Eduard Cramolini
Eduard Cramolini (16 July 1807 – 13 October 1881) also Eduard Kramolin) was an Austrian painter and photographer.
Life
[edit]Born in Vienna, Cramolini belonged to the artist family Kramolin from Bohemia, which changed its name to the italianised Cramolini.[1] His father was a mandolin player, his brother Ludwig Cramolini an opera singer[2] and his son Heinrich Cramolini an architect.[1]
Cramolini studied drawing intermittently at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1823 to 1826. He worked as a portraitist and lithographer and, from about 1860, as a photographer.[3] He was also active as a collector of valuable antiques.
Cramolini was very well connected in the Viennese artistic scene of his time. He was a member of the Künstlerhaus, Gesellschaft bildender Künstler Österreichs and its predecessor associations Eintracht and Albrecht-Dürer-Verein as well as the association Grüne Insel.[2] According to a tradition, the Austrian name Gschnas for a costume festival is said to go back to him.[4] In an obituary in the Neue Freie Presse, Cramolini was characterised as "a Viennese in the Vormärz sense of the word: open, straight, coarse and quick-witted, and always ready for original ideas and coarse-grained jokes."[2]
Cramolini died in Vienna at the age of 74.
The Cramolinigasse in Vienna-Atzgersdorf was named after him in 1954.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Wladimir Aichelburg. "Members-total-directory". 150 years Künstlerhaus Wien 1861-2011. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ a b c Eduard Cramolini. In: Neue Freie Presse, 18 October 1881, p. 5 (Online at ANNO)
- ^ Kramolin on ÖBL
- ^ Carl von Vincenti (February 1904). Gschnas (Wiener Künstlerfeste). Vol. 18. Jg. p. 658.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Felix Czeike (ed.): Cramolinigasse. In Historisches Lexikon Wien. Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4, p. 596Cramolinigasse
Further reading
[edit]- Carl Nödl (2006). Die Kramolin-Saga. Die Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Familie. Vienna: Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag. ISBN 3-85437-279-5.
- Schöny: "Kramolin (Cramolini), Eduard". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 206.
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