Peter Fendi

Peter Fendi (Vienna, 4 settembre 1796 – Vienna, 28 agosto 1842) è stato un pittore e illustratore austriaco.

Vita

Peter Fendi nasce a Vienna il 4 settembre 1796, figlio di Joseph ed Elizabeth Fendi. Suo padre era un insegnante di scuola. Da bambino cade da un fasciatoio, incidente che gli causerà danni irreparabili alla colonna vertebrale. Fendi mostra un talento per il disegno sin dall'infanzia. Nel 1810 viene ammesso all'Accademia di belle arti di Vienna, all'età di 13 anni, e studia tre anni sotto la direzione di Johann Martin Fischer, Hubert Maurer e Giovanni Battista Lampi. Fendi incontra Joseph Barth, collezionista d'arte e oculista personale di Giuseppe II e, attraverso alcune conoscenze di Barth di artisti influenti, nel 1818 trova lavoro presso la Galleria imperiale di valute e antichità come illustratore ed incisore. Nel 1821 Fendi riceve una medaglia d'oro per la sua pittura ad olio Vilenica e, nel 1836, viene eletto membro dell'Accademia di belle arti di Vienna. Fendi è talvolta assunto sia da nobili che da gente comune come istruttore di disegno e pittura, e, verso la fine della sua vita, l'educazione e l'insegnamento vanno per la maggiore. Tra i suoi allievi figurano Carl Schindler e Johann Friedrich Treml. Fendi muore il 28 agosto 1842.

The Sad Message (1838)

Peter Fendi (4 September 1796 – 28 August 1842) was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period.

Life

Peter Fendi was born in Vienna on 4 September 1796 to Joseph and Elizabeth Fendi. His father was a schoolmaster. He fell from a changing table as an infant, an accident which caused irreparable damage to his spine. Fendi demonstrated a talent for drawing from childhood. He was admitted to the St. Anna's Academy of Fine Art in 1810 at the age of thirteen, where he studied for three years under Johann Martin Fischer (de), Hubert Maurer and Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder.
Fendi met Joseph Barth, an art collector and the personal ophthalmologist of Joseph II, and through Barth's connections to other influential artists, in 1818 Fendi found a job at the Imperial Gallery of Coins and Antiquities, where he worked as a draughtsman and engraver. Fendi received a gold medal in 1821 for his oil-painting Vilenica, and was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1836.
Both nobles and commoners occasionally employed Fendi to give instruction in drawing and painting, and later in life teaching took up more of his time; his pupils included Carl Schindler and Johann Friedrich Treml (de). He died on 28 August 1842.

Works

Fendi painted in oil and watercolours, as well as working with printing, etching, lithography and wood carving. Multicolored prints by Fendi are considered pioneering achievements in the field of lithography. Fendi is remembered for his genre scenes, influenced by Dutch painters such as Adriaen Brouwer, Adriaen van Ostade and Rembrandt. Other influences on Fendi's artistic development included the works of Italians such as Giovanni Bellini, Tintoretto, Titian, and Paolo Veronese, which he saw on a trip to Venice in 1821. He is also well known for his portraits of the aristocracy and his erotic paintings. His watercolors depict almost all possible sex positions.
Fendi engraved a series five of Austrian banknotes that were issued in 1841.
His works are preserved in the Albertina Museum, the Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere, Kunsthistorisches Museum, and in the collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein in Vaduz.

Fendi der saemann

fendi peter-in der kammer

Peter Fendi, Selbstporträt

In Der Scheune

Erotic lithograph printed in Vienna in 1910 as part of a limited edition of 600.
Artist Unknown, attributed to Peter Fendi

Austrian Empire, 10 Gulden (1841). Designed by Peter Fendi

National Museum of American History

Im Ehelichen Zimmer

Portrait of the engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini (1798-1874). Oil on panel, 13.5 x 16.3 cm

Peter Fendi - Dorotheum

Die Aussicht

Jahrhundertausstellung 1906 KatNr. 0412

Peter Fendi - Vorstand der Deutschen Jahrhundertausstellung (Herausgeber): „Katalog zur Ausstellung deutscher Kunst aus der Zeit von 1775–1875 in der Königlichen Nationalgalerie Berlin.“. Verlag F. Bruckmann AG, München 1906 (2 Bände)

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Peter Fendi Austrian - Fridolin Assists with the Holy Mass

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Peter Fendi - Children on Their Way to Work in the Fields, 1840

Drei Im See

Peter Fendi - Die arme Offizierswitwe

Tanzende Paare

Peter Fendi - Girl at the Lottery

Der Zircus

Peter Fendi - Ländliche Szene mit Kindern - ca 1830

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Peter Fendi - Maid with a Letter (1831)

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Peter Fendi - Studie zum Gemälde „Die arme Offizierswitwe“

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Peter Fendi - The Evening Prayer, 1839

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German: Frau mit türkisem Hut und Schirm

Peter Fendi - Dorotheum

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Peter Fendi, Die Lauscherin

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Peter Fendi - Maximilian Speck von Sternburg: Verzeichniss der von Speck’schen Gemälde-Sammlung mit darauf Beziehung habenden Steindrücken. 1827; self scanned from own book

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Peter Fendi - Maximilian Speck von Sternburg: Verzeichniss der von Speck’schen Gemälde-Sammlung mit darauf Beziehung habenden Steindrücken. 1827; self scanned from own book

Das Liebespaar In Der Kammer

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Peter Fendi - Maximilian Speck von Sternburg: Verzeichniss der von Speck’schen Gemälde-Sammlung mit darauf Beziehung habenden Steindrücken. 1827; self scanned from own book

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Peter Fendi - Maximilian Speck von Sternburg: Verzeichniss der von Speck’schen Gemälde-Sammlung mit darauf Beziehung habenden Steindrücken. 1827; self scanned from own book