Georg Decker (painter)
Georg Decker (born December 7, 1818 in Pest , † February 13, 1894 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer .
Life
Georg Decker was the son of the painter Johann Stephan Decker and brother of the painters Albert Decker and Gabriel Decker . He came to Vienna with his family in 1821 and was initially his father's pupil. At the beginning of the 1840s he can then be proven as a student at the Vienna Academy . Around 1860 he ran a private painting school and was a member of the Künstlerhaus from 1861 . The plan of the Viennese court to set up a school for pastel painting for Decker did not materialize.
Georg Decker's first marriage to Ottilie von Sobek from 1851 to 1860, after whose death he married Josefine Helene von Lucam in 1861. After his death he was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery . In 1909 Deckergasse in Vienna- Meidling was named in honor of the artist.
meaning
Georg Decker began with watercolor portraits . From 1844 he occupied himself with oil painting , from 1850 with genre and history painting . After a stay in Dresden , he turned to pastel painting, which he revived and achieved great success.
Decker's portraits are of first-class quality and show a subtle, authentic and sensitive painting style. A particularly beautiful example of this is the portrait of Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff , which was created after the naval battle near Lissa in 1866 and is now in the Marines Hall of the Army History Museum .
Works (selection)
- Portrait of Wilhelm von Tegetthoff , after 1866, pastel on cardboard 88 × 73 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
- Portrait of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , around 1857, pastel on cardboard 81.5 × 65.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
- Lottery record on the fire site , watercolor, Wien Museum , Vienna
- Portrait of Field Marshal Radetzky , Wien Museum, Vienna
- Portrait of Field Marshal Radetzky , 1850, oil on canvas, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
- Portrait of Archduke Karl of Austria-Teschen (after Anton Einsle ), after 1847, oil on canvas, Albertina Graphic Collection , Vienna
- Portrait of Emperor Joseph II , pastel, Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna
- Portrait of Leopold von Rauch , Major General of the Prussian Army , around 1842, lithograph, Regionalmuseum Most (German Brüx )
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Decker, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 194 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Decker Georg. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 1-2 ( digitized version ).
- Franziska Schmid: Decker, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 545 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Decker, Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 522 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal . Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 150 f.
- ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: * The Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Vienna. Verlag Styria, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 48.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Decker, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plague (city) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1894 |
| Place of death | Vienna |