August Eisenmenger (11 February 1830 – 7 December 1907) was an

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painter of portraits and historical subjects.

Life

He was born in

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. At the age of fifteen, Eisenmenger was already a student at the

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and won first prize in drawing. In 1848, his financial circumstances forced him to leave the Academy. He didn't find a secure position until he became a student/employee at

Carl Rahl Carl Rahl, sometimes spelled Karl Rahl (13 August 1812 – 9 July 1865), was an Austrian painter. Life Rahl was born in Vienna to Carl Heinrich Rahl (1779–1843), an engraver. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and won a prize at ...

's studio in 1856.''

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''. Band 1, Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz/Köln 1957, , S. 237. In 1863, he became a drawing teacher at the Protestant School in Vienna. He eventually obtained a professorship at the Academy in 1872. He also established a private school where he taught Rahl's style of monumental painting. Rudolf Ernst was one of his best known pupils there. He died in Vienna in 1907. In 1913, a street in Vienna's

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district was named after him. Later, that street was removed for an industrial site and a new street was dedicated to him in the Favoriten district in 1959. One of Eisenmenger's sons, Victor Eisenmenger, was the personal physician to

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Major works

*''Apollo and the Nine Muses'', ceiling panels in the Vienna Musikverein. *The ceiling panels in the

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. *''The Twelve Months'', an oil panel at the

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*Ancestral portraits and panels depicting episodes in the lives of Maximilian I and Leopold V; at Hernstein Castle. *The

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medallions at the

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Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888–1890
/ref> *Frieze medallions in the meeting room of the Chamber of Deputies in the Austrian Parliament Building.

Ceiling panels at the Musikverein

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Life

Major works

Ceiling panels at the Musikverein

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