Wilhelm Bernatzik

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Wilhelm Bernatzik

Wilhelm Bernatzik (born May 18, 1853 in Mistelbach , Lower Austria ; † November 26, 1906 in Hinterbrühl near Mödling , Lower Austria) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Vision of St. Bernard , 1882, Belvedere , Vienna
Winter , 1886/1888, Belvedere , Vienna - The picture shows the church stairs of Bernatzik's birthplace Mistelbach .
Weiher , around 1900, Belvedere , Vienna
Entrance to Paradise, 1906, Museum Wiesbaden

Bernatzik first studied law before he attended the special school for landscape painting at the Vienna Academy under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels from 1873 to 1875 . Other Lichtenfels students included Ferdinand Andri , Heinrich Tomec , Hans Wilt and Maximilian Suppantschitsch . In 1875 he received the Golden Fieger Medal . From 1875 to 1878 he stayed in Düsseldorf , where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten from 1877 to 1880 . Finally he finished his training with Léon Bonnat in Paris , where he got to know impressionism and open-air painting .

From 1880 Bernatzik was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . In 1897 he was one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession , whose chairman he became in 1902. After having made particular merits in the organization of the XVI. Exhibition ( Great Impressionism Exhibition 1903 ) - together with Julius Meier-Graefe - he left the Secession because of internal disputes with the group around Gustav Klimt in 1905. Bernatzik was also one of the early members of the German Association of Artists .

Wilhelm Bernatzik was buried in the cemetery in Hinterbrühl.

Art historical significance

Wilhelm Bernatzik was primarily a landscape painter, where he used motifs from Vienna and Lower Austria, a. a. in Lundenburg, in Steinfeld and in the Wachau, in Pleinair painting preferred. He also created genre scenes such as landscape processions and symbolist images. The Heiligenkreuz Abbey and related Cistercian themes appear in not a few works, as the monastery is a few kilometers away from his home in Hinterbrühl. Bernatzik is one of the representatives of Wiener Modern around 1900 and was represented by the gallery owner Hugo Othmar Miethke . The exhibition of his work or estate at Miethke in 1906 was also a commercial success.

Works (selection)

  • Corridor near Dürnstein (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich , Inv.No. KS-1836), 1881, oil on canvas, 73.2 × 129 cm
  • Vision of St. Bernhard (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , inv.no.2705), 1882, oil on canvas, 105 × 201 cm
  • The messengers of salvation - Versehgang (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv.no. KS-6627), 1887, oil on canvas, 91.5 × 186 cm
  • Winter (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, inv.no.797), 1888, oil on canvas, 96 × 78 cm
  • Weiher (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 6557), around 1900, oil on canvas, 100 × 71 cm

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Anniversary exhibition of the Kgl. Academy of Arts in the State Exhibition Building in Berlin, 1888: Wilhelm Bernatzik in Vienna: No. 90. "A Cycle".
  • I. Art exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists Austria. Catalog: Verlag von Gerlach & Schenk, Vienna 1898
  • 16th Secession Exhibition from January 17 to March 1, 1903

literature

  • Ludwig Hevesi [died], In: Art Chronicle, New Series, 18th year. EA Seemann 1907, p. 114 f.
  • NN: [Nekrolog], in: THE ART. MONTHLY MAGAZINES FOR FREEDOM AND APPLIED ART, Volume 15, FREIE KUNST of "KUNST FÜR ALLE", Publishing House F. Bruckmann AG, Munich 1907, p. 199.
  • Paul Kortz: Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. A guide in a technical and artistic direction . Edited by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Volume 2. Vienna: Gerlach & Wiedling 1906.
  • Wilhelm Bernatzik. Exhibition of major works and the artistic estate; February 17, 1907. Galerie Miethke, Vienna 1907.
  • Max Bandler: Bernatzik, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 450 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Bernatzik, Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 76.
  • Wilhelm Bernatzik in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  • Alphons Lhotsky: The building history of the museums and the new castle . F. Berger, Vienna 1941 (Festschrift of the Kunsthistorisches Museum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its existence, 1), p. 174.
  • Rudolf Schmidt: The Viennese artist house. A chronicle 1861-1951 . Society of Visual Artists Vienna, Vienna 1951, pp. 75, 100 f., 104.
  • Robert Weissenberger: The Vienna Secession. Jugend & Volk, Vienna [u. a.] 1971, p. 254.
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century . Volume 1: A-F. Vienna: self-published 1972.
  • Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 439.
  • Andreas Narzt: The correspondence between Paul Durand-Ruels and Wilhelm Bernatzik and Paul Cassirer. In: Vienna - Paris. van Gogh, Cézanne and Austria's Modernism 1880–1960. Brandstätter, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85033-107-4 , pp. 214-231.
  • Günter Meißner: Bernatzik, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22751-5 , p. 563 f.
  • Catalog for the 14th special exhibition of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, p. 115

Web links

Commons : Collection of Pictures  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cultural news from the Weinviertel. Issue 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Eduard_Peithner_von_Lichtenfelshttps: //dewiki.de ›Lexicon›
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 426
  4. ↑ Deutscher Künstlerbund eV - Members since 1903 (service-blocks.xyz ›page)
  5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Bernatzik, Wilhelm ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 1, 2015)
  6. ^ Art Chronicle, New Series, 18th year. EA Seemann 1907, p. 248: Galerie Miethke has currently organized a commemorative exhibition of the works of Wilhelm Bernatzik, which comprehensively illustrates the artist's life. Bernatzik's appreciation is evidently on the rise, because a large part of the works exhibited at Miethke were sold in the first few days
  7. ^ Working committee of the Austrian Association of Visual Artists: Gustav Klimt, President; Carl Moll, Vice President; Rudolf Bacher; Wilhelm Bernatzik; Adolf Boehm
  8. ^ Sigrid Diewald, Bettina Schweighofer: Reflections on the exhibition situation in Vienna around 1900. On the mediation of avant-garde trends in the visual arts. newsletter MODERNE 5 (2002) issue 1 (PDF): (...) another highlight was the 16th Secession exhibition from January 17 to March 1, 1903, which was brought about by President Wilhelm Bernatzik's trips to Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels and Paris had been prepared.
personal data
SURNAME Bernatzik, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Mistelbach (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1906
Place of death Hinterbrühl