MARCUS PERNHART (1824-1871)
Mount Špik (2,472 m - 8,110 ft)
Slovenia
The mountain
Mount
Špik (2,472 m - 8,110 ft) is a peak located in the Julian Alps,
Slovenia. The mountain, which is part of the Triglav National Park, is
one of the most important mountains in the park which rises to Mount Triglav at 2,864 meters.
The painter
Marcus Pernhart was
a Carinthian / Slovenian / Austrian painter. He is considered the
first Slovene realistic landscape painter. He painted several times
Triglav.
At barely 12 years, he painted the guest rooms of Krajcar
Restaurant between Klagenfurt and Völkermarkt. The innkeeper made, the
bishop's chaplain Henr. Hermann discovered the talented boys. At 15, he
trained in painting first with Andreas Hauser in Klagenfurt. Hermann
supported him further and introduced him to his patron, the Gorizia
Archbishop Francis Xavier Luzhin. Through this he got contact with the
Viennese art scene, particularly to Franz Steinfeld, who taught at the
Academy of Fine Arts. It was forwarded to the Munich Academy, but soon
returned to Carinthia. There he was promoted by his stage name Pernhart
the famous landscape painter of his time.
When Pernharts drawing
style had fully developed, he was asked by Max from Moro to draw all
Castles Carinthia. The idea was to these buildings if they could often
for financial reasons can not be obtained, at least to preserve the
picture, thereby preserving from decay. Markus Pernhart does not
disappoint its customers and held in pencil drawings smallest details of
the well-preserved, but also the already partly decayed plants firmly.
Already in 1853, he produced 40 drawings followed by 198 others, he
property of the Historical Association for Carinthia. In 1855 he gave
the Carinthian estates Empress Elisabeth, an album of 21 drawings to
which Max Moro contributed. Entitled images from Carinthia appeared in
1863-1868 in deliveries as steel engravings with accompanying. After
his death appeared 5 lithographic panoramic images (Klagenfurt in 1875
and 1889).
His entire painted oeuvre consists of approximately 1,200
paintings, drawings and enrgavings that delight even after his death a
large appreciation.
Pernhart presented landscapes, preferably lakes
and high mountain motifs or castles, but also animals and still life
subjects, in an idyllic and pathetic style. His works can be seen
against the background of an incipient leisure society, they lead before
the regional status objects of his home.
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