Leo Samberger - Portrait des Malers Gabriel von Hackl

Gabriel (von) Hackl (24 March 1843 – 5 June 1926) was a German

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painter.

Life and work

He was born in Maribor,

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. A surgeon's son, he attended the gymnasium in his home town and the city school in Graz. To fulfil his father's wishes he then studied anatomy, archaeology and drawing at the

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. In 1865 he moved to Munich, at whose

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he studied under Alexander Wagner and

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. He then took a place at the Münchner

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and married Sophie Schmid. In 1878 he became a professor and lecturer in drawing at the Münchner Kunstakademie, holding the position until 1919. His colleagues there included

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and

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. He was a member of the '' Luitpold-Gruppe'', founded in 1896 as a sub-division of the '' Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft''. The Luitpold-Gruppe also included Hugo Bürgel (its president), Walter Firle, Fritz Baer, Karl Marr, Johann Sperl and

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. Several artists trained by Hackl found success, though he had no lasting success with his own work, which still occasionally appears at auction.Hackl's paintings on artnet
/ref> He died on 5 June 1926, in Munich.

Notable pupils

*1880:

Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt (30 May 1858, in Bamberg – 29 October 1915, in Munich) was a German painter, illustrator and watercolorist; noted for genre and historical scenes, most of which include horses. Biography He came from a family of ...

*1884:

Albin Egger-Lienz Albin Egger-Lienz (29 January 1868 – 4 November 1926) was an Austrian painter known especially for rustic genre and historical paintings. Career He was born in Dölsach-Stribach near Lienz, in what was the county of Tyrol. He was the natural s ...

, Anton Ažbe *1885:

Max Slevogt Max Slevogt (8 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of t ...

*1887:

Richard Riemerschmid Richard Riemerschmid (20 June 1868 – 13 April 1957) was a German architect, painter, designer and city planner from Munich. He was a major figure in ''Jugendstil'', the German form of Art Nouveau, and a founder of architecture in the s ...

*1888:

Leo Putz Leo Putz (18 June 1869, Merano, South Tyrol, Austria-Hungary – 21 July 1940, Merano, Kingdom of Italy) was a Tyrolean painter. His work encompasses Art Nouveau, Impressionism and the beginnings of Expressionism. Figures, nudes and landscapes ...

*1889: Wilhelm Thöny *1890: Franz Marc *1891: Hans von Hayek *1897: Hans Purrmann *1905: *1914: Henry Ives Cobb, Jr

Works in public collections

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, Schweinfurt * Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna * Neue Pinakothek, Munich * Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz

Exhibitions

*1891: Jahresausstellung der Genossenschaft der Bildenden Künstler Wiens und der Gesellschaft der Freunde Junger Kunst, Baden-Baden *2006: ''Zur Natur des Menschen. Genremalerei des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts'', Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz

Literature

* ''Gabriel von Hackl''. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker u. a.: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.'' Band 15, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1922, S. 416

External links

''Franz Hofstötter – Ausbildung.''
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hackl, Gabriel 1843 births 1926 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 19th-century Austrian painters 19th-century German male artists Austrian male painters Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich Austrian nobility German people of Austrian descent Austrian emigrants to Germany Artists from Maribor