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Albert Theer (15October 181530August 1902) was an Austrian portrait painter and
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He was interred at the
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Albert Theer (15October 181530August 1902) was an Austrian portrait painter and lithographer
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
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Life and work
He was born in Johannesberg to (née Junker), anembroidery
Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. In modern days, embroidery is usually seen ...
designer, and Joseph Theer, a gemcutter
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. Both of his brothers, Adolf
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and Robert
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
, also became painters. In 1820, his family moved from Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...
to Vienna
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From 1827 to 1832, he attended the engraving and metal cutting classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
History
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...
. In 1830, he was awarded their Gundel-Prize
The Gundel Prize (German: Gundel-Preis) was awarded annually by the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
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for excellence. He first took part in one of their exhibitions in 1834. He held his last exhibition, with the Österreichischen Kunstvereins, in 1855.
In 1838, he married Karoline von Perger, a sister of the painter . They had several children, including Julius Theer, who had a promising career as an artist, but died at an early age of tuberculosis
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He outlived both of his brothers by almost four decades. At the time of his death in Vienna, he was the last living representative of the old Viennese style of miniature painting Miniature painting may refer to:
* Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small illustration used to decorate an illuminated manuscript
* Persian miniature, a small painting on paper in the Persian tradition, for a book or album
* Ottoman miniature, ...
."Die alten Wiener Miniaturmaler", in: ''Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt'', 3 September 1902Online
He was interred at the
Wiener Zentralfriedhof
The Vienna Central Cemetery (german: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the most well-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. The cemetery's name is descriptive of its ...
. The "Theergasse" in Vienna's Meidling
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district was named after him and his brother Robert in 1930.
Most of miniatures were painted in watercolors
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on ivory. The works of Moritz Michael Daffinger
Moritz Michael Daffinger (25 January 1790 – 21 August 1849) was an Austrian miniature painter and sculptor.
Life
Daffinger was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Daffinger (1748–1796), a painter at the local Vienna Porcelain Manuf ...
were a major influence. Most of his clientele was private, and a majority of his sitters have not been identified. He also worked as a copyist; reproducing paintings Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual a ...
, Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at ...
and Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court ...
as lithographs.
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