Paintings
The souls of Acheron
Sailors at the port of Pola
St. Cäcilia
Graveyard near the sea
Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (born January 31, 1860 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Timisoara, Romania), † 1933 in Rome, actually Adolf Hirschl) was a Hungarian painter.
life
Adolf Hirschl was Jewish and was born in the then Hungarian Temesvár. He came as a child to Vienna, where he studied from 1874-1882 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. With a grant of 3000 crowns, he traveled through Egypt and first visited Rome (1882-1884). Hirschl has received numerous awards at exhibitions in Vienna, including the Kaiser Award in 1891 and 1898, the Great Golden State Medal. In the 90 years he had an affair with a married lady of Viennese society, Isabella Henriette Victoria Ruston, married Schoenberg, causing quite a stir. The affair ended with their divorce in 1898 and the subsequent marriage to Hirschl. Together, the couple had a daughter, Maud. Angered by the scandal over the Vienna Society, Hirschl resumed his Hungarian citizenship and changed his name in 1899 Hirémy-Hirschl. He left Vienna and settled in Rome, where he participated in exhibitions of the 1904-1908 Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti.
performance
Hirémy-Hirschl was trained history painter. He was in front of Klimt's Foundation of secession with this friend. In contrast to this, but he persisted in an academic style of painting. His subjects were often large-scale history paintings a la Karl von Piloty from ancient mythology and history, like Hannibal's march over the Alps, invasion of the Vandals in Rome, or The Plague in Rome, with whom he had at the time of the turn of the century a great success. In Rome he also painted Mediterranean landscapes and portraits.
works
The souls of Acheron (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1898, oil on canvas
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