Wilhelm Bernatzik

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

Life

Bernatzik initially studied law before to 1875 he attended from 1873 the Special School of landscape painting at the Vienna Academy with Eduard Peithner of Lichtenfels. In 1875 he received the Golden Fügermedaille and studied until 1878 at the Düsseldorf Academy. Finally, he finished his training in Paris under Leon Bonnat. From 1880 Bernatzik was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. In 1897 he was one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession, which he was president in 1902-03. Together with the group of Gustav Klimt, he left the Secession in 1905. He was buried in the cemetery behind Brühl.

Performance

Wilhelm Bernatzik was primarily a landscape painter, which he preferred motifs from Vienna and Lower Austria in plein-air painting. But he also created genre scenes, such as processions in landscape and symbolic images. He is one of the main representatives of the painting around 1900 in Vienna.

Works

  • Corridor approach to Dürnstein (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. KS -1836 ), 1881, oil on canvas, 73.2 x 129 cm
  • Vision of St.. Bernhard (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 2705 ), 1882, oil on canvas, 105 × 201 cm
  • The messenger of salvation - Versehgang (. St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv No. KS- 6627 ), 1887, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 186 cm
  • Winter ( Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 797 ), 1888, oil on canvas, 96 × 78 cm
  • Pond (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 6557 ), 1900, oil on canvas, 100 x 71 cm
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