Still life with Pomegranate Grapes and Melon
by Josef Lauer
Title
Still life with Pomegranate Grapes and Melon
Artist
Josef Lauer
Medium
Photograph - Oil Painting
Description
Still life with Pomegranate Grapes and Melon by Josef Lauer
Lauer was born in 1818 in Vienna and studied among others at the Vienna Academy under Sebastian Wegmayr, Joseph M�ssmer, Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld. He devoted himself throughout his career almost exclusively of flower and fruit painting, where he was the first to Blumenstillleben integrated in a landscape; often this was a forest background or mostly magnificent flower and fruit bouquets.
To date, flowers were always painted against a neutral background or a wall, also Lauer did this in some of his works. He built his works mostly on so that it consisted of only a few individual elements and not the viewer's eye blinded by form and color noise. Furthermore is noteworthy that Josef Lauer often omnibus birds or insects in his works. In 1840 he succeeded in his first exhibition, others followed in subsequent years until the decline of Biedermeier (until 1848). From 1840 to the 1860s he had his largest exhibition in the academic exhibitions to St. Anna and in 1851 the newly founded only on an idea by Ferdinand Georg Waldm�ller by Rudolf von Arthaber Austrian Kunstverein.
Lauer, who was a member of the House of artists Vienna in 1861, lived and worked until his death in his hometown Vienna. Although the Biedermeier came down the still life painting itself Lauer worked until his death in 1881 with this
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