Ferdinand Waldmuller

Education

In 1807 Waldmüller attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He returned to the Academy of Vienna and studied portrait painting.

Career

Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. He lived in Bratislava and, in 1811, he worked as a teacher of arts for the children of Count Gyulay in Croatia. In 1817 he returned to Vienna and spent much time copying the works of old masters and painting portraits, genre subjects, and still-life.

In 1823 he made a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Waldmüller later became interested in nature and started painting landscapes, which in their loving attention to detail illustrate Waldmuller"s belief that the close study of nature should be the basis of painting. In 1819 he became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, but was in disputes with the Viennese establishment, most notably for his comments on the system of the academy, where he wanted to establish a focus of the study on nature.

His views were in opposition to the official doctrines of ideal art promulgated by the Vienna Academy, and after he had published his works on art education, he was forced to retire in 1857. By 1863. He had been accepted back into the art circles of Vienna, and was knighted in 1865.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period.

Being an advocate of natural observation and plein air painting, as well as a critic of academic painting, Waldmüller was far ahead of his time. Waldmuller died on 23 August 1865 in Hinterbrühl, Austria.

Achievements

• These are his most notable works, in which his sense of colour and knowledge of nature helped him to achieve masterly skill.

Works

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  • Love Surprise

  • Young Peasant Woman with Three Children at the Window

  • The Homecomming

  • Refreshment at the City’s Fountain of Taorimina

  • The Cured

  • Entrance of the Newlyweds

  • Bouquet in an Attic Bell Crater

  • Prater Landscape

  • Roses in Glass

  • The ruin of the Greek theater in Taormina, Sicily

  • Mountain Landscape with the Ruins of Liechtenstein in Mödling

  • Still Life with Morning Cup

  • Lime Kiln in the Hinterbrühl

  • Yard of the Old, Heumüller, Vienna

  • Wolfgang Lake

  • Evening Landscape with Herd of Goats

  • The Birthday Table

  • The Dachstein Mountains

  • The Höllengebirge at Ischl

  • Early Spring in the Vienna Woods

  • Maid with Garland

  • Depleted Power

  • Rettenbach Gorge at Ischl

  • Children at the Window

  • The Peep Show Man

  • Early Spring in the Vienna Woods

  • The Eltz Family

  • Girl Adorns the Virgin Mary with a Rose

  • Return from the Church Fair

  • The Neighbors

  • Mother's Joy

  • Look to the Mountain Town of Mola at Taormina

  • The Oldest Child Takes Care of Brothers and Sisters in the Absence of Parents

  • Roses

  • Blessing

  • Tree by the Brook

  • Singing Children

  • Time of Roses

  • Church Attendance in the Spring

  • Seizure

  • The Hohenzollern Waterfall in Jainzental

  • Traunsee with Orth Castle

  • Children

  • Grandma’s Birthday

  • The Request of the Child (the Old Chest)

  • The Violet Girl

  • After Confiscation

  • The Roman Ruins in Schoenbrunn

  • Rushwood Collectors in the Vienna Woods

  • The Expected Woman

  • The Veneration of St. John of Nepomuk

  • A Lady in a White Dress and Shawl Before a Viennese Landscape

  • Poor wishers

  • The Violets Pickers (Early Spring in the Vienna Woods)

  • The Sick Pilgrim

  • Hallstatt

  • Vienna Woods Landscape with Wildegg Castle

  • The Halted Pilgrimage (the Assistance)

  • Christmas Morning

  • The Ruin Lichtenstein at Mödling

  • At the Fountain in Taormina

  • Palm Sunday

  • Tree Studies from Rome

  • Still Life with Ostriches, Fish and Exotic Fruit

  • Four Shop Signs (Hygieia, Hippocrates, Galen and Fauna) for the Pharmacy

  • Bouquet of Roses at the Window

  • At the Monastery Gate

  • Lake Fuschel with Schafberg Mountain

  • The Homecoming

  • Venetian Fruit Seller

  • The Day Laborer with His Son

  • Self Portrait at the Age of 35

  • Old Elms in Prater

  • The Bailout

  • Pfamgasse Street in Saint Wolfgang

  • Grandfather's Birthday

  • Maple Trees near Ischl

  • The Schönberg Seen from Hoisernradalpe

  • View to Mödling

  • Construction Laborers Receiving their Breakfast

  • The Departure of the Conscript

  • Homecoming from the Harvest (On Lake Zug)

  • A Traveling Family of Beggars Ii Rewarded by Poor Peasants on Christmas Eve

  • Scene after the Fire of Mariazell

  • Logo of the Restaurant Zum Schwarzen Kameel

  • Homecoming into the Fathers House

  • The Coister Soup

  • At the Ruins of the Fire

  • Lower-Austrian Peasant Wedding

  • Children Received their Breakfast

  • The Grandmother’s Birthday

  • Farewell to the Bride

  • Grandmother with Three Grandchildren

  • The charity

  • Corpus Christi Morning

  • Farewell to the Bride by the Parents

  • Charity

  • Fruit Still Life with an Amazon parrot

  • Children in the Press House

  • The Lovers at a Crossroads. Return from Work

  • At the Farrier

  • After School

  • Still life with Roses, Strawberries, and Bread

  • Children of poor parents get winter clothes from the community on Spittelberg on Saint Michael's Day

  • Girl Lost in Contemplation of an Image of the Virgin

  • The Pipe Dealer in the Café

  • After Confirmation (Departure of the Godmother)

  • The Young Boy with the Stable Lantern

  • Mill at the Outlet of the Königssee

  • View of the Dachstein Mountains with the Hallstättersee Lake from the Hütteneckalpe at Ischl

  • Ruins of the Temple of Juno at Girgenti Lancinia

  • Trees in the Prater with Seated Figures

  • Sunday Rest

  • Meeting in the Woods

  • Mountain Landscape with Vineyard

  • The Pilgrims Resting

  • Bad Ischl

  • Women Bathing at the Brook

  • The Radhausberg at Gastein

  • Mountains of Arco at Riva

  • Dachstein Mountains from the Place of Sophie

  • Extreme Unction

Connections

1st spouse:

Katharina Weidner

2nd spouse:

Anna Bayer

classmate:

Josef Kriehuber

teacher:

Hubert Maurer

teacher:

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder

teacher:

Joseph Lange

teacher:

Johann Nepomuk Schodlberger

References

• Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller (German edition)
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