Josef Hoffmann (painter)
Josef Hoffmann (born July 22, 1831 in Vienna ; † January 31, 1904 there ) was an Austrian painter and set designer .
Life
Hoffmann received drawing lessons at an early age and was a student of Sebastian Wegmayr and spent a few months at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . At the age of 18 he traveled with a friend of his father's through Styria , Croatia and Serbia, and in 1850 to Persia. After returning to Vienna, he joined Carl Rahl's studio in 1851 and remained his student until 1856. He then traveled to Venice via Munich and Tyrol , to Greece in 1857 and to Rome in 1858 , where he stayed for six years. This is where the large-scale ideal Greek landscapes emerged or were designed, such as: the remains of the sanctuary of Venus on the road to Eleusis ; the Old Athens to Periclean ; Athens as seen from the Queen's Gardens ; the tomb of Anacreon ; and the Sabiner Mountains near Olevano .
In 1864 he returned to Vienna. From 1869 on he painted the decorations for the Magic Flute for the new Vienna Court Opera , then those for Freischütz and Romeo and Julie . Later he painted eight zone pictures in the Palais Epstein in Vienna (1870–1873; no longer preserved), landscape wall paintings in the Hernstein Castle , the four joys in the Kursalon in the Vienna City Park , five pictures from old Athens for Baron Sina , the designs for the decorations for the opening of the Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus in Bayreuth in 1876, a cycle on the Ring of the Nibelung for King Ludwig II of Bavaria , the sketches for the decorations for Rheingold and Die Walküre for the court opera theater, several landscapes from the educational epochs of the earth's surface for the Natural history museum , two wall paintings for the parliament building in Vienna and the oil paintings : From the Bohemian jungle , Unter ruins and King Lear in the storm . He was a representative of the heroic - historical style in landscape painting . From 1887 he again traveled to Tunis, Algiers and the Balearic Islands, to Turkey in 1889, then to Egypt in 1891 and from 1893 to 1894 a trip around the world via India, Java, China, Japan and North America.
Hoffmann was married to the writer Nina Hoffmann-Matscheko (1844–1914), née Matscheko.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Hoffmann, Joseph (I.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, p. 174 ( digitized version ).
- Hoffmann, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 266-267 .
- Hoffmann Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 377.
- Oswald Georg Bauer: Josef Hoffmann. The set designer for the first Bayreuth Festival. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06786-8 ( review ).
- Manfred Knedlik: Hoffmann, Josef . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 74, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 , p. 106.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ In the literature predominantly stated as January 31st, but occasionally also January 30th
- ↑ In the literature mainly given in 1869, but also occasionally in 1866
- ↑ Production design: Der Freischütz. theatermuseum.at, accessed on May 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Josef Hoffmann - The educational epochs of the earth and character images for Asia and Central Africa. Cycle of nine oil paintings executed for the new Imperial and Royal Court of Natural History museum. ( objekte.nhm-wien.ac.at ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1904 |
| Place of death | Vienna |