Hermann Burghart

Hermann Burghart - Walhalla, design from 1878 for the opera " Das Rheingold " by Richard Wagner

Hermann Burghart (born April 7, 1834 in Türmitz near Aussig ; † January 23, 1901 in Döbling near Vienna ) was a Bohemian stage designer and court theater painter . He worked as a court theater painter and co-owner of the studio for theater decoration painting “Brioschi, Burghart and Kautsky”, mainly in Vienna.

Life

Hermann Burghart studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1866 he was appointed to the court opera theater as a theater decoration painter .

Around 1866 he became the third co-owner of the successful studio of the theater painter Carlo Brioschi and Johann Kautsky . The company subsequently operated under the name "Brioschi, Burghart and Kautsky, kuk Hoftheatermaler in Vienna" and employed dozens of workers such as carpenters , locksmiths , mechanics and clerks as well as numerous painters such as Georg Janny , Konrad Petrides , Franz Poledne and Leopold Rothaug , Ferdinand Brunner and Alfons Mucha . The studio received orders at home and abroad and supplied, among other things, houses in the German Empire, Bohemia, England and America ( Metropolitan Opera ). Among other things, the studio was responsible for the sets for the Vienna premiere of Tristan and Isolde .

Burghart taught painting at the Vienna Academy, where Erwin Pendl was one of his students.

literature

• Robin Thurlow Lacy: Burghart, Hermann . In: A biographical dictionary of scenographers. 500 BC to 1900 AD Greenwood Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-313-27429-0 , pp. 94 .
• Rudolf Schmidt: Burghart, Hermann . In: Austrian Artist Lexicon. From the beginning to the present . tape 3 . Tusch, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-85063-029-3 , p. 282 .
• Burghart Hermann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 129.
• Hans Vollmer : Burghart, Hermann . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 251 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Hermann Burghart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bořivoj Srba: The set designer Jan Václav Kautský and his work for the Czech stage . In: Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity - Studia minora facultatis philosophicae Univesitatis bruensis roč . Year 41–42, No. 27-28 . Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Brno 1993, ISBN 80-210-0819-9 , p. 69-96 ( hdl.handle.net ).
2. ^ R. Schmidt:  Pendl Erwin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 405.