Karl Mediz
Karl Mediz (born June 4, 1868 in Hernals , † January 11, 1945 in Dresden ) was an Austrian painter .
Life
Karl Mediz came from a merchant family. He grew up with his aunt in Znaim and did an apprenticeship in his uncle's general store in Retz . After Friedrich von Amerling had certified him as an artist, he studied medicine at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl and Fritz L'Allemand , in Munich with Paul Hermann Wagner and Alexander Demetrius Goltz and at the Julian private academy in Paris . In the artist colony in Dachau in 1888 he met his future wife Emilie Mediz-Pelikan , whom he married in 1891. Despite acquaintance with Theodor von Hörmann and praising judgments from Fritz von Uhde , Franz von Lenbach and Ludwig Hevesi , Mediz was not able to assert itself in Vienna and led a miserable existence with his wife. Financially supported by friends, he went on a study trip to Tolcsva in Hungary and Italy in 1892 . From 1894 onwards, Mediz often stayed in Dresden, where he and his wife finally moved.
From 1902 to 1912 Karl Mediz was a member of the Hagenbund . In addition to Vienna, he exhibited in Dresden in 1904, in Berlin in 1905 and 1906 and in Rome in 1911 . After the death of his wife in 1908, Mediz withdrew from the public. He died shortly before the devastating bomb attack on Dresden . The estate of the artist couple with 1180 numbers was handed over to the Republic of Austria by the Gerhart Hauptmann Museum in Radebeul after 1975 .
plant
Karl Mediz, who achieved the breakthrough on the art market with his wife around 1900 with symbolist pictures, mainly dealt with landscape and portrait painting . After the death of his wife, he increasingly created graphic works. Influences from Ferdinand Hodler and Giovanni Segantini can be seen.
He was forgotten for a long time because his estate was lost in the GDR. Its rediscovery began with a first major exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Museum in 1986.
- The purple state dress , (Vienna, Belvedere , Inv.No. 9725), 1891, oil on canvas, 160 × 181 cm
- The vulture in the rock , (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 9791), 1897, oil on canvas, 68.5 × 98.6 cm
- The stone carriers of Ragusa , (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.7243), 1898, oil on canvas, 171 × 261 cm
- Die Eismänner , (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.440 ), before 1902, oil on canvas, 213 × 255 cm
- Solitude , (Vienna, Belvedere, inv. No. 542), around 1902–1903, oil on canvas, 132 × 184 cm
- Landscape with rocks , (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 7244), 1905, oil on canvas, 40 × 50 cm
literature
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Mediz Karl. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , pp. 228-228 ( digitized version ).
- Therese Backhausen: Ménage à trois. Emilie Mediz-Pelikan and Karl Mediz , Phil.Diss. Salzburg 2008
- Agnes Husslein-Arco, Alexander Klee, Elisabeth Boser, Markus Fellinger & 2 more: Formalization of the landscape. Hölzel , Mediz, Moll a . a. , Catalog for the exhibition from May 28th to September 8th at the Belvedere in Vienna - Hirmer-Verlag 2013 (including about Emilie Mediz-Pelikan and Karl Mediz).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Medicine, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hernals |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden |