Robert Scheffer
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Robert Scheffer (born May 6, 1859 in Vienna ; † October 27, 1934 there ) was an Austrian landscape , genre and portrait painter , founder of the Scheffer painting school and art collector .
Life
Scheffer studied from 1879 to 1881 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl , Carl Wurzinger and Leopold Carl Müller and continued his studies from 1886 at the master school at the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe with Ferdinand Keller .
From 1905 to 1918 Scheffer exhibited his works in the Vienna Künstlerhaus . His most popular subject was the subject of young women in Biedermeier interiors , which comes in numerous variations.
Scheffer was a board member and honorary member of the Albrecht Dürer Association, was awarded the Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria (1929) and the Silver Medal of the Albrecht Dürer Association (1930).
Scheffer founded a painting school in 1891 with August Schubert in drawing and Carl Haunold in painting lessons. The students included John Quincy Adams , Robin Christian Andersen , Franz Eisner , Anton Faistauer , Maria Grengg , Josef Kalous, Anton Peschka , Franz Roubal , Gustav Schutt and Fritz Zerritsch . Scheffer's daughter Gret Kalous continued the Scheffer painting school until 1949 as the "School for Artistic Fashion Drawing" at the original location.
Works (selection)
- Farmstead in Altenberg, Upper Styria and coal burners in the exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus 1897
- Motif from Mattsee in the exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus 1905
- Stop in front of the inn and ladies in the forest in the 1913 auction catalog.
- Mountainous landscape in the 1926 auction catalog
literature
- Scheffer, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 6 .
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 9, Gründ, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0149-4 , p. 355.
- Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Wiesbaden 1977.
- General artist lexicon . Bio-bibliographical index A – Z. Volume 8: Pikalov – Schintzel. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23918-1 , p. 752.
Web links
- Robert Scheffer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Scheffer painting school in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog of the exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna, December 5, 1897 . Publishing house of the cooperative of visual artists Vienna, Vienna 1897, p. 42 and 45 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ^ Catalog of the 32nd annual exhibition in Vienna . Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna, Vienna 1905, p. 63 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Robert Scheffer . In: Paintings by older and modern masters . JM Heberle, Cologne October 1913, p. 15 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Robert Scheffer . In: Auction of paintings by modern and old masters, watercolors, hand drawings, miniatures, porcelain, pewter and other art objects from the estates of various Viennese collectors and other private property . CJ Wawra, Vienna 1926, p. 18 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheffer, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1934 |
| Place of death | Vienna |