August Eisenmenger (11 February 1830 – 7 December 1907) was an Austrian painter of portraits and historical subjects.
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.Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Band 1, Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz/Köln 1957, , S. 237.
In 1863, he started as a drawing teacher at the Protestant School in Vienna. He later became a professor 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.Albrecht Weiland: Der Campo Santo Teutonico in Rom und seine Grabdenkmäler. Band I, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, , S. 255 f.
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.
Major works Apollo and the Nine Muses, ceiling panels in the Vienna Musikverein. The ceiling panels in the Grand Hotel. The Twelve Months, an oil panel at the Palais GutmannPalais Gutmann Ancestral portraits and panels depicting episodes in the lives of Maximilian I and Leopold V; at Hernstein Castle. The frieze medallions at the Museum of Applied Arts, ViennaMeyers Konversationslexikon 1888–1890 Frieze medallions in the meeting room of the Chamber of Deputies in the Austrian Parliament Building.
Ceiling panels at the Musikverein
References
Further reading Werner Kitlitschka: Die Malerei der Wiener Ringstraße. Verlag Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, . Helga Tichy: August Eisenmenger 1830-1907. Ein Wiener Maler der Ringstraßenzeit. 2 Vols., unpublished thesis, Vienna 1997.
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