Heinrich von Angeli

Heinrich von Angeli ( born July 8, 1840 in Sopron, † October 21, 1925 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter who became famous for his portraits.

Life

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1856, he moved to Dusseldorf, where he studied at the Academy of Arts in Christian Köhler, Heinrich Emanuel Leutze and mosquito. A short study with Karl von Piloty at the Academy in Munich in 1858 was followed by the opening of his own studio.

After his return to Vienna in 1862, he had great success as a history painter, but above all as a portrait painter. As your fame grows, he was one of the greatest portraitists of the nobility and at the courts of Europe. Substantial contribution to his rise had his patroness and pupil Empress Victoria ( Empress Frederick ), which he as well as their mother Queen Victoria several times portrayed. He painted in 1880 and the later Empress Auguste Victoria of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Augustenburg.

1894 Angeli in Vienna Picks was named after him.

He is buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group C 32, number 6).

Exhibitions

• 2014: The Prince painters, along with pictures from Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Franz Spranger in Fasanerie at Fulda.