Johann Fischbach

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Johann Fischbach, etching by Franz Xaver Stöber , after Josef Danhauser , 1834

Johann (Franz) Fischbach (born April 5, 1797 in Grafenegg in Lower Austria , † June 19, 1871 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Johann Fischbach was born the son of a Countess Breuner steward and studied at the Vienna Academy , which in 1821 awarded him the Grand Prize for an "ideal landscape". He came to Salzburg in 1840 and worked here as a recognized painter who had a lasting influence on art life. He was also instrumental in founding the local art association and ran a small academy here, in which Josef Mayburger , Hans Makart's father and his brother-in-law Johann Rüssemayer also took part, and Hans (Johann) Makart himself made his first attempts at painting here as a child. Fischbach played a key role in promoting Josef Mayburger's first training. His Picturesque Views of Salzburg and Upper Austria , which were reproduced as steel engravings, became particularly well known . In 1851 Fischbach built his own villa in Salzburg-Aigen (now known as the Fischbachvilla ), surrounded by a spacious park, which he completely designed, in the Swiss house style . After the early death of his extremely talented son August, Fischbach fled Salzburg deeply affected and now spent the last decade of his life in Munich, where he died in 1871.

Fischbach, along with Moritz von Schwind and Ludwig Richter, is one of the most respected representatives of the Austrian Biedermeier , who, with high painterly sensitivity, above all depicts the comfort, the dreamy and soulful, but never gives up the reference to reality. In the constant search for an "ideal world" and a perfect harmony between nature and man, he finds these ideals of Romanticism and Biedermeier most likely to be realized in rural life. He shows an enthusiastic love for the forest and alpine life, the rugged high mountains and rural landscapes and paints fishermen, smugglers and hunters, shepherds and dairymaid in the landscape without ever falling into the smoothness of a salon-like painting. His cloud studies were and are confused with the very related studies of Adalbert Stifter .

Fischbach mostly painted landscapes, but also tried his hand at genre , portraits , architectural pieces and still lifes . He was a conscientious draftsman , which he particularly demonstrated in his charcoal drawings of the forest trees in Germany , the reproduction of which through photography made his name known in wider circles. In the Neue Pinakothek in Munich there is an important picture of him, the part near Salzburg . He also particularly valued small-format watercolors that do justice to his poetic qualities in every way.

Works (selection)

  • View of Salzburg with the Kapuzinerberg , 1844

  • Vesperbrot , 1831

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personal data
SURNAME Fischbach, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischbach, Johann Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenegg , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1871
Place of death Munich