Friedrich Kriehuber

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Friedrich Kriehuber ( Světozor from November 3, 1871)

Friedrich "Fritz" Kriehuber (also: Bedřich Kriehuber ; born June 7, 1834 in Vienna ; † October 12, 1871 ibid) was an Austrian draftsman , lithographer and wood engraver (xylograph).

Life

Karl Joseph von Hefele ; Wood engraving by Fritz Kriehuber based on a photo by Paul Sinner

Fritz was the son of the lithographer and painter Josef Kriehuber . From 1848 he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . At first he distinguished himself as a landscape painter, but soon shifted his focus to portraits and - as his father's colleague - to lithography . Many of his portraits were reproduced in illustrated newspapers.

Works

Kriehuber's works appeared, for example, as illustrations in the magazine Über Land und Meer, published by Eduard Hallberger , and in the illustrated book Das Jahr 1848 Geschichte der Wiener Revolution , published by Moritz Smets in 1876 (together with Vinzenz Katzler et al.). The following works are also mentioned in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon:

  • 1855: P. Kriehuber (Lebzelter Collection, Vienna)
  • 1860: Self-portrait ( Historical Museum of the City of Vienna )
  • 1867: Oil painting by A. Wich (Historical Museum of the City of Vienna)
  • 1869: M. Kriehuber (Lebzelter Collection, Vienna)
  • 1871: Moritz von Schwind , preliminary drawing for Über Land und Meer , issue 24 of the year
  • around 1872: Hans Makart , preliminary drawing for Über Land und Meer , issue 2 of the year
  • Lithograph head of an old farmer

drawings

literature

  • Heinz Schöny:  Kriehuber Friedrich (Fritz). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 272. PDF file
  • Wolfgang von Wurzbach: Catalog of the portrait lithographs of Josef Kriehuber , 2nd edition, Vienna: Walter Krieg Verlag, 1955, p. 83.
  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history , Vol. 1, 1895, p. 769 (under Josef Kriehuber).
    • Third, unchanged reprint of the edition Boetticher, Dresden, 1891–1901, Schmidt and Günther, Hofheim am Taunus 1979, ISBN 3-920843-00-2 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Kriehuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Czech-language Wikipedia
  2. ↑ according to Heinz Schöny (see literature), a different year of birth 1836 should come from the older Thieme-Becker
  3. ↑ a b c authority data entry of the German National Library (GND 130984493 ). Query date: April 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b see information under this wood engraving
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Heinz Schöny: Kriehuber, Friedrich (Fritz) (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Kriehuber, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kriehuber, Fritz; Kriehuber, Bedřich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian draftsman, lithographer and wood engraver
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1871
Place of death Vienna