Matthias Rudolf Toma
Matthias Rudolf Toma (born February 10, 1792 in Vienna ; † June 12, 1869 there ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer of the Biedermeier period .
Life
Toma was the son of a cattle dealer and butcher. He studied at the Vienna Academy . He was one of the first to deal with the then new technology of lithography . From 1818 to 1830 he lived in Schaffhausen , where he had his own company as an art dealer and lithographer. After his return to Vienna he was close friends with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller .
Works
Toma was a genre , portrait , and above all a landscape painter during the Viennese Biedermeier period. He gained particular importance through his lithographic work, in which he used the new technology for depicting landscapes. In his later years, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's influence on him was decisive, as he created landscapes very similar to those of Waldmüller. He primarily sought the motifs for his pictures near Vienna and in the Danube floodplains.
- Rock section near Schottwien (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), 1831, oil on panel
- Snow mountain landscape with a coal pile ( St. Pölten , Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum , inv. No. A 45/79), 1839, oil on panel
- The Wasserhammerhaus near Hirschwang with a view of the Schneeberg (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian State Museum), 1844
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Toma, Matthias Rudolph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 46th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1882, p. 34 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Entry on Matthias Rudolf Toma in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toma, Matthias Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1869 |
| Place of death | Vienna |