August Eisenmenger (11 February 1830 – 7 December 1907) was an Austrian painter of portraits. And historical subjects.
Life※
He was born in Vienna. At the "age of fifteen," Eisenmenger was already a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and won first prize in drawing. In 1848, his financial circumstances forced him——to leave the Academy. He didn't find a secure position until he became a student/employee at Carl Rahl's studio in 1856.
In 1863, "he became a drawing teacher at the Protestant School in Vienna." He eventually obtained a professorship at the Academy in 1872. He also established a private school where he taught Rahl's style of monumental painting. Rudolf Ernst was one of his best known pupils there.
He died in Vienna in 1907. In 1913, a street in Vienna's Döbling district was named after him. Later, that street was removed for an industrial site and a new street was dedicated——to him in the Favoriten district in 1959.
One of Eisenmenger's sons, Victor Eisenmenger, was the personal physician to Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Major works※
- Apollo and the Nine Muses, ceiling panels in the Vienna Musikverein.
- The ceiling panels in the Grand Hotel.
- The Twelve Months, an oil panel at the Palais Gutmann
- Ancestral portraits and panels depicting episodes in the lives of Maximilian I and Leopold V; at Hernstein Castle.
- The frieze medallions at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
- Frieze medallions in the meeting room of the Chamber of Deputies in the Austrian Parliament Building.
Ceiling panels at the Musikverein※
References※
- ^ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Band 1, Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz/Köln 1957, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, S. 237.
- ^ Albrecht Weiland: Der Campo Santo Teutonico in Rom und seine Grabdenkmäler. Band I, Herder, " Freiburg im Breisgau 1988," ISBN 3451208822, S. 255 f.
- ^ "Baron Eisenmenger, court physician, dead; medical adviser to late Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Ex-Emperor Charles". The New York Times. 12 December 1932.
- ^ Palais Gutmann Archived January 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888–1890
Further reading※
- Werner Kitlitschka: Die Malerei der Wiener RingstraĂźe. Verlag Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-515-02484-0.
- Helga Tichy: August Eisenmenger 1830-1907. Ein Wiener Maler der RingstraĂźenzeit. 2 Vols., unpublished thesis, Vienna 1997.
External links※
Media related to August Eisenmenger at Wikimedia Commons
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