Johann Manschgo

Johann Manschgo (also Johann Manschko , born September 19, 1800 in Weyer , † January 19, 1867 in Troppau ) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter .

The Vacation Pass , 1846

Life

Manschgo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and participated in their exhibitions from 1826. He was also active as a poet and belonged to the circle of friends around the painter Moritz von Schwind and the composer Franz Schubert . In 1833 he followed Schwind to Munich , where he spent eleven years and continued his studies at the art academy there. Returned to Vienna in 1844, he worked as a portrait and genre painter. From 1854 he taught drawing at the lower secondary school in Opava and set up his studio there. In addition to miniatures , watercolors , oil paintings and illustrations , large-format altarpieces were also created there .

Works (selection)

Sacrifice of the Virgin in the Temple (1847), parish church of St. Florian, Hanfthal, Laa an der Thaya , Lower Austria

• The Vacation Pass (1846), oil on canvas, 73 × 95 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
• Portraits of Baron and Baroness von Handel born. Countess von Armansperg (1837), oil on canvas, 79 × 63 cm.
• Sacrifice of the Virgin in the Temple (1847), oil on canvas, side altar paintings in the Church of St. Florian in Hanfthal , Lower Austria .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Manschgo, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, p. 394 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1930, XXIV, 32 f.
• G. Wacha:  Mannschgo (Manschko), Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 61.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the website of the Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (PDF; 164 kB)
2. ^ Viribus Unitis. Annual report 2011 of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902551-28-3 , p. 95 f.
3. ↑ on the website of the Hampel auction house ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ on the web presence of the parishes Hanfthal and Wulzeshofen