FRANZ EYBL
(1805 - 1880) was an Austrian painter and lithographer.
Eybl entered the Vienna Akademie at the age of ten, studying sculpture under
Josef Klieber and landscape painting (1817-20) with Joseph Mössmer (1780-1845),
from whom Eybl also learnt the new technique of lithography. Eybl then spent
three years with Johann Baptist Lampi and Franz Caucig (1762-1828), reproducing
antique statues and casts. Eybl studied history painting (1823-28), during which
period he came under the influence of Johann Peter Krafft, who introduced him
to the principles of realism, suggesting that he work directly from nature and
reflect contemporary, everyday subject-matter in his painting. Together with
Josef Danhauser and Matthias Ranftl (1805-54), Eybl was among the most significant
followers of Krafft’s ideas, also becoming one of the principal Viennese painters
of the Biedermeier period.
The child in the works of Eybl:
Franz Eybl, Lesendes Mädchen, 1850, oil on canvas,
53 x 41 cm