Ludwig Adam Kunz
Ludwig Adam Kunz (born June 3, 1857 in Vienna , † April 15, 1929 in Munich ) was an Austro-German painter .
Life
Adam Kunz first studied sculpture with Viktor Tilgner , then from 1876 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and finished his studies at the Munich Royal Academy of Arts with Franz von Lenbach and Friedrich August von Kaulbach in 1878 .
Initially he created different types of pictures ( landscape , genre , nudes , still life ), since his stay in Paris in 1885 with Mihály von Munkácsy , he devoted himself almost exclusively to still life in the style of old Dutch painting. From 1885 on, Kunz lived in the Asam-Schlössl in Thalkirchen , which he painted for the National Museum on behalf of the architect Gabriel von Seidl . In 1900 the picture was exhibited there. In 1896 he was appointed professor at the Munich Academy.
literature
- W. Zils: Kunz, Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 111-112 .
- Kunz, Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 139 .
- Catalog of paintings der kgl. Neue Pinakothek, 8th edition, undated, p. 102, 14th edition 1913, p. 83;
- Schöny: Kunz Ludwig Adam. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 356.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dorle Gribl, Thomas Hinz: Life in Thalkirchen . Ed .: Culture in the Munich South eV 1990, OCLC 165476665 , p. 47 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kunz, Ludwig Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1929 |
| Place of death | Munich |