Johann Nepomuk Passini

Johann Nepomuk Passini, portrayed by Peter Fendi , 1824

Jophann Baptist Passini, lithograph by Franz Eybl , 1845

Attack by Dragoon Regiment No. 3 against Hungarian insurgents in the Battle of Raab , around 1850.

Resting prisoners , 1850.

Johann Nepomuk Passini (born September 4, 1798 in Vienna , † January 14, 1874 in Graz ) was an Austrian engraver , lithographer , genre and landscape painter .

Life

Initially, Passini stuck to copperplate engravings and lithographs , which he made from paintings by Thomas Ender , Peter Fendi , Johann Adam Klein and Friedrich Gauermann . Later he turned to oil painting , where he mainly preferred landscapes and genre scenes, but also the military subject . His works are now in the Albertina graphic collection , in the Vienna Museum , in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Universalmuseum Johanneum and in the Army History Museum in Vienna.

Johann Nepomuk Passini was the father of the painter and engraver Ludwig Passini (1832–1903).

Works (excerpt)

• Engravings for the following edited volumes:
  • Family Association of the Most High Imperial House , 1834
  • Studies from Upper Austria, Styria and Salzburg

• Lithographs for the following edited volumes:
  • Pictures from Gleichenberg , 1856
  • Views from the spa in Styria

• Oil painting
  • Attack of the Dragoon Regiment No. 3 against Hungarian insurgents in the Battle of Raab on June 28, 1849 , around 1850, oil on canvas, approx. 45 × 70 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • Resting prisoners , 1850, oil on canvas, approx. 70 × 60 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Passini, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 21st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 323–326 ( digitized version ).
• Passini, Johann Nepomuk . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 286 .
• Passini, Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978,ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, p. 335 f. (Direct links on p. 335 , p. 336 ).

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