Anton Binder, known as Tony (25 October 1868,

Vienna 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. ...

- 18 January 1944,

Nördlingen Nördlingen (; Swabian: ''Nearle'' or ''Nearleng'') is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 20,674. It is located approximately east of Stuttgart, and northwest of Munich. It was ...

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

) was an Austrian-born Orientalist painter and illustrator.

Biography

He was born out of wedlock, and baptized a Catholic.Eintrag im Geburts- und Taufbuch der Pfarre Rossa
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/ref> Information regarding his early artistic career varies, but it is generally believed that he studied in Vienna and Munich, although he may have been self-taught. In 1890, he made a visit to Egypt, to see his older brother, and settled in Cairo. Four years later, he was living in Istanbul, then returned to Cairo and

Alexandria Alexandria ( ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Egypt#Largest cities, second largest city in Egypt and the List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile ...

, where he also worked as a photographer.Biographical notes
@ Arcadja He may have served as a court painter/photographer to the

Khedive Khedive ( ; ; ) was an honorific title of Classical Persian origin used for the sultans and grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire, but most famously for the Khedive of Egypt, viceroy of Egypt from 1805 to 1914.Adam Mestyan"Khedive" ''Encyclopaedi ...

Abbas Hilmi II Abbas Helmy II (also known as ''ʿAbbās Ḥilmī Pāshā'', ; 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944) was the last Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan, ruling from 8January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914, after the Ottoman Empire joined the Cent ...

.Torben Gülstorff: ''Orient & Okzident.'' Neue Welt Verlag, 2016, () In addition to the above places, he probably made several trips to Italy, lived in Greece around 1905/06, and lived in France for a time around 1911. During one of his stays in Vienna, it is believed that he married Mary Reiser, the daughter of one of his photography partners in Alexandria. During

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

, he lived in England. A number of his paintings from Munich are dated 1922, and he held several exhibits at the Glaspalast. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he was present in

Luxor Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt. Luxor had a population of 263,109 in 2020, with an area of approximately and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. It is among the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited c ...

, where he painted for tourists and sold copies of his photographs. The has information that, after 1922,

Dachau Dachau (, ; , ; ) was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, s ...

was his permanent residence.Horst Heres:
Dachauer Gemäldegalerie
'' Museumsverein Dachau, 1985, pg. 274 () On his 70th birthday, he was awarded the

Goethe Medal The Goethe Medal, also known as the Goethe-Medaille, is a yearly prize given by the Goethe-Institut honoring non-Germans "who have performed outstanding service for the German language and for international cultural relations". It is an offici ...

.Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG: ''Regesten.'' Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 1983, , S. 440 () The previous year, he had participated in an exhibition at the and had been awarded a medal from the city.''Salzburger Volksblatt'' 96, 26 April 1939, pg. 3 In addition to his paintings, he illustrated a few books; notably ''Ausgraber, Mumienjäger und tote Städte'' (Excavators, Mummy Hunters and Dead Cities), by the archaeologist,

Karl Maria Kaufmann Karl Maria Kaufmann (March 2, 1872, in Frankfurt am Main – February 6, 1951, in Ranstadt) was a German biblical archaeologist who later embraced National Socialism. Kaufmann also published under the pseudonym ''Marchese di San Callisto''. In a ...

, published in 1928 by August Scherl Verlag in Berlin.

References

External links

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