Johannes Mayerhofer

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Self-Portrait (around 1900)

Johannes Mayerhofer (born November 7, 1859 in Baden , Lower Austria ; † April 9, 1925 there ) was an Austrian academic painter and sculptor as well as magazine editor and folklore author . Among other things, he made decorative paintings and altarpieces , wrote and illustrated numerous magazine articles and worked as a court reporter.

life and career

Johannes Mayerhofer was born in Baden near Vienna in 1859 as the son of the wagon entrepreneur and fiaker Ferdinand Mayerhofer . His talent for drawing and wood carving made itself felt at a young age . In 1878 he took part in the occupation campaign in Bosnia and made drawings for German newspapers. In 1881 he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where he studied under Josef Mathias Trenkwald . Later he attended the medal school . After completing his studies, Mayerhofer was a supplent at the drawing and modeling school in Vienna and taught in Essegg and Steyr , among others . He also carried out restoration work and worked as a decorative painter as well as a stage and costume designer . Among his most famous creations were decorative paintings in the former orphanage church and a ceiling painting in Auhof Castle near Türnitz .

In 1891 Mayerhofer returned to Baden, where he became a member of the Kunstgewerbeverein and gave lectures on perspective and style at the painting and drawing school . A year later he founded the "Association of Lower Austrian Friends of the Country" with the brothers Carl and Gustav Calliano . For the first year of the club magazine, he wrote more than a dozen self-illustrated articles, including "Baden Costume Pictures". In the following years he wrote folkloristic and cultural history , later news journalistic texts for various magazines and newspapers, most prominently for the Illustrirte Wiener Extrablatt . In December 1900 Mayerhofer was appointed curator of the Lower Austrian museum collections, for which he mainly bought traditional costumes and children's toys until 1902 . Between 1902 and 1909 he published the Freie Badener Bezirks-Rundschau , a political "combat paper" in which he railed against local greats.

During the First World War , Mayerhofer served as the post commander of the Baden vigilante group . After leaving little lasting artistic or literary work in later years, he married Aloisia Flehsl in 1918. On April 9, 1925, Johannes Mayerhofer died of a heart attack at the age of 65 .

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"Amasdoktor": Illustration for an article about the Amastrager von Hainfeld

Although Johannes Mayerhofer is described as a versatile artist whose study trips led to several countries of the monarchy , his work did not achieve lasting fame. In addition to numerous magazine illustrations , he produced paintings , etchings , silver drifting , wax reliefs , medals and memorial heads . Part of his estate, consisting of sketch books and notebooks, paper cuttings and self-illustrated newspaper articles, is administered by the Baden City Archives . The pieces come from two private collections bought in 1998 and 2008, as well as from the antique trade .

Visual arts

Magazine articles

  • from 1892: Journal of the Association of Lower Austrian Regional Friends (editing, reports and illustrations)
  • 1896: Journal for Austrian Folklore (reports and illustrations)
  • 1897–1904: Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt (reports and illustrations)
  • 1902–1909: Free Baden District Rundschau (editing, reports and illustrations)
  • New People's Press , Wiener Neustadt (editor)

Mayerhofer also wrote four plays .

literature

  • Karl Magnus Klier : People's life in the country around Vienna. Customs and costumes. Descriptions in words and pictures by Johannes Mayerhofer, collected, supplemented and provided with a life picture by Karl M. Klier. Manutiuspresse , Vienna 1969, pp. 86-89.
  • Johannes Mayerhofer (autobiographical): Twenty-five years with pen and pen. Johannes Mayerhofer. In: Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , edition of March 10, 1901, p. 15.
  • Walter Perko-Greiffenbühl: Johannes Mayerhofer (1859-1925). Painter - visual artist - journalist. Catalog sheets of the Rollettmuseum Baden, No. 7 (1997).

Web links

Commons : Johannes Mayerhofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karl Magnus Klier : People's life in the country around Vienna. Customs and costumes. Descriptions in words and pictures by Johannes Mayerhofer, collected, supplemented and provided with a life picture by Karl M. Klier. Manutiuspresse , Vienna 1969, pp. 86-89.
  2. ^ Johannes Mayerhofer (autobiographical): Twenty-five years with pen and pen. Johannes Mayerhofer. In: Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , edition of March 10, 1901, p. 15.
  3. ↑ a b c Johannes Mayerhofer in the literature archive of the ÖNB. Austrian National Library , accessed on September 8, 2017 .
  4. ^ Johannes Mayerhofer's estate. Baden City Archives, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mayerhofer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1925
Place of death Baden (Lower Austria)