Moritz Ledeli

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Emperor Franz Joseph I and Kaiser Wilhelm II in a carriage.

Moritz Ledeli (born September 7, 1856 in Brno , † around 1920 ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer of Czech descent.

Life

Moritz Ledeli received his first painting lessons from his father, the landscape painter Joseph Ledeli (born February 13, 1820 in Czechowice, † 1884 in Vienna). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and went on study trips to Germany , England and Holland .

As an illustrator , he worked for various magazines, including the “ Illustrirten Zeitung ” in Leipzig , “ Über Land und Meer ” in Berlin , as well as the “Frauenzeitung”, “ Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung ” and “The elegant world” in Vienna .

He painted portraits of celebrities, street scenes, genre pictures from Viennese folk life, hunting scenes and scenes from the life of elegant society. During the First World War , Ledeli depicted the hustle and bustle on the streets of Vienna and created battle pictures. Ledeli's works are now in state collections in Vienna, such as the Army History Museum , the Austrian Belvedere Gallery , the Albertina Graphic Collection and the Vienna Museum .

Works (selection)

  • Equestrian battle near Vysokov , Moravian State Museum Brno
  • Maneuver break - officers in an inn garden , around 1880, watercolor on paper, 26 × 37 cm, Heeregeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Defilation on the Schmelz in Vienna , gouache , 18.6 × 25.6 cm, Austrian Gallery Belvedere
  • Conductor of the city tram , 1915/16, watercolor, Wien Museum
  • Autumn meeting 1898 on the Trabrennplatze in the kk Prater , 1898, lithograph , 95 × 64 cm, Albertina Vienna

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg: The spiritual Vienna: lexicon of artists and writers, communications about Viennese architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers . C. Daberkow, Vienna 1892, p. 35 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Hermann Clemens Kosel : German-Austrian artists and writers lexicon. Volume 1: Biographies of Viennese Artists and Writers. Verlag der Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie, Vienna 1902.
  • Ledeli, Moritz . 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. 532 .
  • Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . tape 6 : Jacobs – Loyer. . Gründ, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0154-0 , pp. 525 .

Web links

Commons : Moritz Ledeli  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digital.belvedere.at , accessed on July 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ sammlungenonline.albertina.at , accessed on July 6, 2018.
  3. ^ Moritz Ledeli in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ^ Karl Hucke: Journal of the Moravian State Museum . tape 3 , 1st issue. Rohrer, Brünn 1903, p. 205 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Ledeli, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH January 1920
Place of death Vienna