August Eisenmenger

August Eisenmenger (11 February 1830 – 7 December 1907) was an Austrian painter of portraits and historical subjects.

August Eisenmenger (c.1890)
Portrait of Johann Strauss, the Younger (1888)

Life

He was born in Vienna. At the age of fifteen, Eisenmenger was already a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and won first prize in drawing. In 1848, his financial circumstances forced him to leave the Academy. He didn't find a secure position until he became a student/employee at Carl Rahl's studio in 1856.[1]

In 1863, he became a drawing teacher at the Protestant School in Vienna. He eventually obtained a professorship at the Academy in 1872. He also established a private school where he taught Rahl's style of monumental painting. Rudolf Ernst was one of his best known pupils there.[1][2]

He died in Vienna in 1907. In 1913, a street in Vienna's Döbling district was named after him. Later, that street was removed for an industrial site and a new street was dedicated to him in the Favoriten district in 1959.

One of Eisenmenger's sons, Victor Eisenmenger, was the personal physician to Archduke Franz Ferdinand.[3]

Major works

Ceiling panels at the Musikverein

References
  1. Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Band 1, Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz/Köln 1957, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, S. 237.
  2. Albrecht Weiland: Der Campo Santo Teutonico in Rom und seine Grabdenkmäler. Band I, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3451208822, S. 255 f.
  3. "Baron Eisenmenger, court physician, dead; medical adviser to late Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Ex-Emperor Charles". The New York Times. 12 December 1932.
  4. Palais Gutmann Archived January 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888–1890

Further reading
  • Werner Kitlitschka: Die Malerei der Wiener Ringstraße. Verlag Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-515-02484-0.
  • Helga Tichy: August Eisenmenger 1830-1907. Ein Wiener Maler der Ringstraßenzeit. 2 Vols., unpublished thesis, Vienna 1997.

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