Josef Abel

Josef Abel, Joseph Abel occasionally ( born August 22, 1764 in Aschach an der Donau, Upper Austria, † October 4, 1818 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Josef Abel was the son of master carpenter Johann Melchior Abel. After leaving school, Abel began an apprenticeship in Aschach. There he attracted the interest of a spontaneous drawings by traveling officials, who recommended him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

The entrance exam was Abel in 1782 with flying colors and because of his talent, his tuition money was granted full immunity. He became a student of the faculty Heinrich Friedrich Franz Anton Zauner and Füger. 1794 Abel image Daedalus and Icarus was awarded on the occasion of an exhibition of the Academy with a gold medal. As the best student of his year Abel got through mediation Füger an extremely generous scholarship, which he used in 1801 for a six-year period of study in Rome. But before he committed 1795/96 Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski as a sign and a tutor to Poland to his estates.

1796 Abel returned to Vienna, where he worked as a freelance painter, but it was through his friendship with his teacher Füger still the Academy closely linked. In the summer of 1801 Abel then traveled via Venice and Florence, a large part of the route to Rome in order to save travel costs. There he soon joined the German Romantics. Through his studies and just copies of Raphael and Michelangelo Abel influenced, inter alia, the painters Johann Christian Reinhart and Joseph Anton Koch. But Bertel Thorvaldsen found at Abel some inspiration and ideas. Abel joined the Association of Artists in Rome the Guild of St. Luke at. An important work from this period is the portrait of the Fries family; Imperial Count Moritz Christian Fries supervised in Rome, the Austrian fellows of the Academy.

1807 Abel returned to Vienna and was inspired by his teacher Füger of the general enthusiasm and worship Klopstock. In a friendly competition with his colleague Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser Schmidt, Abel created a huge painting entitled Klopstock in Elysium: Guided by a muse, received from Homer to the top of the most famous poets of ancient and modern times, Klopstock is introduced into the Elysium. The landscape in this work was carried out by Johann Christian Reinhart.

On February 8, 1815 Abel was appointed a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

On October 4, 1818 Josef Abel died at the age of 54 years from wasting in Vienna ( 1, Inner City ). Because Abel had no family, inherited his impressive work library, the City of Vienna. His tomb was abandoned around 1920.

Works

  • Daedalus (1794 )
  • Antigone on her knees before the corpse of her brother
  • Cato of Utica
  • Holy Ägydius
  • Orestes and Electra
  • Prometheus Bound
  • Socrates rescues Theramenes
  • Socrates as an artist
  • Flight to Egypt
  • Cupid and Psyche
  • Hector's farewell to Andromache, arose in Rome, 1805, Linz, Castle Museum
  • Andromache fainting
  • Theramenes, the Three Graces completive
  • Herrmann after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Linz Castle Museum
  • The Holy Family, Linz, Castle Museum
  • The St. Egidius, the main altarpiece in the Giles Church in Vienna Gumpendorf
  • The Baptism of Christ, Parish Church in Gainfarn
  • The St. Vitus, the main altarpiece in the church of St. Vitus in Krems
  • Stage curtain for the theater in Pest
  • Collaboration on stage curtain for the "old " Burgtheater on Michaelerplatz ( figurative part drawings by Füger )

Portraits

  • Klopstock in Elysium
  • Self Portrait, Linz Castle Museum
  • Molitor
  • Melchior Abel
  • Marie Pachler
  • Young man with glasses ( for some time in the discussion as a portrait of the 17- year-old composer Franz Schubert)
  • Emperor Franz in Imperial Mantle (last Abels work )
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