Johann Frankenberger

Portrait of a lady against a landscape background

Johann Frankenberger (born April 3, 1807 in Hadamar ; † April 30, 1874 in Vienna ) worked as a portrait, animal and genre painter as well as an etcher and lithographer in Germany and Austria.

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Frankenberger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Josef Redl the Younger , Johann Nepomuk Ender and Carl Gsellhofer . In 1828 he received the Graf Czernin Prize.

After completing his studies, he worked in Limburg an der Lahn , Wiesbaden , Mainz and Braunfels , a. a. as court painter to the Princely Family Solms-Braunfels . From 1838 he was based in Vienna, living at Fleischmarkt 12. Johann Frankenberger was a member of the Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Vienna.

He painted portraits of people from the German and Austrian nobility, high officials and officers, people from the Middle East, as well as genre and animal pictures. He published some portraits in the form of lithographs. He created his self-portrait as an etching.

literature

• Cyriak Bodenstein: One Hundred Years of Art History in Vienna 1788–1888. A ceremony on the occasion of the Säcular celebration of the Pension Association of Visual Artists Vienna. Gerold, Vienna 1888, pp. 62–63 ( digitized version ).
• Frankenberger, Johann . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 380–381 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Frankenberger, Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 346.

Web links

Commons : Johann Frankenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johann Frankenberger in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Remarks

1. ^ Directory of the full members of the Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Vienna. Vienna 1839, p. 9 ( books.google.pl ).