Franz Defregger

Franz Defregger, 1883 Knights of Defregger (* April 30, 1835 at Ederhof at Stronach, community Iselsberg- Stronach, Eastern Tyrol, † January 2, 1921 in Munich) was an Austrian- Bavarian genre and historical painter and representatives of the Munich school.

Life

The Tyrolean farmer's son sold his inherited farm in 1860 to pay off his two sisters and emigrate to America. However, nothing came of it, and so he came to Innsbruck in 1860 and studied with the sculptor and professor at the Innsbruck Trade School Michael Stolz.

In the fall of 1860, he presented himself in Munich under Karl Theodor von Piloty. He attended the preparatory class at the School of Applied Arts in Munich with the teacher Hermann Dyck. On July 19, 1861 he passed the entrance examination at the Art Academy in Munich. There he studied in the painting class of Cornelius pupil Hermann Anschütz.

This was followed by a stay in Paris in 1863, where he autodidactically formed by drawing and a thorough study of museums, art collections and studios.

On 8 July 1865 he returned to Munich and worked on designs. 1867 to 1870 he was alongside Hans Makart and Gabriel Max employee in the studio of Munich history painter Piloty. Surprising his paintings were a popular success, and he was from 1878-1910 professor of history painting in the composing class of the Munich Academy of Art. He painted portraits with fondness, motifs from the rural everyday life as well as dramatic scenes from the Tyrolean People's Uprising of 1809.

Defregger 1883 awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and thus raised as a knight of the personal nobility. He has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. 1906 Defregger's work was honored on the centennial exhibition of German art in Berlin. His students were the Gardena Josef Moroder Lusenberg and Hans Perathoner, Lovis Corinth, Hugo Engl and many others. Defregger also worked together with other artists in the studio, the same style of the Munich school felt obliged. For this purpose, mainly to count Rudolf Epp.

His private residence in Munich, the Defregger - house, built by the architect Georg von Hauberrisser. His residence in Bolzano, the villa Defregger where the painter was staying usually twice a year for a long time, was built in 1879 to plans by the Bolzano city architect Sebastian Altmann.

Franz von Defregger died at the age of 85 years and has been in the family vault at the Munich North Cemetery buried ( grave No. 51-14-1 ).

In 1922 in Vienna Meidling ( 12th district ) was named the Defreggerstraße after him. After Franz von Defregger a street was named in Bolzano: 1906-1929 was today Leonrado -da- Vinci - road so; since 1946, there is a Defreggerstraße in the Gries district. Below the Großvenediger wears Established in 1887, the refuge Defreggerhaus his name.

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