Gabriel von Hackl

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Gabriel von Hackl, painted by Leo Samberger

Gabriel (von) Hackl (born March 24, 1843 in Marburg an der Drau , Austrian Empire , † June 5, 1926 in Munich ) was a German-Austrian painter of historicism .

life and work

Hackl was born in 1843 as the son of a surgeon. He spent his school days at the grammar school in his hometown and at the municipal school in Graz . At the request of his father, he studied anatomy , archeology and drawing at the University of Vienna . In 1865 he went to Munich to study at the Academy of Fine Arts with Alexander Wagner and Carl Theodor von Piloty . He then took a position at the Munich School of Applied Arts. He was married to Sophie von Hackl, née Schmid.

Gabriel von Hackl: The child prodigy , 1874

In 1878 he became a professor , was initially an assistant teacher and from 1880 head of the drawing class at the Munich Art Academy, a position he held until 1919. He was a colleague of Franz von Stuck and Wilhelm von Diez , among others . Hackl was a member of the Luitpold Group , founded in 1896 , a spin-off from the Munich Artists' Cooperative , which also included the painters Hugo Bürgel , Walter Firle , Fritz Baer , Karl Marr, Johann Sperl and Wilhelm Leibl . Through his teaching, von Hackl promoted numerous well-known artists in their work, but had no lasting success with his own work. Today, works by the artist are occasionally offered in auction shops.

Known students

Working in public collections

Exhibitions

  • 1891: Annual exhibition of the Cooperative of Fine Artists Vienna and the Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden
  • 2006: On human nature. Genre painting of the 19th and early 20th centuries. New Gallery Graz

literature

Web links

Commons : Gabriel von Hackl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Eberhard Hanfstaengl : Hackl, Gabriel von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 416 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. Hackl, Gabriel von. In: Matriculation database - Academy of Fine Arts Munich. matrikel.adbk.de, accessed on March 8, 2019 (with student directory).
  3. ^ Boris Röhrl: Wilhelm Leibl: Life and Work. Olms, 1994, ISBN 3-487-09864-4 .
  4. Hackl painting on artnet.