Eduard Bitterlich
Eduard Bitterly (born 17 August 1833 in Dubljany (Galicia now Ukraine), † May 20 1872 in the Pfalzau (municipality Tree Press ), Lower Austria ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor.
Life
Bitterly visited the Vienna Schottengymnasium and was designed by Ferdinand Georg Müller forest at the Vienna Academy to a draftsman and miniaturist. He went in 1855 to Venice, to copy the masterpieces of local museums and churches for a Venice - band image of the Austrian Lloyd.
After his return Bitterly joined Carl Rahl studio. Together with him and another student Rahl, Christian Griepenkerl, he frescoed the staircase of the Museum of Military History with allegorical figures. Subsequently, continued to work together with Rahl many years at the Vienna Court Opera and completed by Rahl's death with Christian Griepenkerl whose designs. The stage curtain and the frescoes in the auditorium of the opera were destroyed in 1945 when several air raids.
Bitterly worked mainly as a history painter and was in Vienna the founder of the idealist painting that came to full development as monumental painting in the service of the decoration of buildings. He was also a member of my k.k. Academy of Fine Arts.
Bitterly was next Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger of the most talented and successful pupil and assistant Rahl. Of his work independently are worth mentioning: the Pompeian representations in the palace of the Ypsilanti family, the frescoes in the dining room of the Vienna Grand Hotel, images for Hernstein Castle, the work the arts for a palace by the architect Carl Tietz, frescoes in Heinrichshof and the Palais Gutmann and the Three Graces in Watercolor ( 1871), known by the chromolithografische replica of the society for multiplying Arts Vienna. Many of his works were produced in collaboration with the architect Theophil von Hansen.
Bitterly was the father of the sculptor Hans bitterly. He was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery. 1929 Bitterly street in Vienna's favorites was named after him and his son Hans.