Josef Püttner
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Josef Carl Berthold Püttner (born July 26, 1821 in Plan , Bohemia , † July 29, 1881 in Vöslau ) was a German - Austrian landscape and marine painter .
life and work
Püttner was initially trained as a porcelain painter in Karlsbad before he moved to Vienna. From 1842 to 1845 he worked as a drawing teacher for Count Zichy in Hungary. During this time he made extensive trips through the country and mainly made landscape pictures. In the years 1846 to 1847 he made study trips to the Netherlands and Italy, where he visited Rome . The trip led to the decision to become a marine painter . In 1850 he traveled to Heligoland via Hamburg. Evidence of a stay in Iceland must be provided, as well as further study trips to North and South America between 1851 and 1853 . a. on board the sailing ships of the Hamburg shipping company JC Godeffroy & Sohn , which gave him free passage. He visited Valparaiso in Chile, Tahiti, Tonga, Peru and Bolivia and on via Panama and the Caribbean (West Indies) to North America. Püttner was mainly active in Vienna, from 1869 in Vöslau.
The artist turned mainly to marine painting and from 1842 regularly exhibited at the exhibitions of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . From 1861 Püttner was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus .
Works (excerpt)
- SM frigate Novara in Canale Grande in Venice , oil on canvas, before 1856, approx. 80 × 120 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
- Sinking of the emigrant ship Austria on September 13, 1858 , 1858, oil on canvas, 112 × 154 cm, German Historical Museum , Berlin, ( dhm.de ).
- The Niagara Falls , 1864, oil on canvas, 79.5 × 119 cm
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Püttner, JCB . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 58–63 ( digitized version ). In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . Part 24, 1872, pp. 58-63.
- Püttner, Josef Carl Bartholomäus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 449 .
- Wladimir Aichelburg: Püttner, Josef Karl Bartholomäus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 326 f. (Direct links on p. 326 , p. 327 ).
- Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Vienna 1979, volume 3, p. K 101.
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Püttner, Josef Carl Bartholomäus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 449 .
- ↑ Simon Weber-Unger: Travel, they say, is a science. Wissenschaftliches Kabinett 2012, Vienna, pp. 29–32, here p. 29 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Vienna 1979, volume 3, p. K 101.
- ↑ Simon Weber-Unger: The Niagara Falls . In: Travel, they say, is a science . Scientific Cabinet, Vienna 2012, p. 31-32 ( archive.org ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Püttner, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Püttner, Josef Carl Berthold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plana |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1881 |
| Place of death | Vöslau |