Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels
Eduard Peithner of Lichtenfels (* November 18, 1833 in Vienna, † 22 January 1913 in Berlin) was an Austrian painter and eminent teacher of the Austrian landscape painting. In the period 1872-1901 he was a professor of landscape painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and was there 1878-1880 and 1897-1899 rector.
Life
Eduard Peithner of Lichtenfels was born in 1833 as the son of the philosopher Johann Peithner of Lichtenfels ( 1793-1866 ). Lichtenfels attended the Vienna Academy under Franz Steinfeld and Thomas Ender and held in 1857 and 1858 in Dusseldorf, where he mainly Karl Friedrich Lessing joined, but are not directly his pupil. During this time he was also a member of the local art club paintbox. After his return to Vienna he made the campaign of 1859 as a lieutenant in the infantry. In 1871 he became a teacher and in 1872 professor of landscape painting at the Vienna Academy where he. Directing the school of landscape painting took over In the following years Peithner of Lichtenfels led his students several times in the Wachau, especially to white and Dürnstein. The latter enjoyed after a field trip, the Peithner of Lichtenfels 1888 undertook with his students, particularly popular place to study, which also led to the Wachau thus established himself as a painter landscape. The landscape painting school of Eduard Peithner of Lichtenfels finally produced the most important and most avid painter of the Wachau. Students from Lichtenfels were, among others, Ferdinand Andri, Bernatzik Wilhelm, Eduard Zetsche, Henry Tomec, Hans Wilt, Johann Nepomuk Geller and Maximilian Suppantschitsch. Most of these artists were the Wachau life artistically connected, some even settled there. After his retirement in 1901 by the Vienna Academy to Lichtenfels temporarily held up in Nuremberg and Berlin, where he died in 1913.
In the exhibition of the Austrian Kunstverein Lichtenfels first appeared in 1854 with a batch of Iffingen in South Tyrol, then followed representations from Austrian and Bavarian mountains; but mostly he took his motives from Lower Austria and like described forest and marsh games from around Lundenburg (now Břeclav in the Czech Republic ). A motif of Lundenburg is located in the Imperial Gallery at Vienna. About pathetic increased, detailed landscapes gelange Lichtenfels intimate nature of clippings and idyllic moods. He created oil, tempera and pastel paintings. His preferred technique, however, was a mixture of pen and ink drawing with watercolor produced the most fresh and appealing works. Lichtenfels works are now in the finest Austrian painting collections.
Works (selection)
Among his other works are:
- Motif at Pitten in Lower Austria
- Danube match at White Rock
- From the Quarnero
- The summit of Mount Etna, 1880
- The dolomite group of Schlern in Bolzano ( in the University of Vienna)
- On the coast of Istria, 1886
With a facing, liquid technology, he combined poetic conception and great power of humor. Lichtenfels, who painted in oil and watercolor has also executed some etchings.