Theodor Alconiere

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Friedrich von Amerling : Portrait Theodor Alconiere (1836)
A player composed of all known games , hand-colored copper engraving, engraved by Andreas Geiger , around 1840
Széchenyi at the Iron Gate (1831)

Theodor Alconiere , in Hungarian Tivadar , (born as Hermann Cohn in 1798 in Mattersburg , Austrian Empire ; died June 10, 1865 in Vienna ) was an Austro-Hungarian painter .

Life

Hermann Cohn was born in Nagymarton in the Hungarian part of the Empire into a Jewish family. From 1812 to 1820 he studied at the Art Academy in Vienna and in 1815 was with the portrait painter Johann Baptist Lampi in Venice . He converted to Catholicism in 1830 and took the name Alconiere, a corruption of his name. He stayed in Italy for thirteen years and was in contact with the Nazarenes in Rome . He was court painter to the Prince of Lucca and the Duchess of Parma . In the 1840s and 1850s he painted in the Hungarian cities of Székesfehérvár , Pápa and Pest . He returned to Vienna in the 1860s. Alconiere's pictures were regularly shown at the Vienna art exhibitions between 1832 and 1845. He painted portraits, equestrian portraits, but also genre pictures and caricatures. A specialty were “terms” in which images associated with the term are combined into human figures. A “harp player” is depicted, whose body is composed of musical instruments, while “cholera” is represented in a female figure composed of the remedies prescribed against the disease.

Alconiere died impoverished as a church servant in the hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Vienna.

Illustrations

literature

Web links

Commons : Tivadar Alconiere  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to AKL, also 1797.
  2. ↑ Salomon Wininger: Great Jewish National Biography. 1927, col. 400.
personal data
SURNAME Alconiere, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alconiere, Theodor Heinrich; Alconiere, Tivadar; Hermann Cohn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Mattersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1865
Place of death Vienna