Hubert Sattler (painter)

Hubert Sattler, Holzarbeit in den Hochalpen (Timbering High in the Alps)
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Hubert Sattler (21 January 1817 – 3 April 1904) worked under pseudonyms,Louis Ritchard,E Grossen and Stähly-Rychen. was an Austrian landscape painter.

Biography

Hubert Sattler was born in Salzburg; his father, Johann Michael Sattler, was also a landscape painter and created the Sattler Panorama of Salzburg in 1825–29. Hubert donated it and more than 300 of his own works to the city in 1870; the panorama is on permanent display in the Panorama Museum inside the Salzburg Museum, together with a rotating exhibit drawn from approximately 150 of Herbert's cosmoramas held by the museum.[1]

Sattler toured with his father and first learnt drawing and painting from him,[2] then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the age of 12, and his father worked with him on many of his early works.[3]

His work is characterised by a high level of detail, in which they were displayed under lights in a dark room to customers looking through an aperture and often a magnifying lens.[2][3] He painted landscapes in many European countries and also the Near East and Latin America, including views of both natural vistas and cities,[4] His views were unusually accurate and up to date; he went on painting expeditions and then worked at home from his own detailed studies and from photographs,[1] while many previous cosmoramas were based on old engravings.[2] On her 1842 journey to the Near East, Ida Pfeiffer of Vienna met him and travelled with him for a while; in her published diary, she recorded how he was stoned by local people while sketching in Damascus.[5] He exhibited his cosmoramas in many countries including in North America, travelling with a specially made temporary building. Late in life he spent many years in Vienna.[2]

Sattler's son, also Hubert Sattler, was an ophthalmologist.

He died in Vienna and is buried in Salzburg in an honorary grave together with his father.[3] The Hubert-Sattler-Gasse in the Neustadt area of Salzburg was named in his honour.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Kosmoramen", Salzburg Museum, retrieved 5 March 2015 (German).
  2. 1 2 3 4 Constantin von Wurzbach, "Sattler, Hubert", Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich Volume 28, Vienna: L. C. Zamarski, 1874, pp. 271–72, online at German WikiSource (German).
  3. 1 2 3 "Ehrengrab Johann Michael und Hubert Sattler", City of Salzburg, retrieved 5 March 2015 (German).
  4. ↑ "Sattlers Kosmorama - Eine Weltreise von Bild zu Bild", Exhibition at the Hermesvilla, Vienna Museum, 11 April – 20 November 2013, archived at the Wayback Machine, 24 April 2013 (German).
  5. ↑ Gerhard Plasser, "Hubert Sattler und Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858)", Salzburger Museumsblätter 9/10, November 2009, pp. 5–7 (German) (pdf).

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