Joseph Kreutzinger
Joseph Kreutzinger (born January 10, 1757 in Vienna ; † July 14, 1829 there ) was an Austrian portrait painter .
Life
All that is known about Kreutzinger's life is that from 1768 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under St. Anna, where he was a student of Friedrich Heinrich Füger . He stayed in Munich and Saint Petersburg and returned to Vienna in 1793. Joseph Kreutzinger became a court and chamber painter here .
Joseph Kreutzinger was Hugo von Hofmannsthal's great-great-uncle .
1936 in Vienna- Meidling the Kreutzinger street named in honor of the artist.
power
Kreutzinger is an unjustifiably forgotten artist, because the few surviving paintings by his hand are consistently of an artistically high level. As a contemporary of Heinrich Friedrich Füger , however, he is constantly overshadowed, if he receives any attention in art history. Kreutzinger was one of the most popular portrait painters of the Viennese nobility and bourgeoisie. In terms of style, it belonged to the Viennese late classicism, which took on echoes of the French late rococo. In Kreutzinger's work, as with Füger, influences of the English portrait painting of Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough can be seen . Parallels can also be seen with the German-Swiss painter Anton Graff .
His portraits are characterized by intense coloring and are also interesting because they document the social life of his time. An essential aspect of his portraits is the psychological penetration of the model, which is paired with a high-quality painting technique. Only a few artists in his vicinity have understood how to work out the individuality of the person with comparable clarity, whereby he renounced beautiful painting.
Works
- Portrait of Emperor Franz II / I (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ), around 1820, oil on canvas, 134 × 103 cm
- Portrait of Karl Ferdinand Graf Kinsky (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), around 1790, oil on canvas
- Portrait of Franz II , 1806
- Portrait of Ferenc Kazinczy (Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ), 1808, oil on canvas, 51 × 45 cm
- Portrait Eva Passi (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), around 1810, oil on canvas
- Portrait of Henryk Lubomirski
- Portrait of Empress Karoline Auguste , Museums of the Vienna Movables Depot
- Portrait of the doctor Professor Prohaska , Vienna Museum
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kreutzinger, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 211 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl Weiß: Kreutzinger, Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 149.
- Schöny: Kreutzinger Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 268.
- Nora Keil: Kreutzinger, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 28 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Sabine Grabner: More than Biedermeier. Classicism, Romanticism and Realism in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-3145-1 .
Web links
- Works by Joseph Kreutzinger at Zeno.org .
- Portrait of Henryk Lubomirski
- Portrait of Emperor Franz II, 1790
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Grabner: More than Biedermeier. Classicism, Romanticism and Realism in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Munich 2006, p. 44
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kreutzinger, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kreutzinger, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1829 |
| Place of death | Vienna |