Rudolf Swoboda (painter, 1819)
Rudolf Swoboda the Elder (born January 23, 1819 in Vienna , † April 24, 1859 ibid) was an Austrian landscape and animal painter.
Life
Rudolf Swoboda was born in Vienna in 1819 as the son of a wool merchant. His older brother was the painter Eduard Swoboda . He received his training as a student at the Vienna Art Academy with Joseph Mössmer at the landscape school and with the animal painter Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling the Elder. J. (1782-1868). Study trips to Northern Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland followed.
In 1839 he exhibited his works for the first time and then regularly at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Annahof . Other exhibition participations were in Pest and Prague . In 1842 he received the Great Gold Medal from the Academy of the Arts in Venice for his work “Forest section with splendid trees and a medieval hunting scene”. In 1848 he was one of the founders of the Austrian Art Association, along with the painters Franz Steinfeld and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller . In 1848 he and his brother Eduard became a member of the Kk Akademie der Künste and, in the mid-1850s, co-founder of the Vienna Albrecht Dürer Association. The majority of his paintings contain both fields of his work: the landscape and the representation of animals, whereby both the landscape and the animals served as accessories. His preferred animals were cattle and game.
Rudolf Swoboda married the actress Josefine Schlögl, the sister of the Viennese writer Friedrich Schlögl , in 1850 . His illnesses, which had existed since childhood, ultimately hindered his work. He died on April 24, 1859 a few months after his 40th birthday.
literature
- Swoboda, Rudolf. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 870 ( archive.org ).
- Swoboda, Rudolf (the elder) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 355 .
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Swoboda, Rudolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 274 f.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Svoboda, Rudolph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 41st part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1880, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notes. In: Carinthia. Journal for Fatherland Studies, Teaching and Entertainment , September 30, 1848, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swoboda, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Svoboda, Rudolf; Swoboda, Rudolf the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape and animal painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1859 |
| Place of death | Vienna |