Rudolf Konopa

Infantry attack 1878 .

Rudolf Konopa (born February 2, 1864 in Vienna ; † October 6, 1936 or 1938 there or in Scheibbs ) was an Austrian portrait , landscape , still life and genre painter .

Life

Rudolf Konopa was apprenticed to an industrial painter when he was fourteen. In 1881 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he initially studied for two years with Rudolf Karl Huber; then three years with Josef Mathias Trenkwald . Subsequently, Konopa received the Academy's master school award. He went on study trips to France , England and Italy . He was in Paris with Eugen Jettel in Fiesole with Arnold Bocklin in conjunction. From 1890 he was a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus, from 1900 to 1906 also of the Hagenbund .

As an established painter Rudolf Konopa was relatively soon after the outbreak of the First World War inclusion in the arts group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarters . From May 26, 1915 to November 1918, he worked as a war painter on the Balkans and Eastern Fronts. Several works from this period are now in the collections of the Army History Museum in Vienna. In 1938, the year he died, a commemorative exhibition was held in the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

Konopa painted portraits, genre pictures, landscapes, interiors and still lifes in a moderate impressionism, but remained more committed to the Viennese mood painting by Emil Jakob Schindler . Other works by Konopa are in the collections of the Belvedere Vienna and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Works (selection)

Austrian infantry attack during the Bosnian campaign in 1878 , around 1880, oil on canvas, approx. 50 × 70 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.

Poster: Draws 8th War Loan , 1918, lithograph, 125.6 × 94.5 Leopold Museum , Vienna.

literature

Krasa-Florian: Konopa Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 106 f. (Direct links on p. 106 , p. 107 ).
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century , Vienna 1973, Volume 2, p. 128.

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1973, Volume 2, p. 128.
↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 182.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Konopa - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Konopa, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1938
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1973, Volume 2, p. 128.

[2] Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 182.