Joseph Heicke
Joseph Heicke , also Josef Heike (born March 12, 1811 in Vienna ; † November 6, 1861 ibid) was an Austrian animal and landscape painter as well as a lithographer and watercolorist .
life and work
Heicke studied from 1824 to 1826 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and from 1834 participated in the art exhibitions in St. Anna . He went on several study trips, so he was in Italy in 1842 , later in Hungary and the Orient . Heicke was often referred to as one of the few significant artistic descendants of Friedrich Gauermann . However, he was not very inventive with regard to his numerous landscapes with animals, which still betray the sentimental impact of the late Biedermeier period and sometimes lack precision, naturalness and undistortion in the treatment of figural details. This is how his contemporaries judged him, but at the same time it is admitted that Heicke was able to assure himself of the popularity of Viennese social circles with some vividly captured scenes from the revolutionary years of 1848 and 1849 . In addition, he earned attention as one of the most fertile and versatile lithographers of old Viennese stamping. Heicke was also able to enjoy numerous commissions in military circles, especially his full-length equestrian portraits were popular.
Many of Heicke's works are now in Austrian museums (e.g. Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Wien Museum ), but even more are privately owned, which means that the paintings are repeatedly offered at art auctions .
Works (excerpt)
- Portrait of Franz Joseph Heinrich von Schlik, Count of Bassano and Weißkirchen (1789–1862) , 1852. Oil on canvas, 40 × 53 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
- Ivan Forray before his trip to Ortien in 1842 , 1845, watercolor on paper, Hungarian National Museum , Budapest
- Mozart's funeral , 1860, lithograph, Salzburg University Library
- Arabs drinking coffee in front of a tent , 1842, oil on panel, 22 × 27 cm, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Heicke, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, p. 206 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig, 1912.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1923, XVI, 251 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heicke, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heike, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1861 |
| Place of death | Vienna |