Leopold Kupelwieser
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Born | Leopold Kupelwieser 17 October 1796 Markt Piesting, Austria |
Died | 17 November 1862 | (aged 66)
Nationality | Austrian |
Occupation | Painter |
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Leopold Kupelwieser (17 October 1796, Markt Piesting – 17 November 1862, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement.
Biography
He was the son of Johann Baptist Georg Kilian Kupelwieser (1760–1813), co-owner of a factory that produced tableware.
During a stay in Rome in 1824, he came under the influence of
His brother was the theatrical director Joseph Kupelwieser, who wrote the libretto for Schubert's opera Fierrabras. With his brother, Joseph, he was a member of the "Schubertianer" (friends of Franz Schubert), a group that often got together for summers at the Schloss Atzenbrugg, west of Vienna. In 1826, Leopold married Maria Johanna Evangelista Augustina Stephania Theodora Lutz, an occasion which was marked by Schubert's composition, the "Kupelwieser Waltz" (never written down, but passed along by the family and later transcribed by Richard Strauss).
In 1837, he became Professor of history painting at the Academy[3] and, in 1850, was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph. Virtually all of his later work involved religious altarpieces and frescoes. At the age of sixty he fell ill, apparently due to the rigors of painting on wet lime, and never recovered his health.[2]
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Legacy
In 1894, a street was named in his honor and a
Gallery
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Caroline Bonaparte, 1819
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The Lössl Family, 1841
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Anna Schrimer, 1815/1816
References
- ^ Eva Wald: Die Anfänge der Industrie des Wiener Beckens und ihre geographischen Grundlagen. Vienna University dissertation, 1954, Permalink Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund, pg. 221.
- ^ a b c Bernhard Grueber (1883), "Kupelwieser, Leopold", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 405–407
- ^ a b Rupert Feuchtmüller (1982), "Kupelwieser, Leopold", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 312–313; (full text online)
- ^ https://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/download/pdf/1943510.pdf
Further reading
- Constantin von Wurzbach: Kupelwieser, Leopold. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Vol. 13 (1865), pgs.392–396 (Online at Austrian Literature Online) (Fraktur)
- Rupert Feuchtmüller: "Kupelwieser Leopold". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 359 f. (Direct links to "p. 359", "p. 360")
- Rupert Feuchtmüller: Leopold Kupelwieser und die Kunst der österreichischen Spätromantik, Österreichischen Bundesvaerlag, 1970
- ISBN 3-205-98820-5
External links
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- The Waltz in G Flat Major (Kupelwieser Waltz) @ YouTube
- "Works by Leopold Kupelwieser". Zeno.org (in German).
- Leopold Kupelwieser in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU)