Joseph Schuster (painter)

This article deals with the painter Joseph Schuster; on the painter Josef Schuster see Josef Schuster (painter) .

Joseph Schuster (born June 17, 1812 in Grätz , Austrian Silesia , † March 15, 1890 in Vienna ) was an Austrian flower painter .

Life

When he was a child, Joseph (Josef) Schuster moved with his family to Vienna , where he attended the first two classes of grammar school. His talent was discovered by chance by the academy professor Joseph Mößmer and promoted by the imperial field marshal Prince Liechtenstein, for whom Schuster's father worked as a confectioner. This enabled him to visit the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where Joseph Mößmer, Sebastian Wegmayer and Franz Xaver Petter were his teachers. After a spa stay in Bad Gastein , Schuster discovered the world of Alpine flowers as an artistic theme at the suggestion of Archduke Johann . He achieved great success with aristocratic and upper-class audiences, and his flower pictures were sold all over the world.

Joseph Schuster created numerous flower pictures and still lifes , which were very popular in his time.

In 1932 the Josef-Schuster-Gasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

• Works by Joseph Schuster (selection)
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  Still life with fruit and cockatoo , 1851, oil on canvas, 64 × 80 cm

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  Alpine flowers , oil on canvas, 30 × 38 cm

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  Still life with thistles, bluebells, rose hips and a nuthatch , oil on canvas, 75.5 × 96 cm

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  Large still life with fruits, flowers and parrot , oil on canvas, 76 × 103 cm

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  Still life with flowers , oil on canvas, 48.5 × 39 cm

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  Partridges , oil on canvas, 43.5 × 46.5 cm

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schuster, Joseph (flower painter) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, pp. 251–254 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Joseph Schuster  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files