Franz Eybl

Franz Eybl ( born April 1, 1806 Vienna, † April 29, 1880 ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer.

Life

Franz Eybl (now Stumpergasse 55) was born in the suburbs of Vienna Gumpendorf Large stone alley 136. In 1816 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the age of 10 years. At first he was with Josef Klieber in Erzverschneidungs ​​and Kunstprofessionistenschule 1817 then with Josef Mössmer in the landscape class. From 1820 to 1823, he finished model drawing from the antique at Johann Baptist Lampi and Franz Caucig before he finally until 1828 when Johann Peter Krafft, the history painting class graduated. 1825 received eybl the Gundel Prize and 1828 Lampi Award. In 1830 he married Antonia Jordan. Since 1843 eybl was a member of the Vienna Academy, in 1853 curator of the Imperial Picture Gallery in the Belvedere, from 1867 teacher at the local restoration shop. Franz Eybl died in his apartment at the Belvedere Palace and was buried in the Viennese central cemetery. 1933 Eyblweg in Vienna Leopoldau was named after the artist.

Performance

Franz Eybl devoted himself first of landscape and genre painting and history painting, in which he sought his themes mostly from the rural world. After 1840 he came under the influence of Ferdinand Georg Müller forest, the light effects he has produced. Eybls greatest significance lies in his portraits, which he counts in addition to Friedrich von Amerling to the most important portrait painters of the 19th century in Austria. In addition to numerous oil paintings he created over 400 portrait lithographs and is comparable in this subject Josef Kriehuber. With this he has to a great recovery and artistic flowering of Viennese Portrait lithography in the years 1830 - 1860 contributed.

Works

  • A Slovak onion seller (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts ), 1835, oil on cardboard, 25 x 29.5 cm
  • Ramsauer peasant woman at the spinning wheel (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1836, oil on wood
  • Portrait of woman Nadassy (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1839, oil on wood, 29 × 23 cm
  • Self Portrait with Hat (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), circa 1840, oil on canvas, 70 × 56 cm
  • Self- portrait in front of a red background (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1843, oil on canvas
  • Portrait of a lady in the armchair (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1846, oil on canvas, 111 × 91 cm
  • Karl Gustav Witt man on his deathbed (Vienna Museum ), 1847, Watercolor
  • The interior of a smithy (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1847, oil on canvas
  • Girl Reading (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1850, oil on canvas, 53 × 41 cm
  • An old beggar (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1856, oil on wood, 40 × 31 cm
  • Count Miklós Wesselényi the Younger ( Budapest, Hungarian National Museum ), oil on canvas, 94 × 75.5 cm
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