Josef Feid

Josef Feid

The rear Langbathsee

Josef Feid's grave

Almabtrieb 1855

Joseph Michael Feid (born February 21, 1806 in Vienna , † April 8, 1870 in Weidling , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Josef Feid was born in the then Viennese suburb of Wieden No. 519 (today Rechts Wienzeile 30) as the son of Michael Veit, a school clerk at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . Feid first studied architecture under Peter von Nobile at the academy , but then turned to landscape painting . From 1828 he exhibited at the exhibitions of the academy, from 1850 also at the New Austrian Art Association. Feid was good friends with the famous landscape painter Friedrich Gauermann , with whom he also worked.

Josef Feid was buried in the Weidlinger Friedhof . The Feidweg in Weidling and the Feidstraße in Vienna-Atzgersdorf were named in his honor.

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Josef Feid was a pure landscape painter who preferred to depict motifs from the area around Vienna and the Salzkammergut . Particularly typical for him is the design of forest landscapes, which in 1903 earned him the name “Forest Man from the Vienna Woods” by the art critic Ludwig Hevesi .

Works

• Dusk at Greifenstein Castle (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich , inv. No. 6354), 1832, oil on panel, 35.5 × 47.7 cm
• Aggstein castle ruins (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 7390), around 1830–35, oil on canvas, 52.6 × 65.8 cm
• The rear Langbathsee (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , inv.no.5721), 1834, oil on panel, 33.5 × 45 cm

literature

• Feid Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 290.
• Kábdebo:  Feid, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 599 f.

Web links

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

• Entry on Josef Feid in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )