Ignaz Eigner, also Ignác and Ignácz (1854 – 1922) was an Austrian
lithographer
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and
painter
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Life
Eigner was born in
Budapest
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. At the age of 14 he came to 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 1868, where he remained for four years until 1872. After that, he became famous as a newspaper lithographer, especially for portraits of the Viennese society and for his portraits of the Habsburg imperial family.
Work
* Alfred Schönwald: ''Oesterreichs Kaiserhaus. Biographische Gallerie sämmtlicher Glieder des Allerhöchsten Hofes.'' Portrits by Ignaz Eigner. Verlag Sommer, Vienna 1877. (contains 38 lithographs by Eigner)
* Blatt: ''Vom Kunsthimmel des Theaters an der Wien.'' Ein Blatt mit Porträts Wiener Schauspielerinnen von Ignaz Eigner, jetzt in der .
Further works can be found in the Bildarchiv Austria of the
Austrian National Library
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Lithografien
in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
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Further reading
* Heinrich Leporini: Eigner, Ignaz. In Ulrich Thieme
Ulrich Thieme (31 January 1865 in Leipzig – 25 March 1922 in Leipzig) was a German art historian. He was the son of the industrialist and art collector Alfred Thieme (1830–1906), brother of the publisher Georg Thieme (1830–1906) and gr ...
(ed.): Thieme-Becker
Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists.
Thieme-Becker
The dictionary was begun under the editorship of Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) (volumes one to fifteen) and Felix Becker (1864–1928) (volumes one to four). It was complet ...
. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Band 10: Dubolon–Erlwein. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1914,
Textarchiv – Internet Archive
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* Emmanuel Bénézit
Charles Emmanuel Bénézit (; Jersey, 1854 – Paris, 1920) was a French gallery owner, collector, art historian and editor of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
Biography
Bénézit was born on Jersey, where his father, musician Charles Bénézi ...
: ''Dictionary of Artists.'' Gründ, Paris 2006, vol. 5, .
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References
External links
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Austrian painters
Austrian lithographers
Painters from Austria-Hungary
1854 births
1922 deaths
Artists from Budapest
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