Josef Berres

Josef Berres, 1900

Hussars billeting in a Hungarian village , around 1890.

Josef Berres Edler von Perez (born May 30, 1821 in Lemberg , † May 22, 1912 in Vienna ) was an Austrian genre , military and animal painter .

Life

Josef Berres was the son of the physician of the same name, he served first in the kk - Army and made the campaign of 1866 against Prussia as a regimental commander of the cuirassiers No. 4 with the rank of. Supreme with. From 1871 he was a member (No. 120) of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler" in Vienna.

After the war, Berres was a rank major general in pension and then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in order to devote himself entirely to painting. There he became a student of the well-known genre painter Carl Theodor von Piloty . Berres is attested to have a high talent for color and a high production of paintings, mainly military episodes, but also depictions of hunting, horses and dogs.

Works

Hussars billeting in a Hungarian village , around 1890, oil on canvas, approx. 60 × 140 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
Hungarian Horse Market , Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Vienna

literature

Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 3, Leipzig 1909, p. 477.
Berres-Perez, Joseph von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 77.
Ernst Kollros: Joseph Berres Edler von Perez. An old Austrian general and painter with a connection to Upper Austria. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2012, pp. 207–214, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at.

Web links

Commons : Josef Berres - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Berres-Perez, Joseph von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 77.
↑ see ADLER yearbook 1872 or the company's register (with photo).
↑ Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 3. Leipzig 1909, p. 477.

personal data
SURNAME	Berres, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berres, Josef Edler von Perez (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lviv
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1912
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Berres-Perez, Joseph von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 77.

[2] see ADLER yearbook 1872 or the company's register (with photo).

[3] Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 3. Leipzig 1909, p. 477.