Rudolf Weber (painter, 1872)

Rudolf Weber (born February 26, 1872 in Vienna , † June 15, 1949 in Krems-Stein ) was an Austrian painter of classical modernism .

Artistic training and activity

Rudolf Weber was a student of the theater painter Anton Brioschi . Graduated from the State Trade School and studied at the Vienna Academy with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels . Initially as a landscape painter, Weber preferred motifs from the mountains and southern regions. He exhibited regularly at the Vienna Künstlerhaus . Around 1900 he moved to Spitz an der Donau . There he concentrated almost exclusively on the representation of the Wachau , in particular on the area around Spitz. In 1921 he moved to Stein an der Donau . He married the painter Anna Tischler (1881–1955). Joint study trips took him to South Tyrol on Lake Garda and the Adriatic Sea . From 1933 he worked in Krems an der Donau , where he was a member of the Wachau Artists Association .

In keeping with the realistic tradition, Weber mainly painted Austrian and Italian landscape motifs, but also portraits . In addition to watercolors , Weber's fine landscapes painted on paper using gouache, but also his pastos and oil paintings, some of which are executed using the spatula technique, are known .

Works

• Smyrna, market scene in an old Turkish city
• Villa d'Este near Rome
• Two children at the pond
• Summer mood - sheep on a wooden bridge
• Windischgarsten
• Autumn morning on the Pielach
• Potato harvest in Marchfeld
• Nepomuk statue in field and meadow landscape
• Motifs from Loiben, Wachau
• Willows by the stream
• Fisherman on the pier
• View of venice

literature

• Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1974, Volume 4, K 119
• Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1979, Supplement 2, K 149
• Wolfgang Krug: Wachau, pictures from the land of romanticism . Vienna 2003
• Franz Smola, Carl Aigner, Michael Grünwald (eds.): Beautiful Wachau. World cultural heritage in pictures from Biedermeier to modern times. Special exhibition from March 21 to October 31, 2011. Göttweig Abbey, Göttweig 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02164-8 , p. 170.

Web link

• Rudolf Weber on artnet