ANTON SCHRÖDL

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Anton Schrödl (1820-1906) was an Austrian painter of animals and genre scenes of rural areas. His family members were craft’s persons, his father was an ironmonger, and older-brother, was an ivory carver and sculptor. At the age of only thirteen, he was able to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts. He began his career as a lithographer for the art publishers. During 1860-70 he worked as a garden designer. Animals and landscape paintings were his specialties. He travelled widely every summer, including a trip to Algeria, where he produced some very popular lithographs.

His work on rural scenes provides excellent documentation on Austrian Rural Life of an age when his contemporary painters were busy capturing urban life, scenes of Venice, or exotic and romantic life in the middle east and oriental countries. He consistently uses dark earthy browns to fill up the board edge to edge. He shows surface textures, both, through colour and shadows. 

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MODEST URGELL INGLADA

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Modest Urgell was a painter and Playwright. He was born in Barcelona (1839-1919). He studied art at the Llotja art school, with the leading realist painter of Catalonia, Ramon Martí Alsina. He was a painter of Romanticism and Realism, both, most important art trends of 19^th C. He then worked in Modernism.

Urgell landscapes are inspired by nearly 50 different geographical places, mostly in Spain and France. He produced a large body of work, most of which consisted of landscapes and similar themes that ‘depict seascapes, village streets, hermitages, cemeteries, real places, desolate landscapes, ruins, twilight, stillness and isolated places, fields, villages and beaches’. He sketched en plein air.

In many works he engaged himself to a constant theme but with versions and variations. He was often called a painter of ‘more of the same’. He rarely used the sunny light, as considered that as the ‘prose of the landscape’. In the later phase, he experimented with low horizons to depict the skies, but was not very successful.

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FRANZ RICHARD UNTERBERGER

 

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Franz Richard Unterberger (1838-1902) was born in Innsbruck, Austria. He was an avid traveller who mostly visited Venice and the South of Italy, mainly the surroundings of Naples and Sicily. By the 1870’s Unterberger was already exhibiting in major cities across Europe including, Paris, Boston, Munich, Brussels, Berlin and Vienna among others.

Unterberger style was romantic. Venice and the South of Sicily offered him his best subjects. He was able to capture the atmosphere of the place, be, it city architecture, terrains or water fronts. His topics were as varied as his perspectives and colours. He had clever capacity to bring in the evening glow off the surface and soft illumination of misty weather. He was a skilled artist to do that in any colour pallette.