Tom von Dreger

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Tom von Dreger
Franz Löwy : Portrait photo of Tom von Dreger, 1920
Tom von Dreger's grave site and relatives

Tom von Dreger (born October 2, 1868 in Brno , † July 30, 1948 in Vienna ; actually Thomas Richard von Dreger ) was an Austrian portrait , history and genre painter .

life and work

The son of the k & k Colonel Gottfried Eugen Edler von Dreger (1827 - December 8, 1907 in Baden near Vienna) and his wife Mary, nee Greaves, studied in the years 1884 to 1885 and from 1887 to 1888 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, his teachers there were August Eisenmenger , Siegmund L'Allemand and Heinrich von Angeli . He then went on study trips to Venice , where he took lessons from Eugene de Blaas and Ludwig Passini at the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia . He then studied for a year at the Munich Academy with Alexander von Liezen-Mayer , before he went to the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris for seven years , where he worked at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1893 to 1899 exhibited under the name TR de Dreger .

In 1892 he married Henriette Allesch. The marriage had four children.

  • Martha (* 1893), married Dr. Threadlike;
  • Marie (* 1894), married Munsch;
  • Gottfried (* 1897);
  • Ruth (1900–1980), concert singer and piano teacher.

After his stay in Paris he lived in his house in Nussschloss . In 1906 Tom von Dreger finally settled in Vienna, from where he went on numerous study trips to Transylvania , Germany , Italy , Sweden , Holland and the United States . In Vienna in 1916 he made two altarpieces for the Votive Church and became the preferred portraitist of the Austrian imperial family and Viennese society.

Over the years he has created countless portraits of statesmen and churchmen as well as leading personalities from business, science and the arts across Europe and overseas. Most of his pictures are now in private ownership, but also in state collections, such as the painting collection of the Vienna Museum of Military History or in public buildings such as the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture and the Historical Museum in Vienna.

The artist's grave, which has been dedicated to honor since 2014, is located in the Neustift cemetery .

Exhibitions

  • 1893–1999 Salons de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, Paris
  • 1897 Great German Art Exhibition, Berlin
  • 1903 38th annual exhibition, Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 1931 Exhibition of one hundred paintings from the years 1888–1931, organized by the Austrian Association of Artists at Kaiser Josef Stöckl, Augarten

Awards

  • 1895 Mention honorable, Paris

Works (selection)

Portraits

Religious paintings

Genre images

  • 1912 The paint driver
  • 1912 Romanian beggar
  • 1916 Adoration
  • 1919 The old violinist
  • 1940 Vienna's centenary laundress

Fonts

  • 1918 painting exhibition. Military casino . Vienna.
  • 1946 As I learned to see , Vienna, Holzhausens Nachf.

literature

  • Dreger, Tom von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 447-548 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Hermann A. Ludwig Degener: Who is who. Our contemporaries. Arani-Verlag, Berlin 1937.
  • Paul Emödi, Robert Teichl: Who is who. Lexicon of Austrian contemporaries. Vienna 1937.
  • Dreger, Tom von. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Austrian Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1, 3rd delivery, Böhlau, Vienna 1956, p. 199 ( biographien.ac.at ).
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Vienna 1973, Volume 1, p. K 70.
  • Heribert Sturm: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Oldenbourg, Munich 1974.
  • Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon from the beginning to the present. Volume 1, Vienna 1980.
  • Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2, Vienna 1993.
  • 19th century art. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 19th Century Vienna. Volume 1: A-E. Brandstätter, Vienna 1992, p. 205 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small Chronicle * Deaths. In:  Prager Tagblatt , December 10, 1907, p. 9 (online at ANNO ). "The day before yesterday, the retired colonel, Gottfried Eugen Edler von Dreger, died in Baden near Vienna at the age of eighty."Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ptb
  2. ↑ "The Brno-born, high-profile portrait painter Tom Dreger had been the owner of the corner cottage villa XVIII, Colloredogasse 25 / Cottagegasse 35, since 1909, which was demolished at the end of the 1970s and replaced by an apartment building." - Heidi Brunnbauer: Im Cottage von Währing / Döbling: Interesting houses - interesting people III. Edition Weinviertel, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902589-21-7 , p. 149.
  3. ^ Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Vienna 1973, Volume 1, p. K 70.
  4. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: The Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Vienna. Verlag Styria, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Dreger, Tom von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreger, Thomas Richard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1948
Place of death Vienna