Hermann Torggler

Portrait of Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf by Hermann Torggler, 1915

Hermann Torggler (born February 27, 1878 in Graz , † April 1, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian portrait painter .

life and work

Torggler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Wilhelm von Diez and Gabriel von Hackl . He was initially strongly influenced by the portrait painting of Franz von Lenbach . Torggler received the State Prize in Graz in 1908 and moved to Vienna in the same year. A year later he went on a study trip to Paris . Shortly afterwards he created a series of ideal portraits for the episode “The Art of Color” published by FA Ackermann-München, including Kaiser Wilhelm II , William Shakespeare , Friedrich Schiller , Richard Wagner , Ludwig van Beethoven , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert .

During the First World War , Torggler was a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian War Press Quarters (admitted on January 3, 1915; listed on the registry until October 1918). In accordance with the regulations of the war press headquarters, he mainly made portraits of "the senior leaders, particularly distinguished officers and men in the crew" during this time . Several of these works are now in the collections of the Army History Museum in Vienna.

Torggler's work was of high quality and very popular with the Viennese court circle and the upper middle class. He portrayed Princess Eleonore Auersperg -Goldegg, Prince Hugo Weriand Windisch-Graetz , Princesses Lotte and Netti von Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen , Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg , Colonel General Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , and many more.

Works (excerpt)

Portrait of Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , 1915. Oil on canvas, 80 × 66 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.

literature

Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1939, volume 33, p. 289.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 184.
^ Adalbert Stifter Verein (ed.): Muses to the Front! Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918. Exhibition catalog, Munich, 2003, volume 2, p. 10
↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Leipzig 1939, volume 33, p. 289.
^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 64.

personal data
SURNAME	Torggler, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1939
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 184.

[2] Adalbert Stifter Verein (ed.): Muses to the Front! Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918. Exhibition catalog, Munich, 2003, volume 2, p. 10

[Thieme-3] Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Leipzig 1939, volume 33, p. 289.

[4] Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 64.