Hans Temple
Hans Temple (born July 7, 1857 in Littau , † December 3, 1931 in Vienna ) was a Moravian - Austrian genre and portrait painter .
life and work
Hans Temple studied at the Vienna Academy , his teachers were Hans Canon and Heinrich von Angeli , later he went to Paris , where he was trained by Mihály Munkácsy for two years . The main field of the painter were portraits of contemporary well-known artists in the vicinity of her studio . For example, he painted the sculptor Viktor Tilgner while working on the Mozart monument ( Vienna Burggarten ) and his teacher Munkácsy in his studio while working on his painting "Christ before Pilatus" (privately owned).
Temple also received official commissions from the Viennese court, such as the painting “Congratulations from the Austro-Hungarian Army to Emperor Franz Joseph I on Archduke Friedrich's 85th birthday ” . The painting “Divine Service in the War Hospital in the Vienna Künstlerhaus ” was probably preceded by an official commission from the imperial family. In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . In 1898, Temple painted, commissioned by Duchess Alexandrine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a full-figured depiction of the wedding celebrations at the marriage of Duke Ernst II to Duchess Alexandrine in the palace chapel in Karlsruhe on May 3, 1842, which contains 34 portrait figures. The main work of Hans Temple took place in Vienna, where he died on December 3, 1931. His grave is in the Protestant section of the Vienna Central Cemetery . In 1959 the Hans-Temple-Gasse in Vienna- Liesing (23rd district) was named after him.
Works (excerpt)
- Divine service in the war hospital in the Vienna Künstlerhaus . Oil on canvas, 1915. Army History Museum , Vienna
- Congratulations from the Austro-Hungarian Army to Emperor Franz Joseph on his 85th birthday . Oil on canvas, 1915. Army History Museum, Vienna
- Reclining female nude . Oil on canvas, 39 × 50 cm, private collection
- The love letter , around 1900, oil on wood, 38.5 ×, 24.5 cm, Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications
- Portrait of Mihály von Munkácsy , oil on wood, 53 × 65 cm, Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba
- Portrait of Alajos Strobl , around 1880, oil on canvas, 111 × 141 cm, Hungarian National Gallery , Budapest
- Portrait of Károly Pulszky , 1884, oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery
- Portrait of Louise Wagner , 2nd wife of Otto Wagner ; 1888
Divine service in the war hospital , 1915
Congratulations from the Austro-Hungarian Army to Emperor Franz Joseph on his 85th birthday, 1915
The love letter , around 1900
The actor Adolf von Sonnenthal , 1895
Portrait of Louise Wagner , 1888
Portrait of Károly Pulszky, 1884
literature
- Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig, 1912.
- Robert Janás: Hans Temple. A contribution to the history of German-Moravian painting in the 19th century . Opuscula historiae artium, F 43. Brno 1999, pp. 37-47. ISSN 1211-7390
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1938, XXXII, 518
- ↑ Commons: Hans Temple grave, Vienna, 2018.jpg
- ↑ Search for the dead in the Protestant cemetery in Simmering
Web links
- Hans Temple in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Temple, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moravian-Austrian genre and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Litovel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1931 |
| Place of death | Vienna |