Johann Fischbach
Johann (Franz) Fischbach ( born April 5, 1797 in Grafenegg in Lower Austria, † June 19, 1871 in Munich) was an Austrian painter.
Life
Fischbach was born the son of Counts Breunerschen steward and studied at the Vienna Academy, in 1821 the Grand Prix for an "ideal landscape " gave him. He came in 1840 to Salzburg and worked here as a recognized painter who influenced the art lives forever. He was also prominently involved in the founding of the Art Association and held here a small academy, at the Josef Mayburger, Hans Makart's father, and his brother Johann Rüssemayer participated and Hans (Johann) Makart himself took as a child, a first Malversuch here. The first training of Josef Mayburger Fischbach has thereby significantly promoted. Especially known his Picturesque Views of Salzburg and Upper Austria, which reproduced as steel engraving were widely disseminated. 1851 Fischbach built in the Swiss style, surrounded by a spacious park, which he designed completed his own villa in Salzburg- Aigen (now known as Fischbach Villa ). After the early death of his extremely talented son August Fischbach fled deep hit from Salzburg and spent his last decade of life, now in Munich, where he died in 1871 in high esteem.
Fischbach is with Moritz von Schwind and Ludwig Richter one of the most respected representatives of the Austrian Biedermeier, which is with high sensitivity picturesque especially the comfort, the Dreamy - mind full, but it never gives the relation to reality. In the constant search for a " perfect world " and a perfect harmony between nature and man he finds in the peasant life those ideals of Romanticism and Biedermeier implemented soonest. It shows an enthusiastic love of the forest and the farm life, to the rugged mountains and rural landscapes and painted fishermen, smugglers and hunters, shepherds and milkmaids in the landscape, without ever falling into the smoothness of a salon liable painting. His cloud studies have been and are confused with the very related studies of Adalbert Stifter.
Fischbach painted mostly landscapes, but also dabbled in the genre, in portraits, architectural pieces and still lifes. He was a conscientious artist, what he especially in his charcoal drawings of forest trees in Germany proved their reproduction by photography made his name known in wider circles. In the Neue Pinakothek in Munich is an important picture of him, the game is near Salzburg. He particularly appreciated even small-format watercolors, which meet his poetic qualities in every way.
Works (selection)
Vesper Bread, 1831