Josef Kinzel

Portrait of a young woman in costume

Josef Kinzel (born May 4, 1852 in Lobenstein / Austrian Silesia , † August 4, 1925 in Spitz an der Donau ) was an Austrian landscape and genre painter.

Josef Kinzel studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Eduard von Engerth , Karl von Blaas , Carl Wurzinger and August Eisenmenger and, from October 25, 1879, at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Alois Gabl and Otto Seitz .

In 1883 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . From 1900 he visited the Lower Austrian Wachau , first Joching , from 1905 Weißenkirchen and from 1919 Spitz an der Donau .

He was mainly concerned with genre painting, but also created landscape paintings.

Many of his works also appeared in the form of woodcuts.

He was awarded the small Golden State Medal in 1903 and the Drasche Prize in 1910.

His daughter Elisabeth Hermine (Liesl) Kinzel (born May 18, 1886 in Vienna, † July 19, 1961 in Spitz an der Donau) became a painter.

literature

• Kinzel Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 221 .
• Emmanuel Benezit [ed.]; Jacques Busse [arr.]: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Nouv. éd., entièrement réfondue = [4. éd.]. Paris: Gründ, 1999 ISBN 2-7000-3020-6  : Vol. 6, p. 221
• Kinzel Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 336.
• Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters works of the nineteenth century. Volume 1, p. 681, Dresden 1895
• Rudolf Schmidt, Das Wiener Künstlerhaus: Eine Chronik 1851–1951, 1951, pp. 86, 162, 189, 237;

Web links

Commons : Josef Kinzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Matriculation Book Academy Munich (Online)
• Josef Kinzel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna