Josef Plank (painter, 1815)
Josef Plank (born August 9, 1815 in Hall in Tirol ; † January 13, 1901 in Vienna ) was an Austrian portrait and history painter .
life and work
Josef Plank was born as the son of master potter Josef Plank and his wife Gertraud, née Kirchmair, born in Hall. His talent for drawing was already evident in elementary school. He did not attend middle school and is said to have trained with an insignificant painter in Hall. For military service he came to an Kaiserjäger regiment, where he was mainly used in the office because of his beautiful handwriting. He attracted the attention of his superiors with smaller paintings, decorative disks, coats of arms and the like for shooting ranges. The Kaiserjäger Colonel Heinrich von Roßbach became his sponsor, and Plank created portraits of several families of officers.
With the support of Roßbach he was able to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and studied with Peter von Cornelius and Josef Stieler . After two years he returned to Innsbruck. In 1845/46 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Leopold Kupelwieser and Joseph von Führich , where he was trained as a history and fresco painter in the style of the Nazarenes . He also worked as a portrait painter, on the recommendation of his Tyrolean patrons, mainly in military circles. Plank stayed in Vienna and ran a studio at Gumpendorfer Strasse 29 in the 6th district . He was regularly represented in the monthly exhibitions of the Vienna Artists' Association.
When Führich and Kupelwieser painted the Altlerchenfeld parish church from 1854 to 1861 , Plank was involved alongside Karl Blaas and Karl Mayer . From then on he devoted himself entirely to religious history painting and created frescoes and above all altarpieces for churches throughout Austria-Hungary, including the Franciscan Church in Laibach (1861), the Fiecht Collegiate Church (1875) or the parish church Mistelbach (1880), but also in Egypt or for the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. He hardly painted any portraits any more and instead tried his hand at landscapes .
When he was already living in Vienna, he married a Maria from Hall. The couple's only daughter died at a young age. Plank was friends with Friedrich von Amerling and went on a study trip to Italy in 1870. His student was Anton Jehly . In 1901 he died after a short illness and was buried at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof .
literature
- Erich Egg: Plank, Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 115 f. (Direct links on p. 115 , p. 116 ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Plank, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 396 ( digitized version ).
- F. Waldner: Josef Plank, academ. Painter (1815–1901). A life sketch. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , August 21, 1905, pp. 1–3 (online at ANNO ). , Continued. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , August 22, 1905, pp. 1–3 (online at ANNO ). , End. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , 23 August 1905, pp. 1–3 (online at ANNO ).
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SURNAME | Plank, Josef |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plank, Joseph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1815 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hall in Tirol |
DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1901 |
Place of death | Vienna |