Franz Rumpler
Franz Rumpler ( born December 4, 1848 in Tachau, Bohemia, † March 7, 1922 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian genre painter.
Life
After studying at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Eduard von Engerth and subsequent trip to Italy (1871-1875) and Paris ( 1879) he derived the mid-1890s as a professor of special school for history painting at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. During this time he studied with numerous painters such as Anton Burtscher (1887-1987), Joseph Floch, William Victor Krausz, Kolo Moser, Otto Neustädtl (1878-1962), Alois Penz (1854-1910), Josef Stoitzner, Viktor Tischler (1890 -1951 ) or Karl Tucek ( 1889-1952 ). In 1897, his largest exhibition was opened with 230 plants and Rumpler this year was also an honorary citizen of his hometown Tachau.
In his hometown of the main altar of the Franciscan monastery church of him was in 1874 supplemented with an image of St. Mary Magdalene. Rumpler held the Tachauer Franciscan monastery and the monastery church in 1895 also laid on an oil painting.
On his last place of residence Klosterneuburg ( 1904 ) he was one of the founders of the Federation of local artists in 1906. Here also, a street was named after him. In Vienna, the Rumplerweg 1936 in the 16th district Ottakring named after him.
Franz Rumpler died on 7 March 1922. His final resting he found in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 0, number 1, number 90).