Leopold Munsch

Church by the lake (1878)

Leopold Munsch (born June 15, 1826 in Vienna , † June 17, 1888 in Pressburg ) was an Austrian landscape painter.

Born the son of a hotelier, Munsch worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1853 to 1867. In the 1840s Munsch was a private student of drawing with L. Lonnstein. From 1849 he showed his works at art exhibitions.

From 1863 to 1865 Munsch attended evening painting courses with Johann Nepomuk Geiger . He was influenced by the Viennese landscape painters Anton Hansch , Joseph Holzer and Remigius Adrianus Haanen .

Munsch mainly painted motifs from the mountain landscapes of South Tyrol and the Salzkammergut. On behalf of the Vienna Natural History Museum , he created two large-format murals in 1886.

Leopold Munsch left behind over 200 oil paintings and watercolors, over 2000 drawings and 30 sketchbooks, which were auctioned on December 10, 1888 at the auction house CJ Wawra.

literature

• Catalogs of the Austrian Art Association, 1866 ff.
• Catalogs of the annual exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, 1869 ff.
• Albert Ilg , foreword to the catalog of the estate auction at Wawra, Vienna December 10, 1888.
• Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century . Vol. 2/1, Dresden 1898, p. 116 ( digitized version ).
• Munsch, Leopold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
• Munsch, Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975,ISBN 3-7001-0128-7, p. 443 f. (Direct links on p. 443 , p. 444 ).

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