Josef Berres
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
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.
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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 |