Hans Canon

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Hans Canon
The Johannis Lodge , 1873, Belvedere , Vienna
Girl with a parrot , 1876, Belvedere , Vienna
Putti building the railway , around 1876, Belvedere , Vienna

Hans Canon (born March 15, 1829 in Vienna ; † September 12, 1885 there ; actually Johann Strašiřipka ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Canon was born in the Jägerzeile in Vienna (today Praterstrasse 68). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1845 and was a student of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and Carl Rahl . In between Canon was an officer in the Austrian army until 1855 before he graduated from the academy. Study trips through Western Europe , Italy and the Orient followed . Canon stayed in Karlsruhe from 1860 to 1869 . He married Katharina Buchhold in 1866. From 1869 to 1874 he lived in Stuttgart and returned to Vienna in 1874. In 1882 he married a second time, Amalie Veranneman van Watervliet. Hans Canon died in 1885 at Rasumofskygasse 27 and was buried in the Matzleinsdorfer Evangelical Cemetery (Group 19, No. 159).

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Hans Canon was a history and portrait painter of historicism and the Ringstrasse era and a contemporary of Hans Makart . He was based on the old masters , especially Peter Paul Rubens and Titian . In addition to his oil paintings , Canon also created a number of monumental paintings on public buildings from the Ringstrasse era.

Honors

In 1891 Canongasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after the artist. When this street merged into another street in 1894, a street in Vienna- Währing, also called Canongasse , was dedicated to Canon . In 1905 a bronze statue of Rudolf Weyr was erected in Vienna's city park near Johannesgasse and Kursalon (Canon monument). At the birthplace Praterstraße 68 and at his home Währingerstraße 81-83 are plaques with busts.

In 1948, on the occasion of 80 years of the Wiener Künstlerhaus, a special stamp with his portrait was issued by the Austrian Post based on a design by Ernst Schrom .

The cycle of life. Ceiling fresco in the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Works

  • Fisherman's Girl (Linz, Castle Museum , Pierer Collection), 1859, oil on canvas, 84.3 × 66.3 cm
  • The Lodge Johannis (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), 1873, oil on canvas, 320 × 208 cm
  • Girl with a Parrot - The Artist's Wife (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1876, oil on canvas, 126 × 84.6 cm
  • Putti building the railway (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), around 1876, oil on canvas, 157 × 280 cm
  • Seated Venus in a fur coat (Vienna, Leopold Museum , inv. No. 2018), 1880, oil on canvas, 118.3 × 82.5 cm
  • 4 lunette images in the University of Vienna
  • 12 lunette pictures depicting the individual areas of the natural sciences in the Natural History Museum , Vienna
  • Cycle of Life (Vienna, Natural History Museum), 1884–85, ceiling painting

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Canon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Hans Canon in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp illustration)
personal data
SURNAME Canon, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strasiripka, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1885
Place of death Vienna