Ignaz Eigner

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Ignaz Eigner, also Ignác and Ignácz (1854 – 1922) was an Austrian lithographer and painter.

Life[edit]

Eigner was born in Budapest. At the age of 14 he came to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1868, where he remained for four years until 1872.[1] After that, he became famous as a newspaper lithographer, especially for portraits of the Viennese society and for his portraits of the Habsburg imperial family.[2][3]

Work[edit]

  • Alfred Schönwald: Oesterreichs Kaiserhaus. Biographische Gallerie sämmtlicher Glieder des Allerhöchsten Hofes. Portrits by Ignaz Eigner. Verlag Sommer, Vienna 1877. (contains 38 lithographs by Eigner)
  • Blatt: Vom Kunsthimmel des Theaters an der Wien. Ein Blatt mit Porträts Wiener Schauspielerinnen von Ignaz Eigner, jetzt in der Sammlung Manskopf [de].[4]

Further works can be found in the Bildarchiv Austria of the Austrian National Library.[5]

Further reading[edit]

  • Heinrich Leporini: Eigner, Ignaz. In Ulrich Thieme (ed.): Thieme-Becker. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Band 10: Dubolon–Erlwein. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 416 (Textarchiv – Internet Archive).
  • Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionary of Artists. Gründ, Paris 2006, vol. 5, p. 122.
  • (in German) Ágnes Nováky: Eigner, Ignaz (Ignác). In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Band 32, Saur, München u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8, S. 553

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