Moriz Menzinger

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Moriz Menzinger (born July 15, 1832 in Karánsebes ; † February 12, 1914 in Überlingen ) was a Liechtenstein officer in the Austrian army , draftsman and watercolorist .

biography

family

Moriz Menzinger was the eldest son of the Liechtenstein provincial administrator Johann Michael Menzinger and Luise, geb. Schreiber, daughter of an Austrian military doctor . Three of his eight siblings lived to adulthood. Menzinger remained single.

His sister Anna was married to the Liechtenstein lawyer and politician Markus Kessler . In 1877 he became mayor of Sigmaringen , at that time the seat of the Prussian government for the Hohenzollern region .

Menzinger's grandfather, Franz Xaver Menzinger , born in Messkirch in 1740 , was Bailiff of Vaduz from 1788 to 1808 .

Through his grandmother, he was also related to the illustrator and costume designer at the court theater in Vienna, Philipp von Stubenrauch .

The grave of the Menzinger family, in which ten members of the family were buried between 1756 and 1937, stood in the old cemetery in Überlingen. It is no longer maintained, but the tombstone is along the southern wall of the cemetery. dig

school

After attending high school classes in Feldkirch and Hall , Menzinger was trained as an officer in the cadet school in Sigmaringen from 1848. There began a lifelong friendship with the later captain and regional technician Peter Rheinberger , who also came from Vaduz. In 1849 both were involved in combat as lieutenants during the Baden Revolution of 1848/1849. Early sketches from his school days in Hall suggest that he took drawing lessons there, but his teachers are not known.

Artistic creation

After Menzinger was given leave of absence as an officer in Liechtenstein federal contingents, he lived again in Vaduz from 1849 and made landscape sketches of Liechtenstein, which are now in the Municipal Museum in Überlingen.

Although he embarked on his military career at the age of 22, he always devoted himself to his artistic talents on the side. He made pencil drawings as well as watercolors of the landscapes wherever he was stationed, and at the age of almost 40 he took a break to study art in Vienna. He exhibited his watercolors at the Vienna annual exhibitions in 1869, 1871, 1872 and 1874.

After leaving the army in 1889, he settled in Überlingen on Lake Constance; he traveled to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, where his brother Ludwig built a house on Masescha near Triesenberg , and continued to paint landscapes.

Military career

Since the Liechtenstein army had no use for him, Menzinger joined the Austrian army on June 1, 1856. In 1868/1869 he became a teacher at a cadet school in Moravia . In 1870/1871 he was given leave of absence from the army for two years so that he could study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . In the years up to his retirement on October 1, 1889, he was employed as a drawing teacher at various military schools. In 1910, while still retired, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria made him a colonel .

Works

His estate was bequeathed to the Städtisches Museum in Überlingen by his youngest, unmarried sister, Marie Menzinger. Some of his watercolors and family portraits fell victim to a fire there in 1936, around 550 sheets have survived. In 1982 the Liechtenstein National Museum organized an anniversary exhibition of his works.

On the occasion of Menzinger's 150th birthday, the Principality of Liechtenstein issued a three-part series of stamps with images of his landscapes in 1982 : a 40 cents stamp with the motif of Neu Schellenberg (painted in 1861), a 50 cents stamp with a view of Vaduz (painted 1860) as well as a 100 centimes stamp with the church hill of Bendern and the Alpine Rhine in the foreground before it was straightened (painted 1868). The Austrian stamp artist Wolfgang Seidel (* 1946) was responsible for the engraving of the designs . Four paintings, presumably by Menzinger, served Adolf Tuma as the motif for a series of stamps issued by Liechtensteinische Post AG in 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Moriz Menzinger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Menzinger, Moriz (Moritz) - Historical Lexicon. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Menzinger Johann Michael, governor / provincial administrator in Vaduz at www.e-archiv.li
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Rudolf Rheinberger, Norbert W. Hasler (eds.): Moriz Menzinger (1832-1914). Liechtenstein - Vorarlberg - Überlingen . Südkurier, Konstanz 1986, ISBN 3-87799-082-7 , p. 25 .
  4. ↑ Kessler, Markus - Historical Lexicon. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Menzinger, Franz Xaver - Historical Lexicon. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Austrian biographical lexicon and biographical documentation: Stubenrauch, Philipp von. 2003, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  7. ^ Menzinger, Moriz (Moritz) - Historical Lexicon. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  8. ^ Rudolf Rheinberger: Moriz Menzinger. In: Yearbook of the HVFL. 1982, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  9. ^ Norbert W. Hasler, Felix Marxer: Moriz Menzinger, landscape watercolors 1832–1914; Anniversary exhibition for the 150th anniversary of the painter Moriz Menzinger's birthday . Ed .: Liechtenstein National Museum. Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz 1982, p. 41 .
  10. ↑ Issues - Castles in Liechtenstein on the website philatelie.li of the Liechtenstein Post, accessed on June 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Menzinger, Moriz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menzinger, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein painter and officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Karánsebes
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1914
Place of death Überlingen