Ludwig Passini

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Ludwig Passini, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1863

Ludwig Johann Passini (born July 9, 1832 in Vienna , † November 6, 1903 in Venice ) was an Austrian painter and engraver .

Life

Artist in the Cafe Greco in Rome (1856)
A bridge in Venice (1876)

Ludwig Passini was the son of the copper engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini . After his first artistic lessons from his father, he was able to attend the art academy in his hometown, where he mostly became a student of the painters Joseph von Führich and Leopold Kupelwieser . In 1850 Passini moved to Trieste with his parents . A little later he settled in Venice , where he in the studio of Carl Werner for watercolor painter was trained; later he accompanied Werner on his study trip through Italy.

Between 1853 and 1870 Passini lived in Rome , where he began to delve into genre painting , such as architectural pieces and interiors with figures . to make a name. On November 9, 1864, Ludwig Passini married Anna Warschauer (1841–1866), a daughter of the banker Robert Warschauer (1816–1884) and his wife Marie, born in Berlin . Mendelssohn (1822-1891), who in turn was a daughter of the banker Alexander Mendelssohn . The couple, who lived alternately in Berlin and Rome, had a daughter, Marie Clara Louise Passini (1865–1954), called Mira, who married the lawyer Paul Herrmann in 1888 . Anna Passini died just a year and a half after the wedding. Ludwig Passini settled in Venice for the rest of his life in 1873. Scenes from Venetian folk life can often be found in his later watercolors.

In 1878 Passini was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor , and the following year the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts honored him with the title of "Titular Professor". He was also a member of the art academies of Berlin and Venice.

He was one of the preferred selection of contemporary artists that the “Committee for the Procurement and Evaluation of Stollwerck Pictures” suggested to the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission them with drafts.

Passini's grave in Berlin-Kreuzberg

The Viennese art historian Ludwig Hevesi judged around the turn of the century: "The watercolorist Ludwig Passini, who mostly lives in Venice [...] quickly grew into the most important genre painter next to Pettenkofen ."

Ludwig Passini died in Venice in 1903 at the age of 71. His grave is on Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Works (selection)

  • The Basilica di San Marco in Venice (around 1860)

  • Italian market scene with Roman ruins (1863)

  • Anna Passini on the balcony of Palazzo Priuli in Venice (around 1866)

  • People on a Venetian Canal (1893)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Passini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
  2. ^ Ludwig Hevesi: Austrian art in the 19th century. Seemann, Leipzig 1903. Part 2: 1848–1900, p. 236.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 215.
  4. ^ Black and white illustration in: Ludwig Hevesi: Austrian Art in the 19th Century. Seemann, Leipzig 1903. Part 2: 1848–1900, p. 237.
  5. ↑ Figure
personal data
SURNAME Passini, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Passini, Ludwig Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1903
Place of death Venice