Thomas Ender

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View of the Nossa Senhora da Gloria church in Rio de Janeiro
Thomas Ender
The Großglockner with the Pasterze

Thomas Ender (born November 3, 1793 in Vienna ; † September 28, 1875 there ) was an Austrian landscape painter and watercolorist .

Life

Thomas Ender was born as the son of the second-hand dealer Johann Ender and the twin brother of the history painter Johann Nepomuk Ender in what was then the Viennese suburb of Spittelberg No. 123 (today Faßziehergasse 6). Together with his brother he entered the Vienna Academy in 1806 , where he first studied history painting with Hubert Maurer , but then switched to Laurenz Janscha in his landscape class in 1810 . After Janscha's death in 1812, Joseph Mößmer became his teacher. As early as 1810, Ender had received the first prize from the Academy for Landscape Drawing.

After a few study trips, Thomas Ender was awarded the Great Painter's Prize for Landscape Painting, donated by the Emperor, in 1817 . Prince Clemens Metternich acquired the award-winning picture and promoted the artist from then on. He made it possible for him to take part in the Austrian Expedition to Brazil in 1817 , during which Ender made over 700 drawings and watercolors. After his return Metternich took him to Rome , where Ender was allowed to stay until 1823 as an imperial pensioner. From 1823 Ender worked on behalf of Metternich in the Salzkammergut and in 1824 became a member of the Vienna Academy. In 1826 he made a study trip to Paris . In 1828 he was appointed chamber painter by Archduke Johann and took part in his trip to the Orient and South Russia in 1837, which took him to Constantinople and Greece . Afterwards Ender became professor at the Vienna Academy from 1837 to 1851 and created several landscape series, which were often engraved in steel by English artists .

In 1845 Ender was appointed imperial council and retired in 1851. In 1853 he was awarded the Franz Joseph Order and in 1854 he was granted citizenship. In 1855 and 1857 Ender traveled again to Italy.

Thomas Ender had been married to Theresia Arvay since 1832 and was buried in Vienna's central cemetery on September 30, 1875 after his death . In 1922 the Endergasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after the Ender family of painters.

power

Thomas Ender combined his artistic skills in landscape painting with a scientific interest in topographical conditions. His pictures from Brazil are of particular importance. But also within Austria, Ender was interested in a topographically accurate mapping of the Alpine countries that were created on behalf of and in the interests of the imperial family . Ender was thus part of a current trend that endeavored to document the world and nature as comprehensively and precisely as possible, similar to how the painter Johann Knapp captured the plant treasures of the Austrian imperial family in Schönbrunn Palace with the greatest artistic mastery.

Works

The Arwaburg , watercolor by Thomas Ender from the 1860s.
  • Das Friedhofstor (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Inv.No. 6047), around 1820, oil on canvas, 34 × 44 cm
  • The Grossglockner with the Pasterze (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 6068), 1832, oil on canvas, 39 × 54 cm
  • The Vienna Gate in Krems (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich , Inv. No. 660), around 1836–37, watercolor, 16.8 × 22.7 cm
  • View of the Dürnstein castle ruins ( St. Pölten , Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 850), around 1840–45, watercolor, 20.7 × 27.7 cm
  • View of Melk Abbey (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, Inv.No. 4215), 1841, oil on canvas, 51.5 × 70 cm
  • The Weitenegg castle ruins with a view of Melk Abbey (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 7134), 1841, oil on panel, 25.7 × 30.5 cm
  • Miracle folder of the Danube (book based on his drawings), 1841
  • View from Mariahilferberg near Gutenstein towards Schneeberg (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 126/81), around 1845–50, oil on canvas, 85.5 × 119.4 cm
  • Picturesque Austria ( chromolithographic plates), 1850–56
  • View of Rio de Janeiro , oil on canvas, 126.5 × 189 cm, Picture Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , Inv. No. GG-171

literature

Web links

Commons : Thomas Ender  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Ender, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1875
Place of death Vienna