Johann Nepomuk Höfel

Johann Nepomuk Höfel: Altarpiece in the parish church of Unteralb , Lower Austria: St. Benedict, 1859/61

Grave of Johann Nepomuk Höfel in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof

Johann Nepomuk Höfel (born May 8, 1788 in Ofen , Kingdom of Hungary , † January 18, 1864 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Höfel, older brother of the copper engraver Blasius Höfel , studied from 1804 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Johann Ignaz Krafft . In 1818 he embarked on a trip to Italy that took him to Naples , and then settled in Vienna. There he was initially occupied with portrait painting, later he mainly created history and altar paintings.

Works (selection)

The sons of Diagoras of Rhodus victorious in the Olympic Games (1820)
St. Martinus and St. Anthony of Padua (altarpiece for a church in Hungary)
The Transfiguration of Saint Magdalena
Portraits of St. Stephanus, St. Aegidius, St. Michael , as well as King Matthias Corvius , von Grillparzer or Johann Ladislaus Pyrker

Höfel was buried in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof . His son Theodor Höfel also worked as a painter in Vienna.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Höfel, Johann Nepomuk . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 97 f. ( Digitized version ).
Höfel, Johann Nepomuk . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 188-189 .
Höfel, Johann Nepomuk. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 350.
Heinz Schöny: Life dates of Viennese painters - new or corrected. In: Viennese history sheets. 44, 1989, p. 90.

Web links

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

Johann Nepomuk Höfel on artnet

Notes and individual references

↑ The Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire. accidentally gives 1786 as the year of birth.
↑ Hoefel, Johann Nepomuk . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 2 : Gaab – Lezla . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1896, p. 187 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - "born in Budapest in 1786").
^ Johann Nepomuk Höfel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

personal data
SURNAME	Höfel, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH	Furnace , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1864
Place of death	Vienna , Austrian Empire

[1] The Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire. accidentally gives 1786 as the year of birth.

[2] Hoefel, Johann Nepomuk . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 2 : Gaab – Lezla . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1896, p. 187 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - "born in Budapest in 1786").

[3] Johann Nepomuk Höfel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna