Eduard von Engerth

Eduard Ritter von Engerth ( born May 13, 1818 in Pless, then Prussian Silesia, today Pszczyna, Poland, † July 28, 1897 in Semmering, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian historical and genre painter.

Life

Eduard Engerth was the son of a painter and the brother of the railway and mechanical engineer Wilhelm Freiherr von Engerth. He received his first lessons from his father. Later he became a pupil of Leopold Kupelwieser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, whose grand prize he received in 1845 for a historical painting. A scholarship (then called board) enabled him in 1847 before traveling extensively to Italy, France, England and the Orient. In Rome he painted his first major picture: The arrest of the King Manfred family after the battle of Benevento, most recently at the Imperial Belvedere.

In 1854 he became director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where his artistic focus was portraiture. In addition, he completed the frescoes meanwhile begun in the Altlerchenfelder parish church according to their own and that of the presbytery by Joseph of Fiihrich 's compositions. Engerth created numerous portraits and made portraits of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth of.

In 1865 he became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna on Schiller Square. Here he wrote his second major work victory of Prince Eugene at Zenta. In 1868, he painted in the newly built Vienna Court Opera, the frescoed Marriage of Figaro and coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary.

In 1871 he became director of the Imperial Picture Gallery in the Belvedere, after 1890 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and published in 1882 a very thorough catalog of the same.