Sándor Liezen-Mayer

Alexander of Lienzen -Mayer ( also Hungarian Liezen -Mayer, Sándor; born January 24, 1839 in Győr, † February 19, 1898 in Munich) was an Austrian- German painter.

Life

He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich Academy and since 1862 the studio of Carl Theodor von Piloty. In 1867 he left the Academy to operate as a portrait painter. In 1870 he went to Vienna, where he portrayed the Emperor Franz Joseph I and several members of the aristocracy.

In 1872 he returned to Munich. In the same year he painted Imogen and lachimo after Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Scenes from Goethe's Faust and 1873 the signing of the death sentence of Mary Stuart by Elizabeth. There were three boxes of Joseph Victor von Scheffel's Ekkehard, 50 cartons of Goethe's Faust and 32 illustrations of Friedrich Schiller's Song of the Bell, who received by woodcuts in deluxe editions of art publishing Theodor Stroefer a wide circulation. In October 1880 he accepted an appointment as Director of the Art School in Stuttgart, but returned in 1883 returned to Munich, where he worked as a professor of history painting at the Art Academy until his death.

Among his pupils in Stuttgart and Munich included Fugel Gebhard, Michael Zeno Diemer, Otto Greiner and Max Bernuth.