Ludwig Michalek

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Ludwig Michalek (13 April 1859 – 24 September 1942) was an Austrian portrait painter, graphic artist and

Life and work

Michalek was born on 13 April 1859 in

He married the pianist, Lili Bailetti, in 1883. They had two daughters. From 1884 to 1887, he worked as an assistant at the Vienna Academy; in the classes for "Drawing from Life". He received an "honorable mention" at the Paris Salon in 1888, and a gold medal at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1896. The following year, he was one of the founders of the etching classes at the new Vienna Women's Academy [de] where, after 1898, he also taught the classes for nude drawing and nature studies.

In 1909, the Ministry of Labor appointed him a Professor at the Higher Federal Institution for Graphic Education and Research. He held that position until 1920, but also gave secondary courses in etching at the "Frauenkunstschule" (Women's Art School), a division of the Academy.^[1] He was a long-time member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus and, in 1936, was awarded their Silver Jubilee Medal.

He is best remembered for several series of etchings and engravings; depicting composers, poets, scenery, technical subjects, and various things relating to the Austrian Alpine railways. He also made reproductions of the old masters, as well as portraits of contemporary notables, rendered in

He died on 24 September 1942, Vienna, aged 83. Two months after his death, his estate was put up for auction at the Dorotheum.^[2] In 1943, a street in Vienna's Ottakring district was named after him.

References

Further reading

• A. Durstmüller: "Michalek Ludwig". In:
  ISBN 3-7001-0128-7
  , p. 258.
• Joseph Meder (1901), Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst, Wien (ed.), "Ludwig Michalek", Die Graphischen Künste (in German), vol. Jg. 24, pp. 119–124
• A. S. Levetus (1908-06-15), "An Austrian Painter-Etcher: Ludwig Michalek. Nine Illustrations", Studio: international art (in German), vol. 44, no. 183, pp. 12–19
• Arpad Weixlgärtner (1919-04-13), "Ludwig Michalek – Zum 60. Geburtstag des Künstlers (mit 15 Abbildungen)", Österreichische Illustrierte Zeitung (in German), vol. Jg. 28, no. 28, pp. 520–524

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ludwig Michalek.

• Literature by and about Ludwig Michalek in the German National Library catalogue
• More works by Michalek @ ArtNet
• Michalek's portraits of German composers @ AKG Images.