Emil Jakob Schindler

Emil Jakob Schindler ( * April 27, 1842 in Vienna, † August 9, 1892 in Westerland / Sylt ) was an Austrian landscape painter.

Life

Schindler came from a manufacturing family who has been resident in Lower Austria since the late 17th century. He was the son of the action shareholder Jakob Schindler (1814-1846) was born and his wife Maria Penz (1816-1885) in the former suburbs of Vienna Leopoldstadt No. 11 (now Upper Danube Street 75).

Schindler was supposed to pursue a military career, he decided, however, for the visual arts. In 1860, he entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and became a pupil of Albert Zimmermann. Zimmermann, he joined but only in terms of technique. His models he found in the Dutch masters, such as Meindert Hobbema and Jacob van Ruisdael Izaaksoon. Among the close friends Schindler was one of Vienna's " artist prince " Hans Makart, Vienna very coined in the late 19th century, in which he could live a long time. 1873 Schindler traveled to Venice, 1874 to Dalmatia and 1875 to Holland.

On February 4, 1879, Schindler married the singer Anna Sofie Bergen ( 1857-1938 ), which already was three months pregnant at the time of the wedding. The financial circumstances of the couple were very cramped; they had to share their apartment with a friend and fellow artists by Schindler, Julius Victor Berger. Was also born as the first daughter, who later became famous under the name of Alma Mahler -Werfel, it was the couple not yet possible to leave this crowded living conditions. During a prolonged absence due to illness by Emil Jakob Schindler Anna began a relationship with Berger. Margaret Julie Schindler, who was born on August 16, 1880 is probably the daughter of Berger.

In February 1881, Schindler secured endowed with 1,500 guilders Reichel artist price, which ended the financial distress of the family and allowed to move to a larger apartment. Winning the Reichel - price artist joined a number of orders and sales images what the family gradually allowed relative prosperity. Since 1885, he spent the summer in Plankenberg at Neulengbach. Here was an artist colony, taught in Schindler (including Marie Egner ). 1887 Schindler was awarded by the Austrian crown prince commissioned to capture coastal towns in Dalmatia and Greece in ink drawings or watercolors. It was part of a major project under the name " The Austro- Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures', which wanted to give the Crown Prince. The trip on behalf of the Crown Prince meant that you considered him the most important painters of the imperial monarchy. He has been recognized with numerous honors. In 1887 he was made ​​an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The following year, his honorary membership of the Munich Academy was offered. 1891 Schindler was awarded the Golden State Medal.

Less happy was his private life. His wife had indeed ended the affair with Berger. However, they had a new love affair with Schindler's student and assistant Carl Moll, which existed secretly several years. Alma Mahler Werfel - biographer Oliver Hilmes sees the cause of the psychological disposition of the two daughters in this Schindler marked by secrecy and denials of family life.

Emil Jakob Schindler died at the height of his success on 9 August 1892, the consequences of a protracted appendicitis. His widow married on November 3, 1895 Carl Moll ( 1861-1945 ). Schindler was awarded an honorary grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 14 A, number 51), which was designed by the sculptor Edmund Hellmer. This also created a marble monument to Schindler ( 1895) in Vienna's city park. In 1894 the Schindlergasse was named in Vienna Waehring by the artist.

Performance

Schindler began first in the kind of Ferdinand Georg Müller forest. In contrast to the romanticized tendencies of contemporary landscape painting Schindler strove for realistic representation. His poetic disposition, which led him to the mood landscape early and quite independently of the aspiring French painters in the same direction, revealed itself first in 1864 in a cycle of illustrations of the Zedlitzschen Idyll " The Waldfräulein ". For his painted landscapes in oils, he chose the motives initially with particular preference from the Prater, and later from Moravia, Hungary and Holland. The painting Schindler's commonly referred to as mood impressionism.

Works

  • Boats on the Danube (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 5525 ) to 1870-72, oil on wood
  • Danube steamers (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 7517 ), 1871, oil on wood, 21.2 x 33.9 cm
  • The steamboat station on the Danube opposite Kaisermuehlen (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 3338 ) to 1871-72, oil on canvas, 55 x 78.5 cm
  • Dutch landscape - canal in Amsterdam (Graz, Neue Galerie Graz ) for 1875-76, oil on wood, 44.8 x 65.2 cm
  • At the Thaya Lundenburg I ( Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 4586 ), 1877, oil on panel, 39.5 x 74 cm
  • Surf (Linz, Castle Museum, Inv. No. G 2022 ), 1879, oil on canvas, 127 x 159 cm
  • White churches (Linz, Castle Museum, Inv. No. 124 Ka ), 1879, oil on wood, 35 x 52 cm
  • Flower garden in white churches (Linz, Castle Museum, Inv. No. G 2023), 1879, oil on panel, 41.5 x 53 cm
  • Yard of a farmhouse in white churches (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 7516 ), 1879, oil on canvas, 87 x 68.6 cm
  • Pond in Atzgersdorf (Vienna Museum ), 1880, oil on canvas, 56 x 42 cm
  • Hackinger Au ( Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 4012 ), 1880, oil on canvas, 90 x 68 cm
  • Alter Hof in white churches (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 5717 ), 1880, oil on canvas, 98 x 74 cm
  • Buchenwald in Goisern (Vienna Museum ), 1884, oil on canvas, 43 x 56 cm
  • February mood - Early Spring in the Vienna Woods (. Vienna, Belvedere, Inv No. 5228 ), 1884, oil on canvas, 120 x 96 cm
  • Parkland in Plankenberg - Lilac (. Vienna, Belvedere, Inv No. 3815 ), 1887, oil on panel, 49.5 x 66 cm
  • Bridge at Goisern (Vienna, collection Eisenberger ), 1887, oil on canvas, 98 x 84 cm
  • Port of Ragusa Evening in December (Vienna Museum ), 1889, oil on canvas, 75 x 45 cm
  • Forest path at Plankenberg in autumn (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 1162 ) to 1889-90, oil on canvas, 59.3 x 42.6 cm
  • Coastline of Dalmatia (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 5971 ), 1890, oil on wood, 71 x 106 cm
  • Adriatic landscape (Linz, Castle Museum, Inv. No. G 2024 ), 1890, oil on panel, 58.5 x 86 cm
  • Mill in Plankenberg (Vienna Museum ), 1890, oil on canvas, 105 x 82 cm
  • Pax - The cemetery of Gravosa in Ragusa (. Vienna, Belvedere, Inv No 2548 ), 1891, oil on canvas, 207 x 271 cm
  • Poplar Avenue after the storm (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 1218 ), 1892, oil on canvas
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