Leopold Pollak

Portrait of Leopold Pollack, drawn by Franz Xaver Winterhalter , Rome 1834

Leopold Pollak , also Pollack (born November 8, 1806 in Lodenitz in Bohemia, † October 16, 1880 in Rome ) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter.

Life

The painter August Riedel

Pollak came from a Jewish merchant family. His parents sent him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague to study painting , where he was tutored by Joseph Bergler . He then worked at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Johann Peter Krafft and Anton Petter and, from 1831, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Pollak moved his center of life to Rome in 1832 or 1833. Evidently, from 1855 to 1860 he had a studio on the first floor at 33 Via Margutta , a small alley where many artists were housed. His painting style was influenced by August Riedel , whom Pollak portrayed in Rome in 1851. The album of the German Art Association in Rome contains a number of portrait drawings by Pollak's hand. A portrait that he made of Wilhelm Leibl in 1869 was auctioned in Lucerne by Galerie Fischer in 1945.

His son August Pollak (* 1838) was also a genre and portrait painter.

literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . tape 11 : Passe, Simon de - Powle, G . Fleischmann, Munich 1841, p. 461–462 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Pollak, Leopold . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 75–78 ( digitized version ).
Franz Vallentin (art historian): Pollack, Leopold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 98.
Pollak, Leopold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 216 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Almanacco romano ossia, raccolta dei primari dignitari e funzionari della citta 'di Roma 1855 . Rome, S. 289 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).
^ Almanacco romano ossia, raccolta dei primari dignitari e funzionari della citta 'di Roma 1858–1860 . Rome 1858, p. 299 ( books.google.de ).
↑ F. Salverio Bonfigli: Guide to the studios in Rome with much supplementary information . Tipographia Legale, Rome 1860, p. 16 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Mobilier and Pictures, from East and West Scheizer private collections ... Galerie Fischer, Lucerne 1945, p. 100 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - From the estate of the painter Winterhalter).
^ Pollak, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 215 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pollak, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pollack, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lodenitz in Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1880
Place of death	Rome

[1] Almanacco romano ossia, raccolta dei primari dignitari e funzionari della citta 'di Roma 1855 . Rome, S. 289 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).

[2] Almanacco romano ossia, raccolta dei primari dignitari e funzionari della citta 'di Roma 1858–1860 . Rome 1858, p. 299 ( books.google.de ).

[3] F. Salverio Bonfigli: Guide to the studios in Rome with much supplementary information . Tipographia Legale, Rome 1860, p. 16 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] Mobilier and Pictures, from East and West Scheizer private collections ... Galerie Fischer, Lucerne 1945, p. 100 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - From the estate of the painter Winterhalter).

[5] Pollak, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 215 .