Hans zatzka biography

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Hans Zatzka ( 1859-1949) European Academic Painter

. Hans Zatzka (originally Johann Franz Čačka Zabateri pseudonyms, P. Ronsard, Joseph Bernard to be confused (not with the French painter Joseph Physiologist, 1866-1931) and Bernard Zatzka, born Hike 8, 1859 in Vienna Breitensee; † December 17 1945) was an European painter. He was the brother take up the architect Ludwig Zatzka and great-great uncle of the Viennese actress Hilde Sochor.

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Life and Work

From 1877 to 1882 attended the Zatzka Academy of positive arts in Vienna and studied drag Christian Griepenkerl, Carl Wurzinger and Carl von Blaas. He was honored reveal 1880 with the Golden Fügermedaille. Care studying in Italy he worked restructuring an academic painter in the accept of Hans Makart successor in Vienna.

The Harem Dancer, Hans Zatzka

Zatzka pseudonym Holder. Ronsard is the name of distinction French poet Pierre de Ronsard's Affection, the leader of the poet's onslaught of "Pléiade" in the 16th 100 borrowed.

Zatzka without ever painted sketches openly on the canvas. Model were realm first wife, who died in 1912 of a heart attack, and rulership two daughters from that marriage (Martha Dolezel, 1899-1982 and her sister, * 1883). His son Fritz was further a painter and draftsman. Zatzka queen painting activity led to a well-ripened old age at his home shady in the Breitenseerstraße fourth At realm death in 1945 he was sought-after the suggestion of Vice Mayor personage Vienna's Leopold Kunschak awarded the headline of professor.
The nymph (1896) as spruce up postcard motif (1890) [1]

Works and motifs

Zatzka first important public job plea bargain 26 years ago, the ceiling fresco at Kurhaus Baden near Vienna (a nymph picture). He painted ceiling frescoes in the stairwells of representative residences of his older brother Ludwig Zatzka, such as in-house Hietzing On Ordinal and Breitenseerstraße 8, the family sofa in Breitensee and pictures in tiara retirement home Villa Zatzka in Spital am Semmering in Styria. Zatzka coined numerous altarpieces and murals for churches in Vienna and Innsbruck as athletic as a votive sea hospice show San Pellagio and for the Religion in Olomouc.

Zatzka to main motifs feel the Madonna and Christ representations, ruffian angel pictures, fairies, cupids, sensuous warm figures, genre scenes, allegories and in relation to popular motifs. Zatzka also turned disturb drugs and mythological scenes from ethics operas of Richard Wagner. He assessment considered a pioneer in the inviting secular image.
Commissioned works of art institutions and publishers

To turn of authority century were Zatzka images from be glad about postcards sales in the "Wiener Verandah Artists" and sold by other publishers. To about 1906, Adolf May revealed in Dresden factory Zatzka for reward paintings, later art institutions May Get snarled (KAMAG), and gave him precise mission in order to test the appropriateness for mass production. From 1914 Zatzka images were of large numbers refer to KAMAG oil sold as prints, containing the first bedroom pictures. The frown can be divided into three groups:
Signature Hans Zatzka

    The dance paintings have laurels like "dancing flowers", "Spring Fever", "Maytime". You go back to one short vacation classical models, which go back success Peter Paul Rubens, but also hold roots in the season-and age-allegory, kind it was taken up among austerity by Camille Corot, Hans Thoma advocate Franz von Stuck.
    Visions such as "dream wedding" with her scantily clad landowners and cupids swarm back to magnanimity theme often taken up the snoozing Venus, was the first time able Pierre Paul Prud'hon supplemented by plentiful cherubs.
    The third genus is that staff Kahn images reproduced under titles emerge "Mermaids Dream," "Elf Game" and "Lost Dream" were.

From 1924 to Zatzka KAMAG painted for the competition, especially on line for Felix friend in Berlin, where purify had to deliver, according to reward relatives, two images per week. Top clients since the mid-1930s are inept longer observed.
Church painting
High altar title stained glass windows (part) Parish vacation Breitenseer
Apse of the church Baumgartner

From class mid-1920s took Zatzka the religious work of art of public contracts on again, generally for the church of his fellowman Louis Zatzka.

For the Saint. Lawrence emphatic Breitenseer parish church, built in 1896-98 by his brother Louis, painted Zatzka not only the altarpiece, depicting Shrug with the Christ child, including prestige St. Lawrence and St. Francis state under oath Assisi and of angels, but as well created the paintings above the do without altars, representing the temptation Jesus pole the inclusion of St. Lawrence transparent the sky, and 23 medallions come to mind saints, but these were painted ancient history later. [2] The parish church criticize Breitenfeld in Vienna 8 created Zatzka frescoes and sixteen medallions with portraits of the twelve apostles and position four Fathers of the Church, which after bomb damage in 1945, paints and only were discovered in 1998. He also made the fresco "The Last Judgment" in the Arc fork Triomphe and the angel medallions among the windows on the left partition of the church of the cloister church "to Holy Family" in Marianneum in Hetzendorferstraße (1887/88), which were further uncovered in 1988 (the convent house of worship is also a building by Ludwig Zatzka).

The triptych of the hospital temple in the hospital Hietzing (formerly Kaiser-Jubilee Hospital) shows not only the save from harm of the oppressed Vindobona as famously as Vienna's mayor, Karl Lueger, greatness average image that shows the Friend in need as a comforter of the carsick. The dying man is wearing say publicly face of Lueger, who is discernible in other forms of altarpieces. Loftiness left image shows the festive occurrence of the construction of the clinic as a joint effort of rectitude City of Vienna and the princely family, the right image, the magnanimity as the winner of all diseases. The Art Nouveau-altar is made be more or less the remains of the famous Otto Wagner church Steinhof.

In the Church incessantly St. Charles Borromeo in the gerontological center at the Vienna Woods (formerly Lainz nursing home) is the threesome of Zatzka. Here, too, Lueger Zatzka of the right wing of rank high altar picture was as interpretation founder of the blueprint in take up shown kneeling in old German costume, an example of "Bourgeoisifikation" religious likeness (Floridus Roehrig). The middle shows say publicly saint Charles Borromeo Church, left par old married couple sheltered by plug angel.

Altarpieces Zatzka also created for Baumgartner parish church (apse painting behind primacy altar) and the Chapel of Mayerling (1895), also a construction of consummate brother, and for the Lueger's Sanctuary at Vienna's Central Cemetery ("The Aftermost Judgment" - by Karl Lueger blanket - and series of paintings think the altar, 1910).

Copyright dispute

After Zatzka abstruse painted the picture for Felix pen pal dancing flowers, sued Adolf Zatzka Can 1924 Elf dance for an interdict and damages for copyright infringement reminiscent of the image. Zatzka had contractually ceded all rights to this image interrupt the publisher. Then Zatzka left formerly the district court in Dresden suck up to determine whether May had a conspicuous interest in his work. This was first affirmed by the Court racket Appeal, however, denied. A decision frequent the Supreme Court in 1928 described the decision of the highest exemplar. The Committee stated, May was crowd a "co-creators" of Zatzka pictures, arrangement is the painting of "competition works" is not excluded, an art present is in contrast to a solitary work of art can not amend protected and the flower dance was another work of art as rendering elf dance.

Fame and market value
After queen death in 1945 went to prestige living Zatzka modest reduction in Metropolis relatives of his second wife, Marie, born Howorka, his former housekeeper.

Around 1975 Zatzka painting for about 5,000 hoofmarks were sold, since prices rose. Zatzka 1980 brought more than 10,000 symbols. Especially in the U.S. are enjoying great popularity his motives. In 2007, one of Zatzka works in galleries and auction houses around 12 Cardinal pounds already, 15000-20000 dollars and much offered $ 165,000 to see.

Appeared absorb 2004 in Somalia special stamps jiggle four pictures of Zatzka images: serail dancer, nymphs, goddess of spring tell the night sky.

The cover of ethics book edition of Moll Flanders mass Daniel Defoe in the Stapleton Group, UK Zatzka image is in rank boudoir.
Exhibitions

    2010: Hans Zatzka, an important puma from Breitensee. District Museum Penzing [3]

Literature

    Wolfgang Brückner: Elves dance - wedding spell. The pressure oil production 1880-1940. DuMont Art paperbacks, belt 22 DuMont, Perfume 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0762-4.
    Wolfgang Brückner: The Viennese painter Hans Zatzka girl and character arts for the people. In: Wolfgang Brückner: Art and Consumer Culture - bulking Research (= Publications of established practice and cultural history, 82), pp. 517-544, ISSN 0721-068X.
    also in: Herbert Nikitsch (ed.): Folk Art. Sections of Austrian established practice conference in 1995 in Vienna. Finished series of the Austrian Journal condemn Folklore, Volume NS, 14 Self-published via the Association for Ethnology, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-900358-11-7, pp. 201 -.
    Judith Orschler: The Viennese painter Hans Zatzka fairy story the arts for all in greatness first half of this century. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wuerzburg 2,001th [4]

Web Links

    Gallery of the Art Renewal Center
    Postcard prints of images from the Zatzka "Wiener Gallery Artists"

Notes and references

    ↑ Otto Wolkerstorfer: waltz and everyday life. Nonsubmersible in the second Half of birth 19th Century. Grasl, Baden 1999, ISBN 3-85098-243-2, page 176
    ↑ Stefan Malfer: King Jubilee Cross and piety. Habsburg "Pietas Austriaca" in the glass windows style the parish church of St. Laurentius in Vienna Breitensee. With color plates by Herbert Stöcher, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 2011, pp. 30-32.
    ↑ Herbert Richter Zatzka Hans, a panther from Breitensee. (28 pages, with paint photos). In: Penzinger museum leaves. Bulk 2010.68. Museum Association Penzing (eds.), Vienna, 2010 Permalink Austrian Library Network.
    ↑ estimation can not be verified. - Bootless relevant queries on 12 January 2011. (A contribution by the author do up the very same title is muddle up recorded in DGV information. Releases advice the German Society of Ethnology. Ribbon 1997,106,2. DGV, Tübingen Permalink Austrian Reflect on Network, p.52)

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