Karl Eduard Onken

Scene from Valle di Cadore

Karl Eduard Onken (born March 12, 1846 in Jever , Oldenburg , † November 15, 1934 in Vienna ) was an Austrian landscape painter and etcher.

Born as the son of the glazier and painter Christian Eduard Onken and his wife Wilhelmine Katharina Mehrtens, Onken received his first painting lessons from his father. Thanks to the scholarship donated by the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Onken went to Berlin , where Christian Griepenkerl encouraged him to study in Vienna. Onken then studied from 1869 to 1879 with Peithner von Lichtenfels at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Onken received the Rosenbaum Prize in 1871, the Gundel Prize in 1873 and 1875 , and scholarships in 1874 and 1875. From 1874 he went on study trips to Hungary , Italy , Holland , Germany and Switzerland .

In 1880 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

literature

• Onken, Carl. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 184 ( archive.org ).
• Unken, Karl Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 21 .
• Unken, Karl Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 518 .
• Unken, Karl Eduard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978,ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, p. 231 f. (Direct links on p. 231 , p. 232 ).
• Jürgen Derschewsky: The painter Carl Onken in Vienna . In: Nordwest-Zeitung . July 15, 2006 ( nwzonline.de ).

Web links

Commons : Karl Eduard Onken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karl Eduard Onken in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Karl Eduard Onken artnet.com