Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger

Arcadian landscape with a Gothic castle

Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger (born May 22, 1779 in Vienna , † January 26, 1853 there ) was an Austrian landscape painter and art teacher.

Schödlberger showed a talent for drawing as a child and was trained as a drawing teacher. From 1797 he worked as an assistant teacher at the St. Anna drawing school. From 1799 he taught as a drawing teacher at the Zoller secondary school in Vienna- Neubau , where he became friends with Anton Petter , who later became director of the Vienna Academy.

From 1801 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1803 he visited Upper Austria and Salzburg on a study trip.

In 1815 he was appointed a member of the Vienna Academy and taught there from 1816. Among his students was u. a. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller .

In 1817 he went on a study trip to Italy , visited Rome , Naples and Florence .

He copied works by Claude Lorrain and Jacob van Ruysdael in the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden . . His landscape paintings were bought in the art collections of Franz II and Ludwig I of Bavaria .

literature

• Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999,ISBN 3-7001-2803-7, p. 8 f. (Direct links on p. 8 , p. 9 ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schödlberger, Johann Nepomuk . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 70–75 ( digitized version ).
• German Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 9 P. 130 (digitized version)

Web links

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

• Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)