Ludwig Michalek

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Ludwig Michalek: self-portrait
etching (1899)
Ludwig Michalek: On the Journey (1886)
Ludwig Michalek in his studio
Photo by Max Fenichel (1919)

Ludwig Michalek (born April 13, 1859 in Timisoara , Austrian Empire , † September 24, 1942 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and engraver .

Life

Michalek was born the son of a railway engineer in Timisoara in the Banat , today's Timișoara in Romania. After attending secondary school in Brno, he came to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1873. Here he became a student of August Eisenmenger , Christian Griepenkerl and Carl Wurzinger . In 1876 further studies with the graphic artist Louis Jacoby followed . After completing his studies, he became an assistant at the general painting school of the Vienna Academy from 1884 to 1887, specializing in life drawing. Numerous study trips took him to Italy, France, England, Holland and Germany.

Michalek was one of the founders of the etching class at the Vienna Art School for Women and Girls , where he had held the main course for “Head and Nude” and further courses for “Daily Nude and Half Nude” and “Nature Studies for the Preparation of Applied Arts” since 1898. For the school year 1909/10 he was appointed by the Ministry of Labor as a professor at the Graphic Education and Research Institute . He held this position until 1919/20, but at the same time gave secondary courses in etching at the women's art school.

Michalek created numerous series of engravings and etchings, such as composers, poets, Austrian alpine railways, scenic and technical subjects. He also made reproductions according to old masters. In addition to these works, he created a large number of portraits, the majority of which he executed as pastel drawings.

In 1888 he received the Mention honorable (honorable mention) at the Paris Salon , in 1896 the Golden Medal at the Berlin International Art Exhibition and in 1936 the Silver Jubilee Medal of the Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna.

Ludwig Michalek married the pianist Lili Bailetti in 1883 and the couple had two daughters. Michalek died in Vienna on September 24, 1942. His artistic estate was put up for auction in December 1942 at the 480th auction of the Dorotheum in Vienna.

In 1943 a street in Vienna was named after him, Michalekgasse in Ottakring .

Works

Exhibitions

  • 1903 Kunst-Salon Artaria , Vienna
  • 1907 special exhibition Ludwig Michalek , Moravian Trade Museum Brno (later Archduke Rainer Museum for Art and Trade)
  • 1916 Collective exhibition of Prof. Ludwig Michalek , Kunstsalon Halm & Goldmann, Vienna
  • 1927/36 pictures, etchings, studies and sketches by the painter-etcher Professor Ludwig Michalek , ballroom of the Technical University, Vienna
  • 1939 Exhibition of the life's work of painter-etcher Prof. Ludwig Michalek , Künstlerhaus Vienna

student

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Michalek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Foundation and early years of the later "Women's Academy" . In: Olga Stieglitz ( inter alia): The sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854–1942): Between Ringstrasse, Künstlerhaus and women's art school. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-52203-5 , pp. 134-140. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. ^ Dorotheum 480th Art Auction. In: Volks-Zeitung , Vienna - vol. 88, issue 330. November 29, 1942, p. 7 , accessed on January 17, 2016 (digitized version: from ANNO ).
  3. ^ The kuk Oberststallmeister ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Heraldisch - Genealogische Gesellschaft ADLER, Vienna
  4. a b Some of the images are from akg-images
  5. Figure, see literature, Arpad Weixlgärtner, p. 524
  6. a b Figure see literature, AS Levetus
  7. a b c illustrations, see literature, Joseph Meder
  8. Ludwig Michalek: Portrait of the writer Karl M. Kuzmany. In: Die Graphischen Künste - Vol. 35. Society for Reproductive Art, Vienna, 1912, p. 48 , accessed on January 16, 2016 .
  9. ^ GH: Engraving - Moravian Trade Museum Brno. In: Österreichisch-Ungarische Buchdrucker-Zeitung - vol. 35 , March 14, 1907, pp. 130–131 , accessed on January 17, 2016 (digitized version: from ANNO).
  10. Belvedere.at archive , accessed on January 16, 2016