Wilhelm August Rieder

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Wilhelm August Rieder (marked with an arrow) with other Schubert friends at a “ Schubertiade ”. Drawing by Moritz von Schwind, drawn from memory in 1868
Wilhelm August Rieder: Portrait of the composer Franz Schubert , May 1825. " Sepia drawing " (according to Ernst Hilmar a collotype ( heliogravure ) from the 19th century) after a watercolor by Rieder, signed by Rieder (bottom left) and Schubert (bottom right).
Wilhelm August Rieder: Portrait of the composer Franz Schubert , 1875. Oil painting based on the watercolor.
Wilhelm August Rieder: Portrait of a Child with Crossed Arms, 1846 or later
Wilhelm August Rieder: The adoration of the child

Wilhelm August Rieder (born October 30, 1796 in Oberdöbling ; † September 8, 1880 in Vienna ) was an Austrian portrait , genre and history painter as well as draftsman and lithographer . He is the most famous portraitist of Franz Schubert .

Life

Wilhelm August Rieder was the second son of Ambros Rieder , a schoolmaster, choir director and composer of over 500 mostly church works. He lived in Oberdöbling, his birthplace, like his four brothers until his father moved to Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna.

WA Rieder received elementary school and music lessons from his father. One soon recognized his talent for drawing. It brought him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the age of 16 . There he studied with Hubert Maurer (* 1738; † 1818). He remained enrolled at the academy until 1824 and graduated in 1825.

The works of his early days are close to the Nazarenes .

The son of the Perchtoldsdorf schoolmaster, who was certainly not well off, was sponsored by the cabinet designer (cabinet clerk) Valentin Günther, a friend of Mozart, and by Franz Christoph Artmann, a Lower Austrian government secretary, who took young Rieder into board and lodging free of charge and that for five years Study paid. Afterwards he was supported again by patrons , for example Count Sarau with orders for copies in the Belvederegalerie Vienna .

From 1857 to 1878 he was a curator at the Belvederegalerie.

His relationship with Franz Schubert

While studying at the academy, Rieder joined the circle of friends of painters and poets around Franz Schubert. Schubert and Rieder were of the same age and were soon on friendly terms. Rieder had a piano available in his apartment, but Schubert did not. He offered Schubert to use the piano, as he soon recognized his great talent. Schubert made use of this to an extent that Rieder soon became uncomfortable. So both agreed to meet a sign. If the curtains were drawn on a certain window, Rieder wanted to be quiet.

Rieder's most famous Schubert painting was created in 1825, showing the composer sitting on a chair with glasses. Moritz von Schwind described it as “probably the best Schubert picture”. It was quickly sketched in June 1825 when Rieder fled from a downpour to his friend Schubert's sublet apartment (today Technikergasse 9 next to Karlskirche ). Rieder also took part in the " Schubertiaden " several times . After Schubert's death (1828), contact with his friends loosened.

Numerous Schubert portraits by WA Rieder are kept in the Vienna Schubert memorials “Birthplace”, Nussdorfer Straße 54 (oil painting from 1875 in the living room, based on the watercolor from 1825), and “Death Room”, Kettenbrückengasse 6.

Works

For the Belvederegalerie Vienna, Rieder copied, among other things:

His portraits (alongside those of Franz Schubert):

  • Ferdinand and August, princes of Saxe-Coburg, in Hungarian costume
  • Guard Captain Marquis of Somariva
  • Councilor Demeter von Görög
  • Emperor Franz I in the Austrian imperial robe, life-size, for the university hall in Graz
  • "Child with Arms Crossed", 1846
  • “Portrait of a Belgian officer in civilian clothes”, 1836
  • "Portrait of Georg Hubmer, Schemmmeister in the Naßwaldthal", August 1819
  • and many others, in oil and miniature.

Sacred motifs:

  • "Christ kneeling and praying on the Mount of Olives" (later spread through many, sometimes mediocre copies)
  • “Saint Jerome”, 1820 in the art exhibition
  • “Saint Rosalia”, a smaller oil painting
  • “Die Heilige Rosalia”, life-size, bought from the Wiener Kunstverein
  • "Saint Elizabeth", 1839
  • “Saint Catherine of Siena”, exhibited in 1842 in the Volksgarten Vienna .
  • "Adoration of the Child"
  • "Hagar in the desert"

Some of his smaller watercolors, mostly historical, include:

  • "The Adoration of the Shepherds"
  • "Elisabeth, Landgravine of Thuringia"
  • "The charity of St. Elisabeth"
  • Register sheets for Archduke Ludwig and Archduchess Maria Elisabeth.

Some of Rieder's works were shown in the exhibitions of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna:

  • 1820 "Sennhütte on the Schneeberg"
  • 1826 "Skipper from Upper Austria"
  • 1841 “The Lily of St. Leonhard” based on Walter Scott ’s novel “Dungeon of Edinburgh” (This picture was included in the “Modern Department” of the Belvedere Gallery).
  • 1843 " Maria Stuart says goodbye", illustration for Walter Scott's novel 'Dungeon of Edinburgh'
  • 1844 "Scene from Walter Scott's novel 'Dungeons of Edinburgh'"
  • "Madonna"
  • 1845 "fruit girl"

Most of Wilhelm August Rieder's works are now in private hands and in small collections.

Source: Austrian National Library .

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SURNAME Rieder, Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdöbling
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1880
Place of death Vienna