Victor von Eckhardt

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Victor Eckhardt von Eckhardsburg (born August 28, 1864 in Rastatt ; † July 13, 1946 in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna) was a late impressionist painter and graphic artist of animals, landscapes and militaria as Victor von Eckhardt. He was strongly influenced by the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel .

Victor von Eckhardt (1915)

family

His parents were Gustav Eckhardt von Eckhardsburg and Mathilde, geb. Bad luck. The family lived on Prague's Malteserplatz in the Turba Palace, which is now the seat of the Japanese Embassy. The father had served as the Imperial and Royal Governor in Florence, Ferrara, Bologna and Piacenza around 1850. From 1862 to 1866 he served as a colonel and commander of the Austrian troops in the federal fortress of Rastatt (on the Rhine).

Victor had three brothers:

  • Josef (1854–1894), captain, born in Piacenza, adjutant to Crown Prince Rudolf
  • Carolus (1855–1936), born in Prague, senior doctor in reserve, doctor in Smichov (Prague)
  • Gustav (1861–1937), major general

Victor's great-grandfather, Philipp Eckhardt (1737-1817) came from Pressburg and was raised to the nobility by Emperor Franz in 1814. Since then, the family name has been "Eckhardt von Eckhardsburg".

His good schooling and life in the linguistically diverse monarchy enabled Victor Eckhardt von Eckhardsburg to have excellent knowledge of German, Czech, French, English and Italian, as well as the ability to communicate in Serbo-Croatian. The correspondence with his future father-in-law, a French professor, was in the finest French.

On September 9, 1888, at the age of 24, he once got into a difficult situation from which his maternal uncle Karl Ritter von Peche, chief of genius, was able to free him. For reasons unknown today, he was arrested in Premỷsl (Poland). The drawing shows the bridge over the San and the view of the Zamek (Castle) Premỷsl with the note “Enlightenment and liberation by Uncle Pips” with the exact date.

Life

Victor von Eckhardt lived in Prague until 1903, from 1904 in Perchtoldsdorf, since 1921 in the “Haus zur Corpus Christi cave”, built in 1564, Elisabethstraße 18. He was married to Johanna, geb. Wawra (1894–1975), daughter of Ferdinand Wenzel Wawra, French professor at the girls' school in Wr. Neustadt, and Johanna Gottlieb from Graz.

Victor had a daughter, Thorvi Elisabeth, (born 1921 in Vienna; died 1979), university professor at the Institute for Eastern European History and Southeast Research at the University of Vienna (studied in Vienna, Munich and Sofia: art history, Slavic studies).

In Perchtoldsdorf Victor and his wife u. a. friends with the Boeckl family, then with the painter Hans Larwin (1873–1938) and his wife Ina. Also with the Ferdinand Schirnböck family , the engraver (1859–1930). All of them live in Elisabethstraße, as well as with the ceramist Hugo Franz Kirsch in Vienna-Mauer.

Eckhardt died in 1946 at the age of 81 in Perchtoldsdorf, which belonged to Greater Vienna from 1938 to 1954 .

Career as an artist

education

Eckhardt studied at the Prague Art Academy from 1880 to 1881 , from 1881 to 1884 at the Vienna Academy with Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger , from 1885 to 1890 at the Munich Academy with Nikolaus Gysis and Sándor Wagner (Alexander Wagner) and from 1894 to 1896 at the academy in Karlsruhe and Woerth am Rhein with Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth and Heinrich von Zügel .

During the First World War , Eckhardt was a war painter in the art group in the Imperial and Royal War Press Headquarters and in the cavalry corps on the Volhyn Front (in the north-west of Ukraine). He often accompanied his brother Gustav (who later became major general) to various sections of the front to draw. So in Ukraine and Bosnia. Only a few works from his time as a war painter have survived, for example a portrait of Chief of Staff Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf from 1916 in the Vienna Army History Museum (charcoal drawing on cardboard).

The difficult financial situation of the visual artists in the 1920s and 30s meant that he and many of his friends and colleagues had to accept commissioned works. In the 1930s, for example, he was an illustrator for the “Austrian Soldiers' Journal”.

His great love was the horses, which he even depicted in portraits. He was particularly interested in the breed of Kladruber horses, which are characterized by their "Ramsnase". Several stays in Kladrub on the Elbe, especially in the Slatiňany stud, are evidenced by drawings, paintings and sketches. But also in Piber in Styria he worked as a draftsman for the Lipizzaner horses .

His innumerable sketchbooks, which are unfortunately not even remotely arranged in chronological order, give a clear picture of the era of the Austrian monarchy in its last decades. Even after his training in Karlsruhe or Woerth, Victor von Eckhardt stayed in letter contact with his revered teacher for a long time.

Heinrich von Zügel cultivated "plein air" painting, and studio work was only allowed in persistent bad weather.

Here from a letter to his brother Gustav (1895): “I still want to tell you about my experience at the last model meeting on May 1st. Schramm et al. Early on I took our goat, which runs after me like a dog, into the forest - I wanted to start a spring picture with goats. When Schramm left me at 12 o'clock, I was still painting alone - the goat was grazing at the edge of the pine forest, under willow bushes. After about a quarter of an hour the poor animal began to scream - soon afterwards two coal-black goats were born, which their mother licked and jumped about - it was an unusual situation! I had to stay with the new goat family until evening - all the more so when a fox crept around us, attracted by the grumbling. Now the little ones are well accommodated in the horse stables at the Rössel. Congratulations. I am enclosing the card from our colleague Freytag because of the curiosity: -am in too much of a hurry to write about it ... 2000 greetings for today, " " Your faithful brother Victor "

On this congratulation card there is a lovely caricature showing Victor with a nurse's cap and baby bottles at the goat's crib. Another caricature, which one could call “chief visit in the goat barn”, shows the painter as a stable boy with two brushes in his hands in front of the neatly brushed and almost horse-sized goat. He stands at attention in front of the stern looking "chief doctor".

Memberships

  • German-Bohemian Artists Association in Prague
  • Artists Association of Karlsruhe
  • Hagenbund 1902–1922 (1900 as a guest at the Wiener Künstlerhaus)
  • Wiener Künstlerhaus since 1923

Selection of honors and prizes

  • 1891 Honorary Diploma from the International Art Exhibition in Zagreb
  • 1900 Eger honorary award medal
  • 1935 N.Ö. State Art Prize
  • 1937 Austrian State award medal
  • 1944 Golden Laurel of the Vienna Künstlerhaus

Works

Works can be found in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery; Albertina; Austrian Army History Museum; Vienna Museum; N.Ö. State Museum; Rudolphinum Prague; Museum moderni umeni, Prague; Slatiňany Castle , Hippological Museum, Czech Republic; The Hague Hague's Gemeente Museum; Perchtoldsdorf, collection of the market community

drawings

  • Girl in the window, Karlsruhe 1896

  • The artist's mother, Prague 1899

  • Camp on Stochod, Volhynia

Watercolors

  • Dalmatia

  • Fishing boat at Volosca

Oil paintings

  • Kladruberhengst Generale Alba XIII, 1901

  • Farmer's wife, Woerth am Rhein, 1896

  • Cow by the water

  • Winter landscape in Perchtoldsdorf

  • Rest by the haystacks

  • Kladruber mare with foal

  • Young goat

  • Mold under the saddle

Etchings

  • Guardian of the mosque, 1914 (signed)

Exhibitions

During his lifetime

Selection:

  • III.Internat. Exhibition by the Vienna Künstlerhaus 1894
  • Anniversary exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1898
  • 61st annual exhibition of the Art Association for Bohemia in Prague 1900
  • 62nd annual exhibition of the Art Association for Bohemia in Prague 1901
  • Opening exhibition of the Hagenbund in 1902 and others within the framework of the Hagenbund
  • Boarding school Art exhibition in Venice 1907
  • Künstlerhaus Rudolfinum anniversary exhibition 1908
  • Art auction at Palais Auersperg 1917
  • 50th exhibition of the Vienna Secession with the Hagenbund collection in 1918
  • 46th annual exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus 1925
  • Exposición de Arte Austriaca Buenos Aires 1927
  • 51st annual exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus 1930
  • Anniversary exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus 1942

Posthumously

  • 1987 Personale in Perchtoldsdorf
  • 1989 Special exhibition in the Anton-Hanak-Museum: Artists of the Hagenbund
  • 1991 Special exhibition in the Anton Hanak Museum: The animal in the fine arts
  • 1996 Anton Hanak Museum special exhibition: Vv Eckhardt

literature

  • Galerie Moderner Meister, Kunstverlag V. Angerer, Vienna 1892, illustration “In ambush”.
  • Galerie Moderner Meister, Kunstverlag V. Angerer, Vienna 1894, illustration "Rast im Manöver".
  • Ulrich Thieme – Felix Becker: General Lexicon of Visual Artists from the Beginnings to the Present , Leipzig 1908, vol. X, p. 238.
  • Velhagen & Klasing's monthly magazine, August 1925, illustration “Last sunbeam (stable of the mother mares in Kladrub)”.
  • Title page for the “Book of Honor of our Artillery”, 1934.
  • Austrian soldiers' newspaper: "Wilhelmskaserne Wien", 1935.
  • Austrian soldiers' newspaper: "Personnel Car", 1935.
  • Schmidt, R. Catalog: "Hagenbund" 1975.
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century Vienna 1979, Volume 1, P. K 74.
  • “The Age of Emperor Franz Joseph” exhibition catalog 1987 p. 355.
  • Peter Chrastek: "Victor Eckhardt von Eckhardsburg" in: Perchtoldsdorfer Rundschau 1987 7/8 pp. 7–9.
  • Catalog: "Künstlerbund Hagen" 1993.
  • Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery, Belvedere, "Art of the 20th Century", Volume I, 1993.
  • “Vernissage” magazine for current exhibition events XVI, 6, 1996 p. 17-19.
  • Matthias Boeckl: “Authentic certificates. Victor v. Eckhardt's Pictures from the World of Cavalry ”in: Exhibition catalog 1996.
  • Christa Schwinger (Ed.): Victor v. Eckhardt, 1964 - 1946: Exhibition on the 50th anniversary of death in the Anton-Hanak-Museum, Langenzersdorf 1996.
  • Saur "General Artist Lexicon" Munich, Leipzig 2002, vol. 32, p. 101.
  • Monthly “Deutsche Arbeit”, Carl Bellmann Verlag, Prague, illustration “Heimfahrt am Abend”.

Web links

Commons : Victor v. Eckhardt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wladimir Aichelburg - 150 Years of the Künstlerhaus Wien . Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ see wording of the nobility survey on www.krejsa-macmanus.eu
  3. ^ Directory of the reins students Dr. Wilhelm Steigelmann
  4. ^ Exhibition catalog of March 6, 1894: watercolor "Rast im Manöver"
  5. ↑ 1 oil painting "Drive home in the evening"
  6. ↑ 1 oil painting "Horse portrait"
  7. ↑ 1 oil painting "Evening"
  8. ^ Catalog of the twentieth exhibition Constantin Meunier Oct. – Nov. 1906, named as a member
  9. ^ Catalog Hagenbund 1906 "Heimfahrt" oil painting
  10. ↑ Der Hagenbund: 40th special exhibition of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, Sept. – Nov. 1975, named as a former member
  11. ↑ 50th exhibition Secession 1918, Hall VIII and IX Künstlerbund Hagen, four oil paintings “Cow and Calf”, “Penumbra”, “Flood in the Shade” and “In the Weiden” with handwritten note: “Sold to Bulgaria, Sofia”
  12. ^ Künstlerhaus Rudolfinum Jubilee exhibition of the Art Association for Bohemia in Prague, 1908 oil painting "Last ray of sun"
  13. ↑ Art Auction at the Palais Ausersperg 1917 "Before the march out of the 4 Lancers" oil on canvas, 36x24 signed,
  14. ^ Exhibition catalog for the 50th exhibition in the Secession, 1918 link
  15. ↑ XIV. Annual Art Exhibition, May – June 1924: Four oil paintings "Last ray of sun (stable of the mother mares in Kladrub)", "Through the water", "Potato harvest", "From past times"
  16. ↑ XLVI. Annual exhibition, April – June 1925: Two oil paintings "Homecoming" and "Bull"
  17. ^ "Oil painting Interior de caballeriza"
  18. ↑ 51st Annual Exhibition 1930 Rudolf Ribarz Memorial Exhibition, March – May 1930 Oil painting "Im Herbstwind"
  19. ^ Austrian war picture exhibition, September October 1934 oil painting "Austrian cavalry horse"
  20. ↑ Anniversary exhibition 1861–1941 61st annual exhibition, Nov. 1941 - February 1942 Oil painting "Volhynia"
personal data
SURNAME Eckhardt, Victor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckhardt von Eckhardsburg, Victor; Eckhardt-Eckhardsburg von, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION late impressionist painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt , Baden-Wuerttemberg
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1946
Place of death Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna