Gabriel von Hackl

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

Life and work

He was born in

Carl Theodor von Piloty. He then took a place at the Münchner Kunstgewerbeschule^[1]

In 1878 he became a professor and lecturer in drawing at the

Münchner Kunstakademie, holding the position until 1919. His colleagues there included Franz von Stuck and Wilhelm von Diez. 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 Wilhelm Leibl.^[2] Several artists trained by Hackl found success, though he had no lasting success with his own work, which still occasionally appears at auction.^[3]

He died on 5 June 1926, in Munich.

Notable pupils

Works in public collections

Museum Georg Schäfer, 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