Ernestine von Kirchsberg Verfallene Mühle

Ernestine von Kirchsberg Vorstadtvilla mit Garten

Ernestine von Kirchsberg (12 August 1857,

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, Italy – 8 October 1924,

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, Austria) was an Austrian landscape painter.

Biography

She was born in Italy. It is not known why her parents were there. Back in Graz, she began taking art lessons in 1873 at the "Landschaftliche Zeichenakademie" (Landscape Drawing Academy) with Hermann von Königsbrunn. After 1881, she studied at the

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, with

Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels (18 November 1833, Vienna — 22 January 1913, Berlin) was an Austrian landscape painter. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, under Franz Steinfeld and Thomas Ender. He taught landscape painting at th ...

, August Schaeffer and Hugo Darnaut. Her first exhibit followed shortly, at the

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. It was Darnaut who most influenced her style; an atmospheric school of landscape painting peculiar to Austria, known as "". While in Vienna, she befriended Marie Egner and

Alfred Zoff Alfred Zoff (11 December 1852, in Graz – 12 August 1927, in Graz) was an Austrian Post-Impressionist landscape painter. Biography His father was a doctor who originally came from Carinthia. He decided to become an artist at an early age and, ...

, who she later followed to Munich. There, she completed her apprenticeship with him and Adalbert Waagen, a student of

Albert Zimmermann August Albert Zimmermann (born Zittau, September 20, 1808 - died Munich, October 18, 1888) was a German painter. He was the brother of painters Max, Richard, and Robert Zimmermann, and served as Max's teacher. He was primarily self-taught as ...

. She also took up watercolors and was initially best known for her work in that genre. In 1893, she was awarded a prize at the

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in Chicago. She later exhibited frequently in Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Graz and elsewhere; making numerous painting expeditions to the

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and the

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. She died in 1924 and is buried at the in Graz.

Sources

* * Manfred Srna (Ed.), ''Kunsthandel, Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Österreichische Gemälde des 19. und 20. Jh.'', Graz 2009,

External links

ArtNet: More works by Kirchsberg.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirchsberg, Ernestine von 1857 births 1924 deaths Austrian women painters Artists from Graz Austrian landscape painters 19th-century Austrian painters 20th-century Austrian painters 19th-century Austrian women artists 20th-century Austrian women artists