Joseph Schwemminger
Illustration — Josef Schwemminger; reproduction of a painting by Franz Eybl • Illustration — View over Lake Zell Josef Schwemminger (21 June 1804 – 12 January 1895) was an Austrian landscape painter.
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Joseph Schwemminger
Franz Eybl · Vorstand der Deutschen Jahrhundertausstellung (Herausgeber): „Katalog zur Ausstellung deutscher Kunst aus der Zeit von 1775–1875 in der Königlichen Nationalgalerie Berlin.“. Verlag F. Bruckmann AG, M · Public domain
- Born
- 1804 · Vienna.
- Died
- 1895 · Vienna.
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary · Austrian Empire
- Occupation
- watercolorist · painter · artist
- Fields
- painting · visual arts
- Languages
- German
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Life and work
The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting and visual arts. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Vienna. Work by Joseph Schwemminger is recorded in the collections of Hungarian National Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and Bratislava City Gallery.
He was born on 21 June 1804 in Vienna. His father, Anton Schwemminger (1764–1808), was a porcelain painter. His older brother, Heinrich, also became a painter. His sister, Theresia, married the painter Karl Schubert; a brother of the composer Franz Schubert. From 1817 to 1827, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; specializing in landscapes, with motifs relating to the nationalistic concept of "Heimat". He travelled throughout Austria, Bavaria and Northern Italy. Many of his works were reproduced and distributed as steel engravings. In 1848, he became a member of the Academy and, in 1868, joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus. He died on 12 January 1895, at the age of ninety, in Vienna's Alsergrund district.
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