Anton Romako

Anton Romako ( born October 20, 1832 in Atzgersdorf, † March 8, 1889 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Anton Romako was the illegitimate son of the factory owner Josef Lepper and his housekeeper Elisabeth Maria Anna Romako. Ferdinand Georg Müller forest had the young man at the Vienna Academy, where he studied first, denied any talent. After studying in Munich under Wilhelm Kaulbach and Venice, Rome and London, he stayed in the 1850s back in Vienna, where he studied privately with Carl Rahl. From 1857 settled in Rome, he was as busy portraitist and genre painter acquire wealth and prestige. But let by the addiction to originality is Romako tempt to peculiarities in the drawing and in the use of colors, which move away from the audience made ​​feed and the material conditions of the artist detracted so Romako, abandoned by his wife to stay in Rome no longer could. In 1876 he returned, since 1861 a member of the Association of the Artists Vienna, back to Vienna, where just built the ring road and the taste of Hans Makart prevailed. Romako could not prevail locally with his history paintings and undertook further study trips to countries such as Hungary, Italy and France.

Romako was married since 1862 with Sophie Köbel, 1875 left him again. The couple had five children. The remaining in Rome daughters Matilda and Mary committed suicide in 1887.

Beset by disease and dietary concerns, Anton Romako lonely in the last years of life. He died at his home on 11 Haymarket, Vienna Highway, a stroke. On March 10, 1889, the artist was in an honorary dedicated grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery buried (Group 41 F, Series 12, No. 15). In appreciation of his person was 1953, a traffic area in Vienna Atzgersdorf, settlement Rose Hill, renamed Romakogasse.

Works

Besides his numerous landscapes ( eg from the Gastein Valley ), which reveal an influence of the Barbizon school, he is known primarily as a painter of portraits and historical images.

His portraits are held in an edgy, almost early - expressionist style, the deeply troubled contemporaries.

His famous portrait of Empress Elisabeth shows all the eccentricities of her personality and was generally rejected, as well as his undoubtedly most famous work: Tegethoff in the naval battle of Lissa, showing the Admiral and his officers and some sailors at the moment, as his Archduke Ferdinand Max the Italian flagship rams. In the usual heroism in such representations is almost completely eliminated, you can see the tension of the situation and the hustle and bustle of the actors.

Today, he is regarded as the most interesting and groundbreaking artists of the Ringstrasse era.

Painting by Anton Romako are mainly located in the Belvedere in Vienna.

  • The vanity - portrait of his brewing Sophie Köbel (Salzburg, Residenz Gallery ), 1860, oil on canvas, 124 × 91 cm
  • Fishing boy on the beach (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 5552 ) to 1873-75, oil on wood, 90 × 70 cm
  • Girl with rabbit (St. Pölten, Lower Austria State Museum, Inv. No. 6670 ), about 1877, oil on canvas, 72.7 × 60.6 cm
  • Admiral Tegethoff at the Battle of Lissa (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 5032 ), 1878-80, oil on wood, 110 x 82 cm
  • Am Wasserfall (Vienna, Leopold Museum ), 1881, oil on canvas, 89.3 x 63 cm
  • Empress Elisabeth (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 4419 ), 1883, oil on wood, 135 x 85 cm
  • The Rosenpflückerin (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 1832), 1883, oil on canvas, 89 × 66 cm
  • Mother and Child ( privately owned), 1883, oil on canvas, 161 × 130 cm
  • Young woman in front of image stock ( privately owned), 1883, oil on wood, 54.4 × 45.5 cm
  • Southern French / Breton peasant woman (Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum - a restitution ), 1884, oil on canvas, 50.5 × 38.5 cm
  • Girl, a Fink baiting (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 7518 ) to 1884/85, oil on panel, 45.2 x 28 cm
  • Portrait of Isabella Reisser (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 2116 ), 1885, oil on canvas, 130.5 × 90 cm
  • Lord and Lady in Salon ( museums of the City of Vienna), 1887, oil on wood
  • Lady in red dress (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 5966 ), 1889, oil on canvas, 78 x 63 cm
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