Karl Haas (landscape painter)

Karl Haas (born November 2, 1831 in St. Pölten , † September 2, 1895 in Hermagor ) was an Austrian landscape painter and panoramic draftsman .

Differentiation from the artist personality of the same name

The lack of knowledge about the existence of two creative artists with the same name as well as the coincidental parallelism of their lives and their work led early on to the merging of Karl Haas, the landscape painter and panoramic draftsman, with Carl Haas (born October 13, 1825 in Vienna; † January 25, 1880 in Vienna), the preservationist, regional archaeologist and metal goods manufacturer, to an artist personality.

Life

Karl Haas' humble and unadjusted wandering life of a landscape painter and panorama draftsman contrasts with that of the more successful monument conservator and metal goods manufacturer Carl Haas. He came from a rather modest background and had to constantly struggle for a financial livelihood. The most important tangible stages in the artist's life in the 1860s and 1870s were the Ennstal , where Haas lived in Irdning . After several years in Vienna, where he student of for Archduke Johann working chamber painter Thomas Ender was and Graz he settled in 1880 be until his death in Hermagor down. He remained unmarried, therefore without verifiable descendants and can probably be addressed as a freedom-loving person who did not want to submit to conventional constraints. His resignation from the Roman Catholic Church, which he publicly announced in 1870, is indicative of this .

Works

During his lifetime, Karl Haas gained a certain popularity among alpine experts , especially as a panorama draftsman of detailed mountain views . These were later reproduced by printmaking and earned him the name "Steirischer Pernhart ". Even if he is occasionally called a portrait painter , the focus of his artistic work was clearly on landscape painting.

According to the current state of research, in addition to the panoramas, further illustrations for publications and the entire group of so-called Styrian local views can be ascribed to him. Currently (as of 2019), 139 works by Karl Haas between 1864 and 1880 are known. These, apart from a few privately owned works, were acquired at an early stage by the Styrian State Archives and incorporated into its general collection of local images. The content of the works, mostly executed as washed , monochrome ink drawings , are smaller towns, settlements, early industrial plants and individual buildings. For some remote areas, these views represent the earliest pictorial document ever.

literature

• † Karl Haas . In: Austrian Tourist Newspaper 15, No. 19, October 1, 1895, p. 229 ( digitized version ).
• Walter Brunner : Upper Styrian picture sheet by Carl Haas (1835–1880). Verlag Lerchhaus, Eibiswald 1997, ISBN 3-901463-05-4 . (Note: Still with the incorrect level of knowledge of the merger of two artists of the same name.)
• Monika Küttner: Carl Haas and Karl Haas? Latest findings on Haas and his years as a painter in Irdning. In: The Grimming. Monolith in the Ennstal. Schall-Verlag, Alland 2011, ISBN 978-3-900533-69-4 , p. 156ff.
• Guido Müller: Up high and far beyond. Summit panoramas of the central eastern Alps from the 19th century and their production. In: Axel Borsdorf (Hrsg.): Research in the mountains. Christoph Stadel on his 75th birthday. (= IGF research reports. Vol. 5). Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7001-7461-5 , pp. 32–52, especially pp. 42–44 ( digitized version ).
• Monika Küttner: Carl Haas and Karl Haas. “Fusion” and “unbundling” of two artist personalities of the same name (= publications of the Styrian Provincial Archives, Vol. 41 / Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, special volume 26). Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-901938-27-6 .