Hermann Eichler

Episode from the German Peasants' War - Count Helfenstein at the foot of his burning castle, mocked by peasants

Hermann Eichler (* 1839 in Vienna ; † September 17, 1901 there ) was an Austrian portrait , genre and history painter .

Eichler studied from October 18, 1856 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . In 1864 he became a private student of Christian Ruben in Vienna. He spent the period from 1869 to 1874 with a study visit to Rome, later he worked in Munich. In 1892 Eichler returned to Vienna.

Eichler had been a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus since 1868 . He took part in art exhibitions in Vienna , Prague , Breslau and Berlin in 1866 and later .

Eichler created portraits, historical, landscape and genre pictures. In 1870 he painted the altarpiece “Farewell of the Apostles Peter and Paul” for the Ulrichskirche in Vienna .

literature

• Eichler, Hermann . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 408 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Eichler, Hermann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 233.
• Rudolf Schmidt: The Viennese artist house. A chronicle 1861–1951 . Society of Visual Artists Vienna, Vienna 1951, p. 48
• Dankmar Trier: Eichler, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 509.

Web links

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

• Hermann Eichler in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Entry register at the Munich Art Academy