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Josefine Swoboda (29 January 1861 in
Josefine Swoboda came from a Vienna family of artists, she was the daughter of the portrait painter
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Some pictures at the Royal Collection
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Some Works of Josefine Swoboda
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– 27 October 1924 in Vienna) was an Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
n portrait painter
Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...
. She was one of the most active Vienna portraitists.
Life
Josefine Swoboda came from a Vienna family of artists, she was the daughter of the portrait painter Eduard Swoboda
Eduard Swoboda (14 November 1814, in Vienna – 13 September 1902, in Hallstatt) was an Austrian portrait, history and Genre art, genre painter. His younger brother, Rudolf Swoboda the Elder, Rudolf, was a landscape and animal painter.
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(1814-1902) and his second wife Josefine (née Müller; 1839-1906), and sister of the painter Rudolf Swoboda
Rudolf Swoboda (1859–1914) was a 19th-century Austrian Orientalist painter. He was sometimes known as The Younger, to distinguish him from his uncle Rudolf, who was also an artist.
Biography
He studied under his father, Eduard Swoboda ...
the younger (1859-1914). Her uncles were the landscape and animal painter Rudolf Swoboda
Rudolf Swoboda (1859–1914) was a 19th-century Austrian Orientalist painter. He was sometimes known as The Younger, to distinguish him from his uncle Rudolf, who was also an artist.
Biography
He studied under his father, Eduard Swoboda ...
(1819-1859) and the orientalist Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892). After her first painting lessons with her father she studied from 1878 to 1886 as a listener at the k.k. Kunstgewerbeschule which was closely associated with the '' Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie'' (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry), among others under Ferdinand Laufberger
Ferdinand Julius Wilhelm Laufberger (16 February 1829, Mariaschein – 16 July 1881, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and etcher.
Biography
Laufberger trained at both the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He i ...
and Julius Victor Berger
Julius Victor Berger (20 July 1850, Neutitschein, Mähren — 17 November 1902, Vienna) was an Austrian painter who is known primarily for his genre paintings and portraits.
Life
Julius Berger's was the son of , who was also a painter. He en ...
.
Constantin von Wurzbach
Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.
Biography
He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...
wrote in his ''Biographical Encyclopedia of the Empire of Austria'' in 1880 about her: "Her excellent work find rapid sale and the only 19-year-old artist entitled to the most beautiful hopes."
Josefine Swoboda's works were mainly watercolors, mostly portraits and (less) genre scenes and still life. From 1886 she was regularly represented in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
The Künstlerhaus in Vienna’s 1st district has accommodated the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung since 1868. It is located in the Ringstrassenzone in between Akademiestraße, Bösendorferstraße and Musikvereinsplatz.
The building was erected betw ...
and participated in exhibitions in Hamburg (1887), Munich and Berlin (1888). Pictures of her were also exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World Exposition. Probably on the recommendation of her brother and Heinrich von Angeli, who worked for the British royal house as a painter, she received the title of court painter of Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
in 1890. With interruptions and usually only during the summertime she was in England until 1899, portraying the royal family and persons of the court in numerous watercolors. Her paintings are still today in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.
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.
Josefine Swoboda also received numerous orders from the Austrian imperial house around Franz Joseph I
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...
and other noble houses, which made her to one of the most active Vienna portraitists. From 1902 she was represented in the "Salon Pisko" by the "Gruppe der 8 Künstlerinnen" in their exhibitions "Acht Künstlerinnen und ihre Gäste" (Eight female artists and their guests). Some of her works are in the Vienna Museum
The Vienna Museum (german: Wien Museum or ''Museen der Stadt Wien'') is a group of museums in Vienna consisting of the museums of the history of the city. In addition to the main building in Karlsplatz and the Hermesvilla, the group includes nu ...
as well as in the graphic collection of the Albertina
The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well ...
in Vienna. From 1886 she became a member of the "Künstlerhaus", the "Austrian (fine art
In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...
) Artists' Society" .
Further reading
* Zemen, Herbert (2004): ''Die Porträtmalerin Josefine Swoboda. 1861–1924. Leben und Werk.'' Vienna. (in German) * * *Direct link to "p. 84"
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References
External links
Some pictures at the Royal Collection
A search at the
Royal Collection Trust
The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world.
Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the ...
, retrieved 20 October 2016.
Some Works of Josefine Swoboda
at Artnet {{DEFAULTSORT:Swoboda, Josefine 1861 births 1924 deaths 19th-century Austrian women artists 20th-century Austrian women artists Austrian women painters Austrian portrait painters 19th-century Austrian painters 20th-century Austrian painters Painters from Vienna Painters from Austria-Hungary 20th-century women painters