Giuseppe Tominz
Giuseppe Tominz (born July 6, 1790 in Gorizia , † April 24, 1866 in Gradiscutta in Val Vipacco , Austrian Empire ) was an Italian painter.
Life
Giuseppe Tominz was born on July 6, 1790 as the son of the ironmonger Giovanni Tominz and his wife Maria Anna Giacchini. After his school education with the Catholic Order of the Piarists , Tominz began an apprenticeship with the Gorizia painter Carlo Kebar . After the death of his mother and the remarriage of his father, he left the family estate in 1803. Presumably he studied in the following years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1808, during a visit to Gorizia, he met the sister of Emperor Franz I of Austria , Maria Anna of Austria (1770-1809), in whom he was a sponsor found. The Archduchess established a connection with the painter Domenico Conti Bazzani , who worked as a professor in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca . After the sudden death of his benefactress, he found a new financier in Count Giuseppe della Torre di Valsassina , whom he had probably met through his former teacher Carlo Kebar. With his financial support, Tominz moved to Rome. In Rome, he copied and restored works of art while being tutored by Bazzani at the Accademia di San Luca. During this phase his works Venere e Cupido (1812) and Lettrice (1812) were created. In 1814 he was awarded for one of his theses. In Rome, Tominz made friends with the painter Bartolomeo Pinelli . In 1816 he married Maria Ricci, the daughter of one of Bazzani's domestic servants. On February 1, 1818, their first son, Augusto, was born, who was also to become a painter and in 1872 the first director of the Museo Revoltella in Trieste.
After the death of his teacher Bazzani, Tominz and his family returned to his hometown of Gorizia, where he received orders from the Archdiocese of Gorizia and the cities of Ljubljana and Trieste . The portrait of the painter Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1830), who was friends with the Tominz family, was also created during this phase . Tominz moved to Trieste around 1830. The port city experienced an enormous economic boom during this time and Tominz's portraits were particularly popular with the Trieste bourgeoisie. After 1835 numerous portraits of wealthy citizens of Trieste were made.
In 1848 Tominz returned to Gorizia, but left his hometown a short time later due to the revolution of 1848 and lived in Trieste until 1855. He then moved to his brother Francesco in Gradiscutta near Gorizia, where he died on April 24, 1866.
Works (selection)
Numerous works by Tominz are exhibited in the Museo Revoltella in Trieste, in the Musei Provinciali of Gorizia and in the Narodna Galerija in Ljubljana .
- Venere e Cupid (1812)
- Lettrice (1812)
- Autoritratto col fratello Francesco (1819), Musei Provinciali, Gorizia
- L'imperatore Francesco I d'Austria (1821), Musei Provinciali, Gorizia
- Autoritratto (1826), Narodna Galerija, Ljubljana
- Ritratto di Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1830), Museo Revoltella , Trieste
- L'imperatore Ferdinando I d'Austria (around 1830), Musei Provinciali, Gorizia
Self-portrait
Web links
- Life and works of Giuseppe Tominz (Italian) ( Memento from May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tominz, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorizia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1866 |
| Place of death | Gradišče nad Prvačino |