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August Eisenmenger (11 February 1830 – 7 December 1907) was an Austrian painter of portraits and historical subjects.
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August Eisenmenger (11 February 1830 – 7 December 1907) was an Austrian painter of portraits and historical subjects.
Life
He was born inVienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
. At the age of fifteen, Eisenmenger was already a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna () is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1688 as a private academy, it is now a public university. The academy is also known for twice rejecting admission to a young Adolf Hitler in 1907 and 1908.
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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
Carl Rahl, sometimes spelled Karl Rahl (13 August 1812 – 9 July 1865), was an Austrian painter.
Life
Rahl was born in Vienna to Carl Heinrich Rahl (1779–1843), an engraver. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and won a prize at ...
's studio in 1856.'' Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950''. Band 1, Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz/Köln 1957, , S. 237.
In 1863, he started as a drawing teacher at the Protestant School in Vienna. He later became a professor 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
Döbling () is the 19th Districts of Vienna, district in the city of Vienna, Austria (). It is located in the north of Vienna, north of the districts Alsergrund and Währing. Döbling has some heavily populated urban areas with many residential bui ...
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
Favoriten (; ), the 10th district of Vienna, Austria (), is located south of the central districts. It is south of Innere Stadt, Wieden and Margareten. Favoriten is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also la ...
district in 1959.
One of Eisenmenger's sons, Victor Eisenmenger, was the personal physician to Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
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.
Major works
*''Apollo and the Nine Muses'', ceiling panels in the ViennaMusikverein
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The acoustics of the building's 'Grea ...
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*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
In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic order, Ionic or Corinthian order, Corinthian orders, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Patera (architecture), Paterae are also ...
medallions at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts (German: ''Museum für angewandte Kunst'') is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt. Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design, the ...
Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888–1890/ref> *Frieze medallions in the meeting room of the Chamber of Deputies in the
Austrian Parliament Building
The Austrian Parliament Building (, colloquially ''das Parlament'') in Vienna is the meeting place of the two houses of the Austrian Parliament. The building is located on the in the first district, ''Innere Stadt'', near Hofburg Palace and t ...
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Ceiling panels at the Musikverein
References
Further reading
* Werner Kitlitschka: ''Die Malerei der Wiener Ringstraße''. Verlag Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, . * Helga Tichy: ''August Eisenmenger 1830-1907. Ein Wiener Maler der Ringstraßenzeit''. 2 Vols., unpublished thesis, Vienna 1997.External links
* 1830 births 1907 deaths Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery 19th-century Austrian painters Austrian male painters 19th-century Austrian male artists Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna {{Austria-painter-stub