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Eduard Veith (born March 30, 1858 [1] in Neutitschein, crown land of Moravia, † 18 March 1925 in Vienna) was an Austrian landscape, genre and portrait painter.
 

Life

Edward Veith, the carpenter's son Julius Veith (1820-1887) and Susanna, born in grinding (1827-1883), was a pupil of Ferdinand Berger running at the Imperial Arts and Crafts School of k.k. Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Paris and graduated from. Study tours to Italy, Belgium and Tunisia.

From 1890 Veith was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, later he also taught at the art school of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in 1920 and was promoted to full professor.

Since 1911, he was married to Bertha Griesbeck (* 1872 in Augsburg),

His honorary grave was dedicated by the sculptor George Leisek designed and located in the Dobling cemetery (Group 32, Series 1, No. 11).
Students (selection)

    Smolik, Julius (1879-1948)

Works (selection)

Veith's work, mostly in the style of the Rococo, followed by the historicist tradition of symbolist Makart and Anselm Feuerbach and belongs to the so-called "features paintings" of the early days.

    Vienna
        National Theatre: ceiling painting "Homage to the Vindobona", "crowning the poet Ferdinand Raimund" and the stage curtain (1889).
        Dianabad: mural for the swimming pool.
        Ronacher: wall paintings.
        Imperial Palace: ceiling painting in Maria Theresa Hall as winners of the previous competition.
        Citizens Theatre: wall paintings.
        Kärntnerstraße 16: (formerly the Hotel & Schadn Meissl) mosaic facade.
    Berlin
        Staatsoper Unter den Linden: ceiling painting "River of serene Muses through the Brandenburg Gate."
    Prague
        German Theatre: wall and ceiling paintings.
    Aussig
        City Theatre: Ceiling painting with symbolic figures "Company", "hard work", "Commercial", "Traffic" and "industry" (1908/09).
    Ostrava
        City Theatre: ceiling paintings (1905/06).

    and works for many other palaces.

    Landscape watercolors
    Portraits of Viennese society, such as Lotte Medelsky, including Georg Reimers

Awards
    Reichel Prize
    Archduke Carl Ludwig Medal
    Kaiser's Prize

Exhibitions

    Antwerp (gold medal)
    Berlin (Gold Medal)
    Wien (Gold Medal)
    Paris (gold and bronze medal)

Notes and references

    ↑ According Totenbeschaubefund is the year of birth 1858; see Czeike: Historical Dictionary of Vienna. A.a.O.
    According to the other cited literature, he was born in 1856th

References [edit]

    Edward Veith. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, among others: general lexicon of visual arts from antiquity to the present. Volume 34, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, pp. 181
    Henry Fuchs: The Austrian painter of the 19th Century. Volume 4 Self-Publishing Henry Fuchs, Vienna 1974th
    Felix Czeike: Historical Dictionary of Vienna. Volume 5 Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-218-00547-0, pp. 524th
    Silvia Freimann: Eduard Veith (1858-1925). Studies for decorative monumental painting at the end of the 19th Century. Dissertation, Salzburg 2006th
    Alfred Weidinger: The Princess - Sleeping Beauty. In: The Sleeping Beauty. Ed Agnes Husslein-Arco and Alfred Weidinger, Belvedere, Vienna 2010, pp. 44f. ISBN 978-3-901508-83-7
    Silvia Freimann: Eduard Veith (1858-1925). Annotated catalog of works with list of works. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8325-2790-7



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