Vito Timmel

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Self-Portrait (1910)
Port of Trieste and Miramare

Vito Timmel (born Viktor von Thümmel July 19, 1886 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died January 1, 1949 in Trieste , Free Territory of Trieste ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Viktor von Thümmel was a son of Raphael von Thümmel, a descendant of the Leipzig writer Moritz August von Thümmel , and the Countess Adele Scodellari from Friuli . Thanks to an inheritance, the family moved to Trieste, which belongs to Austria, in 1890, where the mother founded a fashion shop in Piazza della Borsa.

From 1901 on, Thümmel attended the state trade school (Scuola per Capi d'Arte) in Trieste and learned the basics of painting from, among others, Eugenio Scomparini . In 1905 he went to the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien as an art student and in 1906 to the Kunstakademie Wien , where he came into contact with contemporary trends in painting, the Vienna Secession and Symbolism . In 1909 he completed the mandatory Grand Tour to the cities of Venice, Florence and Rome and then returned to Trieste. In 1909/1910 he completed the one-year military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army .

Thümmel exhibited in Arezzo and Munich in 1910 and in Naples in 1913. In August 1914 he married Maria Ceresar, who died of tuberculosis in 1918. They had a son born in 1915. In 1921 he married Giulia Tomè.

Timmel worked as a painter, graphic artist, draftsman and decorative painter. In 1913 he decorated the Trieste “Cinema Italia” with a series of pictures, which were later transferred to the Museo Revoltella di Trieste, and painted the cinema in the shipyard in Monfalcone . During the First World War in 1916 he was drafted into the kuk infantry regiment "von Waldstätten" No. 97 and was stationed in Radkersburg . Far away from all fronts, he could also paint there.

In the 1920s he developed an active painting activity and exhibited in Trieste and various Italian cities. He then went astray, left his family and installed himself as a painter in Civitavecchia . His girlfriend Anita Pittoni (1901–1982) brought him back to Trieste. In the 1930s, his mental health deteriorated. From 1946 Timmel was treated as an inpatient in the psychiatry. He kept a diary from which excerpts were edited in 1973.

The play La mostra by Claudio Magris , published in 2001, is about Timmel's disease . It was brought to the stage by Antonio Calenda in 2006 , and Roberto Herlitzka played the painter that year.

Works (selection)

  • Gastone Bonifacio: L'imboscato: scene grottesche dei pomigadori dal 1914 al 1918. Illustrations by Vito Timmel. CU Trani, Trieste 1929.
  • Anita Pittoni ; Claudio Magris ; Franca Ongaro ; Franco Basaglia : Il magico taccuino: versione e coordinamento condotti sui manoscriti inediti originali. Lo Zibaldone, Trieste 1973.

literature

  • Timmel, Vito . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 448 .
  • Timmel, Vito . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 178 .
  • Giulio Montenero: Vito Timmel: disegni dal labirinto. Edizioni Bassanese, Trieste 1985.
  • Patrizia Fasolato: Vito Timmel. In: Fabio Amodeo : Punti di vista: il paesaggio dalle collezioni del Revoltella alla cultura contemporanea. Exhibition 1994. Civico Museo Revoltella, Edizioni della Laguna, Trieste / Monfalcon 1994.
  • Franca Marri: Vito Timmel. Fondazione CRTrieste, Trieste 2005, ISBN 88-901667-2-X .
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elvio Guagnini: Pittoni, Anita. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Volume 84: Pio VI – Ponzo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015 ( treccani.it ).
personal data
SURNAME Timmel, Vito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Von Thümmel, Viktor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1949
Place of death Trieste , Free Territory of Trieste