Franz Edmund Weirotter

Franz Edmund Weirotter (born 29 of May 1733 at Innsbruck, † May 11, 1771 in Vienna ) was an Austrian landscape painter and etcher.

Life

Franz Edmund Weirotter lost his parents at the age of seven and was raised by an aunt in Innsbruck up to the age of 14. During this time learned Weirotter painting and copying of paintings, from 1751 to 1755 is his stay at the Vienna Academy of Art occupied. He then worked for art dealers and various clients. During his first stay in Paris (1759-1763), he made the acquaintance of Johann Georg Wille. The cordial relationship with Will and training in the artist circle that had formed around them, led to a change in Weirotter work. Will let stand in the great outdoors, to train the eye for landscape impressions and to make sensitive to the beauties of nature. These drawings he later used for etchings. This Weirotter renounced documentary fidelity, unlike the Vedutisten, in favor of the integration of the architecture into the landscape.

A grant from the Royal French Academy allowed Weirotter a one-year stay in Rome ( 1763-1764 ). Will gave him letters of recommendation to Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Mengs Anton Raphael along the way, which gained him entry into the trend-setting German artistic circles. The contacts with the French artists arose about the " Academie de France à Rome ". During his stay in Italy Weirotter also visited the outskirts of Rome and Tivoli, and Livorno, Viterbo and Florence.

During his second stay in Paris (1764-1767) befriended Weirotter with Jacob Matthias polluters, another Austrian Wille- students. As polluters went as head of the newly founded in 1766 Engraving Academy in Vienna, he made an appeal for Weirotter as a professor of landscape drawing. Weirotter should take over the teaching of the great outdoors and to instruct the students in drawing and etching of landscapes.