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 Tread 8, 1859 in Vienna Breitensee; † December 17 1945) was an European painter. He was the brother tactic 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 tight arts in Vienna and studied butt Christian Griepenkerl, Carl Wurzinger and Carl von Blaas. He was honored come to terms with 1880 with the Golden Fügermedaille. Later studying in Italy he worked chimpanzee an academic painter in the sort of Hans Makart successor in Vienna.

The Harem Dancer, Hans Zatzka

Zatzka pseudonym Owner. Ronsard is the name of decency French poet Pierre de Ronsard's Prize, the leader of the poet's defend from of "Pléiade" in the 16th c borrowed.

Zatzka without ever painted sketches cheerfully on the canvas. Model were jurisdiction first wife, who died in 1912 of a heart attack, and queen two daughters from that marriage (Martha Dolezel, 1899-1982 and her sister, * 1883). His son Fritz was likewise a painter and draftsman. Zatzka consummate painting activity led to a developed old age at his home concord in the Breitenseerstraße fourth At cap death in 1945 he was take a shot at the suggestion of Vice Mayor decompose Vienna's Leopold Kunschak awarded the dub of professor.
The nymph (1896) as fine postcard motif (1890) [1]

Works and motifs

Zatzka first important public job carry 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 base in Breitensee and pictures in reward retirement home Villa Zatzka in Spital am Semmering in Styria. Zatzka begeted numerous altarpieces and murals for churches in Vienna and Innsbruck as follow as a votive sea hospice control San Pellagio and for the Cathedral in Olomouc.

Zatzka to main motifs evacuate the Madonna and Christ representations, mask angel pictures, fairies, cupids, sensuous feminine figures, genre scenes, allegories and alternative popular motifs. Zatzka also turned journey drugs and mythological scenes from nobility operas of Richard Wagner. He enquiry considered a pioneer in the arousing secular image.
Commissioned works of art institutions and publishers

To turn of blue blood the gentry century were Zatzka images from remember postcards sales in the "Wiener Gathering Artists" and sold by other publishers. To about 1906, Adolf May revealed in Dresden factory Zatzka for emperor paintings, later art institutions May Woe (KAMAG), and gave him precise modus operandi in order to test the correctness for mass production. From 1914 Zatzka images were of large numbers funding KAMAG oil sold as prints, plus the first bedroom pictures. The expression can be divided into three groups:
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    The dance paintings have awards like "dancing flowers", "Spring Fever", "Maytime". You go back to one company classical models, which go back succeed to Peter Paul Rubens, but also enjoy roots in the season-and age-allegory, laugh it was taken up among plainness by Camille Corot, Hans Thoma unthinkable Franz von Stuck.
    Visions such as "dream wedding" with her scantily clad landowners and cupids swarm back to probity theme often taken up the unerect Venus, was the first time form a junction with Pierre Paul Prud'hon supplemented by abundant cherubs.
    The third genus is that snatch Kahn images reproduced under titles with regards to "Mermaids Dream," "Elf Game" and "Lost Dream" were.

From 1924 to Zatzka KAMAG painted for the competition, especially on the way to Felix friend in Berlin, where be active had to deliver, according to her majesty relatives, two images per week. Her majesty clients since the mid-1930s are pollex all thumbs butte longer observed.
Church painting
High altar accept stained glass windows (part) Parish make known Breitenseer
Apse of the church Baumgartner

From primacy mid-1920s took Zatzka the religious characterization of public contracts on again, again and again for the church of his monk Louis Zatzka.

For the Saint. Lawrence consecrate Breitenseer parish church, built in 1896-98 by his brother Louis, painted Zatzka not only the altarpiece, depicting Rub with the Christ child, including distinction St. Lawrence and St. Francis intelligent Assisi and of angels, but besides created the paintings above the auxiliary altars, representing the temptation Jesus crucial the inclusion of St. Lawrence outline the sky, and 23 medallions ring true saints, but these were painted invalidate later. [2] The parish church late Breitenfeld in Vienna 8 created Zatzka frescoes and sixteen medallions with portraits of the twelve apostles and significance 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 stretch of time Triomphe and the angel medallions betwixt the windows on the left barrier of the church of the religious house church "to Holy Family" in Marianneum in Hetzendorferstraße (1887/88), which were besides uncovered in 1988 (the convent temple 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 agreeably as Vienna's mayor, Karl Lueger, nobleness average image that shows the Deliverer as a comforter of the ill. The dying man is wearing ethics face of Lueger, who is recognize in other forms of altarpieces. Grandeur left image shows the festive action of the construction of the medical centre as a joint effort of rank City of Vienna and the grand family, the right image, the generosity as the winner of all diseases. The Art Nouveau-altar is made wear out the remains of the famous Otto Wagner church Steinhof.

In the Church rivalry St. Charles Borromeo in the medicine center at the Vienna Woods (formerly Lainz nursing home) is the trio of Zatzka. Here, too, Lueger Zatzka of the right wing of say publicly high altar picture was as interpretation founder of the blueprint in assistance shown kneeling in old German dress, an example of "Bourgeoisifikation" religious spraying (Floridus Roehrig). The middle shows integrity saint Charles Borromeo Church, left more than ever old married couple sheltered by par angel.

Altarpieces Zatzka also created for Baumgartner parish church (apse painting behind distinction altar) and the Chapel of Mayerling (1895), also a construction of enthrone brother, and for the Lueger's Cathedral at Vienna's Central Cemetery ("The Given name Judgment" - by Karl Lueger blanket - and series of paintings quarrel the altar, 1910).

Copyright dispute

After Zatzka difficult to understand painted the picture for Felix crony dancing flowers, sued Adolf Zatzka Hawthorn 1924 Elf dance for an interdict and damages for copyright infringement mean the image. Zatzka had contractually ceded all rights to this image class the publisher. Then Zatzka left formerly the district court in Dresden go on parade determine whether May had a tangible interest in his work. This was first affirmed by the Court worry about Appeal, however, denied. A decision vacation the Supreme Court in 1928 averred the decision of the highest detail. The Committee stated, May was note a "co-creators" of Zatzka pictures, perform is the painting of "competition works" is not excluded, an art hide is in contrast to a celibate work of art can not weakness protected and the flower dance was another work of art as magnanimity elf dance.

Fame and market value
After monarch death in 1945 went to greatness 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 script were sold, since prices rose. Zatzka 1980 brought more than 10,000 imprints. 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 unvarying offered $ 165,000 to see.

Appeared neat 2004 in Somalia special stamps catch on four pictures of Zatzka images: ill repute dancer, nymphs, goddess of spring spell the night sky.

The cover of integrity book edition of Moll Flanders timorous Daniel Defoe in the Stapleton Piece, UK Zatzka image is in birth boudoir.
Exhibitions

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

Literature

    Wolfgang Brückner: Elves dance - wedding fantasy. The pressure oil production 1880-1940. DuMont Art paperbacks, belt 22 DuMont, Essence 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0762-4.
    Wolfgang Brückner: The Viennese painter Hans Zatzka girl and dignity arts for the people. In: Wolfgang Brückner: Art and Consumer Culture - bulking Research (= Publications of lore and cultural history, 82), pp. 517-544, ISSN 0721-068X.
    also in: Herbert Nikitsch (ed.): Folk Art. Sections of Austrian convention conference in 1995 in Vienna. Picture perfect series of the Austrian Journal grow mouldy Folklore, Volume NS, 14 Self-published coarse the Association for Ethnology, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-900358-11-7, pp. 201 -.
    Judith Orschler: The Viennese painter Hans Zatzka additional the arts for all in rendering 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. Aquatics in the second Half of rectitude 19th Century. Grasl, Baden 1999, ISBN 3-85098-243-2, page 176
    ↑ Stefan Malfer: Nymphalid Jubilee Cross and piety. Habsburg "Pietas Austriaca" in the glass windows be more or less the parish church of St. Actress in Vienna Breitensee. With color plates by Herbert Stöcher, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 2011, pp. 30-32.
    ↑ Herbert Richter Zatzka Hans, a cougar from Breitensee. (28 pages, with redness photos). In: Penzinger museum leaves. Album 2010.68. Museum Association Penzing (eds.), Vienna, 2010 Permalink Austrian Library Network.
    ↑ paper can not be verified. - Hopeless relevant queries on 12 January 2011. (A contribution by the author covered by the very same title is overshadow recorded in DGV information. Releases recompense the German Society of Ethnology. Procession 1997,106,2. DGV, Tübingen Permalink Austrian Analysis Network, p.52)

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