August von Pettenkofen
August von Pettenkofen (10 May 1822 – 21 March 1889) was an Austrian painter.
Biography
Pettenkofen was born in
Galitzia.[1] After his father's death, he grew up with the family of his cousin Ferdinand von Saar in Vienna. In 1834, giving up a military career,[2] he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Leopold Kupelwieser and Franz Eybl. At this time, he painted genre works in typical Biedermeier
style.
During the
Barbizon school. His paintings are recognized for the sincerity with which the artist depicts the uneventful melancholy life of Hungarian peasants and gypsies, without any theatrical pathos or forced humour.[1]
He was admitted as a member of the Vienna Academy in 1866 and, in 1872, became an honorary member of the
Zentralfriedhof
.
Selected paintings
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The Birdcage -
The Village Scribe -
Emperor Franz Josephat the Taborbrücke -
Portrait of József Borsos -
Hungarian Hussar -
Gypsy Children
References
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pettenkofen, August von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 336.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
Sources
- Arpad Weixlgärtner (1907), "Pettenkofen, August Ritter von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 53, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 32–35
- * R. Mikula: "Pettenkofer (Pettenkofen) August von". In: ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, p. 11.
External links
Media related to August von Pettenkofen at Wikimedia Commons
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