Johann Baptist Wengler
Johann Baptist Wengler (born June 4, 1816 in St. Radegund ; † April 6, 1899 in Aigen in Salzburg ) was an Austrian painter of the Viennese Biedermeier period .
Life
Wengler studied at the Vienna Art Academy and then taught as a drawing teacher. He was a pupil and friend of the painter Johann Matthias Ranftl and with him committed to rural genre painting .
After traveling to Croatia, Russia and Slovakia, Wengler traveled to North America in 1850, where he met the Indians of the Sioux , Chippewa , Winnipeg and Menominee , and made numerous watercolors. In 1851 he involuntarily returned to Vienna because of a fever. In 1875 Wengler returned to North America, where he financed himself mainly through religious Catholic art, which met the conservative tastes of many Americans. Wengler returned to Austria in 1888.
He spent his old age with his sister in Aigen near Salzburg, where he is also buried. Most of his estate is in Upper Austria. State Museum. His great-nephew Alois Wengler (1905–1989) was a regionally important wood sculptor, from whom numerous works have been preserved, especially in the upper Innviertel.
Works
- 1846: Hungarian peasant wedding, oil on canvas
- 1847: Innviertler Landlertanz, oil on canvas, Linz, Upper Austria. State Museum
- 1848: A peasant cream puff ("The Boastful"), oil on wood, Linz, Upper Austria. State Museum
- 1848: “Pay, please!”, Oil on cardboard, Linz, Upper Austria. State Museum
- 1850: 45 watercolors with portraits of natives and views of different places in Missouri, Linz, Upper Austria. State Museum
- 1852: Panorama of St. Radegund
- 1854: The bowling alley, oil on canvas, Linz, Upper Austria. State Museum
- 1857: Mother with child on Hochalm in the Salzkammergut, oil on canvas
- 1872: Reaper at midday, oil on canvas, Linz, Upper Austria. State Museum
Exhibitions
- 2008: Johann Baptist Wengler - of Cowboys and Indians , Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus , Ried im Innkreis
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wengler, Johann Baptist . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 54th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1886, p. 289 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hermann Ubell : Johann Baptist Wengler (1816–1899). For the exhibition of a selection of his works in the Museum Francisco-Carolinum in the spring of 1909 ( digitized version ).
- Wengler, Johann Baptist . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 375-376 .
- Hans Plank (Ed.): Johann Baptist Wengler. A Biedermeier painter . Upper Austrian regional publisher, Ried im Innkreis 1966.
- Lothar Schultes: Johann Baptist Wengler. An Innviertel among Indians. In: Dieter Buchhart, Gerard W. van Bussel (eds.): Go West. Of cowboys and Indians . Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-15-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Baptist Wengler in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kinsky Wien ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1846: Hungarian Peasant Wedding, accessed May 4, 2009
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture Juliane Mikoletzky: The American Frontier around 1850/51, accessed on May 4, 2009
- ↑ artnet 1857: Mother with child on Hochalm in the Salzkammergut, accessed on May 4, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wengler, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Radegund , Upper Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1899 |
| Place of death | Aigen , Salzburg |