 1834
  • Girl with a Straw Hat (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum), 1835, oil on canvas (Amerling's most expensive painting to date; auctioned for 1.5 million euros in 2008)
  • Lost in dreams (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv.no.GE1125), 1835, oil on canvas, 55 × 45 cm
  • Alexander Freiherr von Vesque-Püttlingen as a child (Vienna, Belvedere), 1836, oil on canvas, 31.5 × 26 cm
  • Portrait of Count István Széchenyi (Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ), 1836, oil on canvas, 250 × 165 cm
  • Portrait of Princess Marie Franziska von Liechtenstein at the age of 2 (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv.no.GE2314), 1836, oil on cardboard, 33 × 27 cm
  • The sculptor Pompeo Marchesi (Vienna, Belvedere), 1836, oil on canvas, 40 × 33 cm
  • The Painter's Mother (Vienna, Belvedere), 1836, oil on cardboard, 47 × 39 cm
  • Portrait of the animal and landscape painter Friedrich Gauermann (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich , inv. No. 8663), around 1836, oil on canvas
  • Portrait of Princess Karoline von Liechtenstein at the age of one and a half years (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv.no.GE2315), 1837, oil on canvas, 35 × 28 cm
  • Portrait of Elise Kreuzberger (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv.no.GE2377), 1837, oil on canvas, 57 × 45 cm
  • Rudolf von Arthaber with his children Rudolf, Emilie and Gustav (Vienna, Belvedere), 1837, oil on canvas, 221 × 155 cm
  • Portrait of the painter Carl Vogel von Vogelstein (Berlin, National Gallery , Inv.No.A III 541), 1837
  • Portrait of Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein at the age of about one and a half years (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv.no.GE2379), 1838, oil on canvas, 34 × 28 cm
  • The three delicious things ( Wien Museum , inv. No. 117.356), 1838, oil on canvas
  • Lute player (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.Lg 0040), 1838, oil on canvas, 99 × 82 cm
  • Portrait of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv.no.GE353), 1843, oil on canvas, 103 × 81 cm
  • Portrait of Ludwig Louis von Pereira-Arnstein , 1844, Universalmuseum Joanneum , Graz
  • Portrait of the future Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein as a child on a white pony (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv. No. GE2381), 1845, oil on canvas, 234 × 157 cm
  • The painter Luise Pfeiffer-Nathusius (Vienna, Belvedere), 1846, oil on canvas, 50.5 × 78 cm
  • The son Friedrich Amerling on the sickbed (Wien Museum), 1850, oil on canvas
  • Friedrich, the artist's son (Wien Museum), 1851, oil on canvas
  • Countess Nákó (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts ), 1855, oil on canvas, 127 × 106 cm
  • Study head of a bearded man (Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, inv. No. GE2378), oil on canvas, 65 × 53 cm
  • Self-portrait (Salzburg, Residenzgalerie , Inv. No. 00276), oil on canvas, 50.5 × 41.5 cm
  • Portrait of Frau Striebel (private property), oil on canvas, 99 × 103 cm
  • Roman woman with distaff "Chiaruccia" (private property), oil on canvas, 93 × 71 cm

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl von Thaler:  The Gumpendorfer Schlößchen. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 10988/1895), March 28, 1895, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  2. ^ Vienna history : “Künstlerhaus-prices / 11 Marie-Gräfin-Hoyos-Amerling-Preis”, as of February 22, 2016
  3. ^ Dorotheum: Friedrich von Amerling estate, auction catalog of the 263rd art auction May 3-6, 1916, Vienna
  4. ^ Gumpendorfer Schloss in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , as of February 22, 2016
  5. ↑ Website of the City of Vienna: City walk: Inner courtyards - Bäckerstraße 7 , as of January 22, 2016
  6. ^ Illustration of the postage stamp designed by F. Lorber .
  7. ^ Illustration of the postage stamp designed by W. Seidel .
  8. ^ Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Foundation . In: sternburg-stiftung.de .
  9. ↑ Ludwig Louis von Pereira-Arnstein, banker - city portal of the state capital Graz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2017 ; accessed on January 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.graz.at

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personal data
SURNAME Amerling, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amerling, Friedrich Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Spittelberg (Vienna)
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1887
Place of death Vienna