Rudolf Quittner

Rudolf Quittner, 1906

Signatures

Rudolf Quittner (* 5. February 1872 in Opava , Austrian Silesia ; † 3. January 1910 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was an Austrian painter of Impressionism .

life and work

Quittner came from a family of manufacturers and first attended secondary school. He gained his first experience while studying at the Technological Trade Museum in Vienna . He then worked in his father's cloth factory in Groß Hoschütz, initially as a technical draftsman, then as an authorized signatory. However, he then turned to art studies and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Quittner had already occupied himself with painting during his technical studies, after all he learned first in Paris from Frits Thaulow and then attended the Académie Julian , where he studied landscape painting as a student of Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley . He traveled to almost all of Europe, the Orient and North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) for study purposes. In between he lived in Paris, where he was promoted by Claude Monet . From 1901 he lived in Vienna in winter while he spent the summers in Paris. From 1905 he was a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna.

Quittner's oeuvre, which particularly stands out for its virtuoso air and light effects, identifies him as a sensitive landscape and genre painter ( paysage intime ).

He succumbed to cancer in 1910, at the age of 37, after a "life-threatening operation" carried out in 1908.

Awards

Les lingères place du Tertre

Golden State Medal (1906)
Archduke Carl Ludwig Medal (for the oil painting Fallende Blätter ; 1908)
Franz Joseph Order
Officier de l'Academie

Exhibitions

Biennale in Venice (1907), Paris, Munich, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Berlin and several times in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. His estate exhibition was held there in 1910, as well as in the Georges Petit gallery in Paris in 1911.

Works (selection)

The lock

Freight station (Austrian Gallery, Vienna)
Under the railroad mound
Village fountain
Old alley in Olomouc
Flower market in Paris
Les lingères place du Tertre
Autumn landscape
Winter landscape
The Departure (Triptych)
Pont Neuf

literature

Ludwig Hevesi : Necrologist - Rudolf Quittner † . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . New episode 21, issue 14, January 28, 1910 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
(Painter Rudolf Quittner †.). In: Wiener Zeitung , Abendblatt, January 4, 1910, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
Painter Quittner died. In: Neue Schlesische Zeitung / Schlesisches Tagblatt. The only morning newspaper in Austrian Silesia , Abendblatt, January 5, 1910, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nsz
Adalbert Seligmann : artist house. In: Neue Freie Presse , November 18, 1910, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp(About the estate exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus; p. 2 )
On the plagiarism allegation from Bucas. An Austrian artist affair in Paris. In: Neue Freie Presse , November 13, 1911, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
An Austrian artist affair in Paris .. In: Neue Freie Presse , November 14, 1911, p. 10 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp(Continuation)
Quittner, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 530 .
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Volume 3. L-R. Self-published, Vienna 1974, p. K 102.
Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Gründ, Paris 1976, p. 561.
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Supplementary volume 2. L – Z. Self-published, Vienna 1979, p. K 69.
Quittner Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983,ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, p. 355.
Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 8: Poethen - Schlueter 2nd edition. Saur, Munich 2007, p. 130.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Quittner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Rudolf Quittner page 96 (PDF file; 3.99 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ Ludwig Hevesi : Art Chronicle . New series 19, issue 21. EA Seemann, Leipzig April 3, 1908, p. 364 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Ludwig Hevesi : Necrologist - Rudolf Quittner † . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . New episode 21, issue 14, January 28, 1910 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Quittner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian impressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Opava
DATE OF DEATH	January 3, 1910
Place of death	Neuilly-sur-Seine

[1] Ludwig Hevesi : Art Chronicle . New series 19, issue 21. EA Seemann, Leipzig April 3, 1908, p. 364 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Ludwig Hevesi : Necrologist - Rudolf Quittner † . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . New episode 21, issue 14, January 28, 1910 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).