Alois Heinrich Priechenfried
(1867 - 1953)
zugeschrieben
Portrait eines Rabbiners
Typischer Charakterkopf in feinster Malweise.
Öl auf Holz
Bildmaße 36 x 26cm,
Maße mit Rahmen 48,5 x 40cm
Rückseitig bezeichnet
Biografie
Literatur: Fuchs: Die Österreichischen Maler des 19.Jahrhunderts, Münchner Maler im 19.Jahrhundert, Busse, Pfisterer; Priechenfried, Porträt-,Genre-und Stillebenmaler, studierte an der Akademie in Wien, Schüler von Christian Griepenkerl, abwechselnd in Wien und München tätig, besonderer Beliebtheit erfreuten sich seine fein gemalten Charakterköpfe.
Alois Heinrich Priechenfried was a painter of Jewish genre subjects.
Throughout Europe in the nineteenth century, people looked back to the previous century with enthralment. For them the eighteenth century represented a period of elegance, refinement and connoisseurship which they felt lacking in their own age. For them there was also a nostalgia for a society in which aristocratic values held sway; to the newly-rich the emulation of aristocratic taste was some¬how linked with the acquisition of social respectability. The sheer luxury of the Age also attracted them - richly decorated-interiors peopled with silk and lace-clad dilettantes.
To a new Europe of 'satanic mills' this combination of taste, elegance and luxury was irrestistible, and Alois Priechenfried, working in the mainstream of nineteenth century genre painting, was one of many artists throughout Europe who responded to an insistent demand for paintings of eighteenth century aristocratic life, as perceived by collectors a century later.
