Josef Feid

Joseph Michael Feid (* February 21, 1806 in Vienna, † April 8, 1870 in Weidling, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Josef Feid was in what was then a suburb of Vienna Wieden No. 519 (now Vienna line rights 30), the son of Michael Veit, a school servant at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, was born. Feid studied at the Academy of Architecture of Peter von Nobile, but then turned to landscape painting. From 1828 he exhibited at the exhibitions of the Academy, in 1850 and the New Austrian Art Association. Feid was good friends with the famous landscape painter Friedrich Gauer man with whom he has collaborated.

Josef Feid was buried in the cemetery Weidling. In his honor, the Feidweg in Weidling and Feidstraße in Vienna - Atzgersdorf was named.

Performance

Josef Feid was a pure landscape painter who preferred motifs from the environs of Vienna and from the Salzkammergut represented. Especially typical of him is the design of forest landscapes, giving him 1903, the term " forest man from the Vienna Woods " by the art critic Ludwig Hevesi earned.

Works

• Dusk at Castle Access Stein ( St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 6354 ), 1832, oil on wood, 35.5 × 47.7 cm
• Aggstein castle ruins (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 7390 ) to 1830-35, oil on canvas, 52.6 × 65.8 cm
• The rear Langbathsee (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 5721 ), 1834, oil on wood, 33.5 × 45 cm