Richard Alfred Eugen Jettel (20 March 1845 – 27 August 1901) was a painter, producing mainly

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. He was from

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. He studied at the

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and moved to

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in 1873, before moving back to Vienna in 1897 and serving as a co-founder of the

Vienna Secession The Vienna Secession (german: Wiener Secession; also known as ''the Union of Austrian Artists'', or ''Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs'') is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austri ...

. He was made a Knight of the

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in 1898.

Life

Jettel was the son of Sophie and Ladislaus Hugo Jettel, an ironworks-administrator. After his mother's death, the family moved to

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. His father died before he was 15. In 1860, Jettel entered the class of

Albert Zimmermann August Albert Zimmermann (born Zittau, September 20, 1808 - died Munich, October 18, 1888) was a German painter. He was the brother of painters Max, Richard, and Robert Zimmermann, and served as Max's teacher. He was primarily self-taught as a ...

in the

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, where he met

Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler (27 April 1842 – 9 August 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler. Life He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in ...

, Robert Russ and Rudolf Ribarz; there, he studied

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and stayed until 1869. Study tours took him to France, the Netherlands,

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and Hungary. In 1868 he became a member of the

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, and would exhibit several times there. While in Vienna, he came under August von Pettenkofen's influence. In 1872-73 he travelled around Italy with Leopold Carl Müller. Jettel moved to Paris in 1873 to take up a well-paying job for the Austrian art dealer

Charles Sedelmeyer Charles Sedelmeyer (30 April 1837, Vienna – 9 August 1925, Paris) was an Austrian and French art dealer, collector, and publisher active in Paris from 1866, with premises at 6 rue de la Rochefoucauld. He is credited with popularising the Dut ...

, and led a successful artistic life there. Sedelmeyer may have hoped that Jettel would marry his daughter. However, instead, he married Cäcilie Mailer, the daughter of the owner of a glovemaker from Vienna. Sedelmeyer reduced his salary, and the couple found themselves in financial distress. He had exhibitions in 1877–81 at the Salon des Champs-Elysées and in 1890–97 at the

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, and he was nominated as a member of the 1889 Exposition Universelle jury. In 1898, he was made a Knight of the

. He was at the centre of a circle of Austrian and German artists in Paris, but also had contact with French peers (including serving as a teacher to ) and ties to the

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. An inheritance gave him the means to return to Vienna in 1897. He was a founding member of the

, sat on the Secession's working committee, and his work was shown at the group's fourth exhibition in 1899. Still successful artistically, he received patronage from

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and his wife Archduchess Maria Theresia. In his last years, he visited Istria many times to paint landscapes. Jettel died on 27 August 1901 in Lussingrande, before the start of an Adriatic study trip with the Archdruke. He was buried in the cemetery of Saint Anne in

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. In '' Ver Sacrum'', the Secession named him "a great artist, a true friend and never to be forgotten." His brother, Wladimir Eugen Eudard Jettel (1843-1910), was also a landscape painter; however, he was trained in

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Honours

*Gold Medal, 1st Class in

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, 1874; for the pictures ''Forest Landscape'' and ''Hintersee''. *Great Gold Medal in

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, 1877 *Gold Medal in

, 1889 *Gold Medal in Antwerp, 1893 *Gold Medal in

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, 1893 *First Class Medal in Antwerp, 1894 World Exhibition *Great Gold Medal in

, 1897 *Knight of the

, 1898 *''Eugen-Jettel-Weg'' (Eugen Jettel Way) in

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, named in his honour in 1932

Selected works

*''Evening in the Harbour'', 1882 *''From the Forest of Fontainbleau'' *''Cottage Garden'', 1892 *''Tree Landscape'', about 1861 *''The Hintersee in Berchtesgaden'', 1864 *''Ducks on the River'', 1890 *''Riverbank in Hungary'' to 1871 *''High Mountain'', about 1868 *''Dutch River Landscape'', 1883 *''Dutch Landscape with Peasant Plowing'', 1870 *''Motif at Szered in Hungary'', 1871 *''Prater game with Bathers'', 1869 *''Lakeshore'', 1867 *''Hungarian Landscape'', 1871 *''Torrent'', 1860 *''Village Road in Brittany'', 1895

References

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jettel, Eugen 1845 births 1901 deaths People from Rýmařov Artists from the Margraviate of Moravia Painters from Austria-Hungary Members of the Vienna Secession Landscape painters Art Nouveau painters Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni Expatriates in France Knights of the Legion of Honour