Joseph Petzl
Joseph Petzl (born December 23, 1803 in Munich ; † April 23, 1871 there ) was a German genre painter .
Life
Petzl was a typical figure of the Biedermeier era , who documented his everyday life, his travels and love adventures in a wealth of pencil drawings that are now in the Munich City Museum. From May 1821 he studied at the Art Academy in Munich with Robert Langer. In 1828 he embarked on a longer journey, which initially took him to the "Dürer Festival" in Nuremberg. He stayed in Berlin for a year and was a student of Carl Begas . Since November 1829 he lived in Dresden, where he made friends with the Norwegian landscape painter Thomas Fearnley and the genre painter Friedrich Bernhard Westphal from Schleswig . In November 1830 he emigrated with Westphal to Schleswig, where both continued their social activities. In July 1831, Petzl traveled to Copenhagen. He returned to Munich via Kiel, Schleswig and Düsseldorf in September 1831, where he renewed his friendship with Thomas Fearnley, who had been in Munich for a year.
In September Petzl and Fearnley emigrated to Rome with the Danish genre painter Vilhelm Bendz . Crossing the Alps was so exhausting for Bendz that he died in Vicenza. Petzl and Westphal reached Rome in early November 1832, but Petzl stayed in the Eternal City for only a short time and joined a group of Bavarians, including the painter Peter von Hess , who embarked for Greece in Naples to go to on January 30, 1833 Nauplia to witness the arrival of the young King Otto of Greece . Petzl gave drawing lessons to the daughters of State Chancellor Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg and made a trip to Constantinople in 1834. In November 1834, Petzl returned to Munich, where the cheerful bachelor was at the center of the sociable hustle and bustle of Munich's artists.
Services
Petzl initially painted sensational pictures from the Alps in the taste of Biedermeier: poachers, chamois hunters, Tyrolean freedom heroes or peasant weddings. After returning from Greece he had great success with folkloric and colorful pictures from the Ottoman-influenced popular life.
Works
- An auction, 1832. 61 × 77 cm. Gemäldegalerie Thurn und Taxis, Regensburg
- Picking up the bride, Greek wedding feast, 1835. 66 × 84 cm. Munich City Museum
literature
- Ulrike Staudinger: "The" picture gallery "Maximilian Karls von Thorn und Taxis, Verlag Michael Lassleben Kallmütz, 1990.
- Hans Ottomeyer (Ed.): Biedermeier's luck and end. Hugendubel Munich 1987.
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Drawn diaries at the time of the Biedermeier period - Fritz Westphal and Joseph Petzl. Publishing house Boyens & Co., Heide 1993.
- Hyacinth Holland : Petzl, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 545-547.
- Commons : Joseph Petzl - collection of images, videos and audio files
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petzl, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1871 |
| Place of death | Munich |