Leopold Kupelwieser

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Professor Leopold Kupelwieser (Oesterreichische Illustrirte Zeitung, 1851)
Altarpiece by Leopold Kupelwieser in a church in Pécs ( Hungary )
Altar wall fresco by Leopold Kupelwieser in the Nepomuk Church in Vienna
Portrait of Emperor Franz I of Austria in coronation regalia (around 1830, HGM ).
Leopold Kupelwieser's tomb in the Grinzing cemetery

Leopold Kupelwieser (born October 17, 1796 in Markt Piesting , † November 17, 1862 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Leopold Kupelwieser was the son of Johann Baptist Georg Kilian Kupelwieser (1760–1813), co-owner of a sheet metal crockery factory founded in Markt Piesting in Lower Austria in 1775, and his wife Maria Josepha Judith, born Gspan (1767–1831). After Franz Anton von Zauner recognized his talent early on , Leopold Kupelwieser began taking lessons at the Vienna Academy from 1809 at the age of 12 .

Initially a fan of Viennese classicism , he was influenced by the Nazarenes around Friedrich Overbeck during a stay in Rome in 1824 . After the death of the Russian nobleman Alexander Beresin, on whose behalf he had made illustrations , he returned to Vienna and established himself as a portrait and history painter . But Kupelwieser was also engaged in practical painting, for example he was known for his shop signs. He was a member of Franz Schubert's circle of friends , the “Schubertians”, who often stayed at Atzenbrugg Castle in the summer . He created several portraits of this circle of friends , including Franz Schubert, Franz Joseph Vinzenz von Bruchmann, Moritz von Schwind and Franz von Schober . On September 17, 1826, he married Maria Johanna Evangelista Augustina Stephania Theodora Lutz, who was born on December 26, 1803. On this occasion, Schubert dedicated the "Kupelwieser Waltz" to him, which "was preserved in the Kuppelwieser family [sic!] By tradition" until it was recorded by Richard Strauss as a guest in the Mautner-Markhof house. Leopold had numerous children, eight of whom reached adulthood. In 1831 he was a proofreader and from 1836 professor of history painting at the Vienna Academy and increasingly occupied himself with religious motifs and fresco painting . There was one Adam Brenner to his students.

In 1841 the son Carl Kupelwieser , the uncle of the later philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein , and in 1842 the son Paul Kupelwieser , a later industrialist, was born (three other sons had similar positions as Paul). In 1850, Kupelwieser was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order . From 1850 to 1852 he was a professor at the preparatory school and from 1852 to 1862 head of a master school for painting. From 1840 Leopold Kupelwieser lived for a while in the Schönbornpalais on Rotenturmstrasse . He died of exhaustion in house Stadt 646 ("Zur Großen Gans", today Rabensteig 2) and was buried on November 19, 1862 in the general Währinger cemetery. On March 30, 1883, his remains were exhumed and reburied in an honorary grave in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 6, row 5, number 2) in Vienna.

Kupelwieser's older brother, the theater poet Josef Kupelwieser , also belonged to the circle around Franz Schubert; In 1823 he composed the libretto for Fierrabras for Schubert . Leopold Kupelwieser's most famous descendants include the painter Ida Kupelwieser (1870–1927), a pupil of Hugo Charlemont who was married to Maximilian Lenz (1860–1948), and Marie Anna Mautner-Markhof (“Pussi”, 1900–1990), the sculptor Hans Kupelwieser and Virgil Widrich .

power

Special stamp of the Federal Republic of Germany for 1997 for the 200th birthday of Franz Schubert . Design: Peter Nitzsche based on the watercolor by Kupelwieser The Fall of Man (detail) - Charade of the Schubertians in Atzenbrugg
The Fall of Man , 1821, watercolor , Wien Museum , Vienna

Leopold Kupelwieser is still known today for the pictures he made of Franz Schubert and his circle of friends. His main works are religious altarpieces and frescoes, which he created for churches in Vienna and throughout the region of the monarchy . From the 1840s, monumental painting took on an increasingly important position in his work. Kupelwieser belonged to the Nazarenes school and, together with Joseph von Führich, is the main representative of religious romantic painting in Vienna.

Honors

In 1894, the Kupelwiesergasse in Vienna was named after the artist. On his 200th birthday in 1996, the Austrian Post issued a special postage stamp in his honor. Leopold Kupelwieser is one of the characters (a bass part) in the Singspiel Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916) by Heinrich Berté based on the novel Schwammerl by Rudolf Hans Bartsch .

Works (excerpt)

  • Emperor Franz II (I) in coronation regalia (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ), oil on canvas, 65.5 × 46.5 cm
  • Archduke Franz Carl ( Linz , Upper Austrian State Museum )
  • The Schubert singer Johann Michael Vogl (Linz, Upper Austrian State Museum)
  • Portrait of Frau Adler ( St. Pölten , Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum , inv. No. 563), 1817, oil on canvas, 68.6 × 56 cm
  • Portrait of the composer Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
  • Country party of the Schubertians from Atzenbrugg to Aumühl ( Vienna Museum ), 1820, watercolor
  • The Three Kings (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Inv. No. 3768), 1825, oil on panel
  • Lady in a Blue Dress (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1827, oil on canvas, 69 × 55 cm
  • Josef Mayer Freiherr von und zu Gravenegg (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1827, oil on canvas, 79 × 63 cm
  • Saint Leopold ( Klosterneuburg , Stiftsmuseum , inv.no. OG 200), around 1832, watercolor miniature, 1.3 × 0.8 cm
  • Crucifixion of Christ (Vienna, Lichtental parish church ), 1832, side altarpiece
  • St. Joseph (Vienna, Confraternity Chapel), 1835
  • Maria Immaculata (Vienna, Peterskirche ), 1836
  • Emperor Franz I of Austria ( Franzensburg , Laxenburg ), 1834, oil on canvas
  • Mary as Queen of the Rosary (Vienna, Dominican Church ), 1839, high altar painting
  • Herz Jesu (Vienna, Peterskirche), 1840
  • Saint Joseph with the Infant Jesus ( Chicago , The Art Institute , Inv. 1982.1670), 1840, oil on copper
  • Holy Family (Vienna, Lichtental parish church), 1841, side altarpiece
  • Saint Vitus ( Hausbrunn , parish church), 1841, high altar picture
  • Family portrait of Franz Xaver Lössl , 1841
  • Mary with Child ( Copenhagen , St. Ansgar Cathedral ), 1844, side altar painting, oil on canvas, 172 × 95 cm
  • Glory of St. Johannes Nepomuk (Vienna, Johannes Nepomuk Church ), 1841–44, fresco
  • St. Rupert ( Miesenbach , parish church St. Rupert), 1847, former high altar painting
  • Assumption of Mary ( Fünfkirchen , Former Abbey Church of the Sisters of Our Lady), 1851, oil on canvas
  • Saint Stephan ( Retz , parish church St. Stephan), 1852, high altar picture
  • Frescoes Engelsturz the left aisle, Judgment in the right aisle, cycle 8 beatitudes in Kuppeloktogon and transverse ship and frescos on the end faces of the cross ship (Vienna, Altlerchenfelder Parish ), 1855-58
  • Holy Family with Stephanus and Leopold (Vienna, Cathedral and Diocesan Museum ), 1856
  • Holy Family, wandering (Vienna, Cathedral and Diocesan Museum), 1859
  • Establishment of the Rosary by Pope Gregory XIII. (Vienna, Augustinian Church ), high altar picture
  • Maria Immaculata ( Esztergom , Keresztény Múzeum, inv.no.59.935), oil on canvas, 87 × 56 cm
  • Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Esztergom, Keresztény Múzeum, inv.no.4414), watercolor on paper, 9 × 4.4 cm

literature

Web links

Commons : Leopold Kupelwieser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Wald: The beginnings of the industry in the Vienna basin and its geographical basis . Vienna, Univ., Diss., 1954, Permalink Austrian Library Association , p. 221.
  2. ^ Peter Clive: Schubert and his world - a biographical dictionary . Clarendon Press, Oxford (et al.) 1997, ISBN 0-19-816582-X , p. 106.
  3. ↑ Kupelwieser Waltz in the Universal Edition (sample pages, p. 2)
  4. ^ Parish archives St. Stephan, death book 45, fol. 198.
  5. ↑ WStLA, Währinger Kommunalfriedhof B2- Own graves, II-G-3-old.
  6. ↑ s. on this Elmar Worgull : Schubert's unknown neighbor in Kupelwieser's watercolor The Fall of Man (2001 ) in the bibliography.
  7. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 34.
  8. ^ Family portrait in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Kupelwieser, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Piesting market
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1862
Place of death Vienna