Robert Schiff (painter, 1869)
Robert Schiff (born January 18, 1869 in Vienna ; † June 1, 1935 there ) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter .
Schiff studied painting from 1886 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .
Schiff was entered in the register of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on October 20, 1890 , but could not start the course for health reasons and was canceled. In 1897 he married the actress Gina Eibenschütz in Vienna (born October 17, 1869 in Budapest, † 1956 in Argentina). She was the daughter of the cantor at the Budapest city temple David Eibenschütz.
Schiff was a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus and from 1902 to 1905 of the Hagenbund .
Schiff was considered a painter of the Viennese fashionable society, who among other things had made a portrait of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef . Many of his works appeared in the form of postcards.
His works were exhibited in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery from May 7th to October 26th, 1993 as part of the Hagenbund exhibition "Die verlorene Moderne". (The artist association Hagen 1900–1938) exhibited.
His son Friedrich Schiff also became a painter and known for his colorful caricatures of everyday life in Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s.
literature
- Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century : Volume 4: p. 17
- Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century : Supplement 2: p. 97
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Fastl, Monika Kornberger: Eibenschütz, Familie , in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, accessed on January 5, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ship, robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1935 |
| Place of death | Vienna |