Martin Ferdinand Quadal

Martin Ferdinand Quadal, self-portrait

Martin Ferdinand Quadal (born Chwadal or Chvatal, born October 28, 1736 in Niemtschitz near Kojetín , Moravia , † January 11, 1808 [according to other information: 1811] in St. Petersburg ) was an Austrian portrait and animal painter and copperplate engraver .

Live and act

The act hall of the Vienna Academy

Quadal studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He lived in Vienna for a few years , his subsequent life was marked by numerous study trips throughout Europe, which took him to Germany , England , France and Italy . From 1797–1804 he stayed in St. Petersburg , then spent two years in London and then again in St. Petersburg until his death. He was an honorary member of several art academies in Europe.

Quadal was a very popular portrait and animal painter in his time, who also created genre scenes . He was a classicist who took up suggestions from England. Most of his paintings are also in England and Russia. One of his most interesting pictures shows the members of the Vienna Academy studying nudes. It shows the most important artists of the late 18th century in Vienna, such as Franz Anton Maulbertsch , Friedrich Heinrich Füger , Johann Baptist Lampi or the sculptors Johann Martin Fischer and Franz Anton Fence . Quadal himself has also immortalized himself in the picture.

Works (excerpt)

Emperor Joseph II with Archduke Franz in the camp near Minkendorf , 1788 ( HGM )

Self-Portrait , ca.1785, oil on canvas, 37.1 × 27.3 cm ( online , RISD Museum, Providence, USA).
The nude hall of the Vienna Academy in the St. Anna building in 1787 (Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts, inv. No. 100), 1787, oil on canvas, 145 × 206.5 cm
Emperor Joseph II with Archduke Franz and the generals in the camp near Minkendorf (Münchendorf) in November 1786 ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ), 1788, oil on canvas, 212 × 325 cm.
Self-Portrait with a Dog , 1788, oil on canvas, Cincinnati Art Museum
Portrait of Anna Elisabeth van Tuyll van Seeroskerken ( Museum Schloss Amerongen ), 1793, oil on canvas, 134 × 23 cm
Portrait of Georg Heinrich Sieveking , 1796, oil on canvas
Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , around 1796, oil on canvas
Self-Portrait (St. Petersburg, Hermitage ), 1798
Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria, daughter of Tsar Paul I ( Paris , Musée du Louvre ), 1799, oil on canvas, 67 × 56 cm
Coronation of Tsar Paul I and Maria Feodorovna ( Saratov , State Art Museum ), 1799
Portrait of Prince Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov , 1807, oil on canvas, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
By candlelight , oil on canvas, Łazienki Palace , Warsaw

Hamburg portraits

Hermann Friedrich Goverts (January 29, 1741 - February 18, 1817)
Elisabeth Goverts (born Jahn, April 7, 1754 - April 5, 1802)
Cathedral Secretary Dr. Phil. Johann Philipp Beckmann (December 31, 1752 - June 28, 1814)
Anna Margaretha Beckmann, b. Schlueter (September 3, 1757 - October 15, 1825)

literature

Guadall. In: Association for Hamburg History (Hrsg.): Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon. Volume 1: The visual artists. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 96 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Quadal, Martin Ferdinand . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1872, p. 130 f. ( Digitized version ).
Alfred Lichtwark : Martin Ferdinand Quadal 1736–1808 . In: The portrait in Hamburg . 2nd volume. Druckerei A.-G., Hamburg 1898, foreign portrait painters 1750–1800, p. 21–27 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Franz Vallentin: Quadal, Martin Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 175.
Quadal (Chwátal), Martin Ferdinand . 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. 487 .
Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Catalog of the Old Masters . Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg 1918, p. 128–129 ( n153 - Internet Archive - selection of signatures).
Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie. Lexicon of persons. Volume 2. Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , p. 332 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Martin Ferdinand Quadal - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Quadal, Martin Ferdinand. In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists. doi: 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00147296 (subscription access)
↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790. Kiesel, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , pp. 34, 63.
^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: The Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Vienna. Styria, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 19.
^ Kunstverein Hamburg (ed.): Hamburg portraits . With accompanying text by Dr. Johannes Meyer and a foreword by Alfred Lichtwark . Otto Meissner Verlag, Hamburg 1913, p. 11-14 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Quadal, Martin Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH	Niemtschitz near Kojetín , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 1808 or January 11, 1811
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Quadal, Martin Ferdinand. In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists. doi: 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00147296 (subscription access)

[2] Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790. Kiesel, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , pp. 34, 63.

[3] Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: The Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Vienna. Styria, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 19.

[Hamburger_Bildnisse-4] Kunstverein Hamburg (ed.): Hamburg portraits . With accompanying text by Dr. Johannes Meyer and a foreword by Alfred Lichtwark . Otto Meissner Verlag, Hamburg 1913, p. 11-14 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).