Johann Matthias Ranftl

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Johann Matthias Ranftl, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1855
Der kleine Reitersmann (1832), private property
Grave of Johann Matthias Ranftl in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Johann Matthias Ranftl (born January 20, 1804 in Vienna ; † November 1, 1854 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

The artist's grandfather came to Vienna from Regensburg , where the painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch was his best man in 1766 . The parents, Johann Baptist Ranftl and Barbara Ranftl, née Kautz, ran an inn on the Favoritner line . Johann Matthias Ranftl himself was born in the suburb of Wieden No. 125.

Encouraged by his art-loving mother, Ranftl attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1817 , where he learned from Johann Baptist Lampi and Anton Petter . On what was for him a very impressive study trip through Switzerland in 1819 and then through Germany , Ranftl decided to devote himself to landscape painting . After his return to Vienna he became a student of Johann Peter Krafft at the Vienna Academy. In 1826 he had his first successful academy exhibition with a portrait and a history picture .

In 1826 Ranftl went to Russia , where he stayed in Moscow and Saint Petersburg . He found access at court and painted numerous portraits and a cycle of illustrations for Pushkin's Eugene Onegin . After his return, Ranftl created some altarpieces and 15 life-size portraits of the king for the county hall in Varaždin (today Croatia ).

Madonna with Child and Saints

From 1831 Ranftl lived permanently in Vienna. In 1836 he accompanied the Austrian ambassador Prince Paul Esterházy to London . In 1840 he married Aloisia Hartmann, the daughter of a Viennese silk fabric manufacturer. In 1849 Ranftl became a full member of the Vienna Academy. Johann Matthias Ranftl died of the Ruhr in 1854 in the Vienna suburb of Wieden (today Waaggasse 5).

After his death, Ranftl was given a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery . In addition, in 1894 Ranftlgasse in Vienna- Hernals (17th district) and Währing (18th district) was named in honor of the artist.
The Ranftlmühle on the Stimitz in Gößl in the Styrian Ausseerland is also named after him , as he liked to stay there.

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Johann Matthias Ranftl was a painter of the Viennese Biedermeier period . His subjects ranged from landscape painting to portraits and historical and religious altarpieces to genre painting , for which he is still best known today. After 1831, during his time in Vienna, he mainly turned to the genre. Pictures from the rural area and scenes from Vienna were created. A special feature was Ranftl's predilection for depicting dogs , which made him known as a "dog painter" and as a "dog Raffael" . In his last years Ranftl was also intensively involved with printmaking experiments and invented a galvanographic technique, which is named after him as Ranftl's method .

Works

Sleeping young man
  • Portrait of a woman ( Varaždin , Gallery of Old and New Masters, Inv.No. 306), oil on canvas, 78.5 × 65 cm
  • Portrait of a Man (Varaždin, Gallery of Old and New Masters, Inv.No. 307), oil on canvas, 78 × 65 cm
  • Peddling children on the Glacis ( Vienna Museum ), oil on canvas, 50 × 62 cm
  • Mother with children (Wien Museum, inv.no.10.147), 1832, oil on panel
  • Der kleine Reitersmann (private collection), 1832, oil on cardboard, 28 × 22.8 cm
  • Two tobacco smokers (private property), 1833, oil on panel, 38.8 × 32 cm
  • The summer and winter game ( St. Pölten , Museum Niederösterreich , inv. No. 6235), 1834, oil on cardboard, 39.7 × 48.4 cm
  • St. Oswald before the decisive battle against Cadwalla (Vienna, Altmannsdorfer Church ), 1834, high altar picture
  • The great Zwettlerhof (Wien Museum), 1838, watercolor, 19.5 × 28 cm
  • Flood (Wien Museum), 1838, oil on canvas, 87.5 × 114 cm
  • Children in the straw with a dog (Wien Museum), 1839, oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
  • Dead ptarmigan (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), around 1840, oil on cardboard, 26 × 31 cm
  • Two peasant women (Trieste, Museo Morpurgo ), 1840, oil on canvas, 66 × 53 cm
  • The Rest of the Peasants (Wien Museum), 1845, oil on canvas, 97 × 82 cm
  • Hunters and Girls (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1847, oil on panel, 60 × 52.5 cm
  • Hunters with black cocks above Berchtesgaden, in the background the Watzmann (private property), 1850, oil on panel, 37 × 28 cm
  • Rest of the pilgrims (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1852, oil on panel, 67 × 86 cm
  • War orphans (Wien Museum), 1853, oil on canvas, 50 × 62 cm
  • Playing game in Baden-Baden (private property), 1853, oil on canvas

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. on www.verbundlinie.at (PDF; 641 kB), accessed on June 28, 2012