August Eisenmenger

He was born in Vienna. At the age of fifteen, Eisenmenger was already a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and won first prize in drawing. In 1848, his financial circumstances forced him to leave the Academy. He didn't find a secure position until he became a student/employee at Carl Rahl's studio in 1856. In 1863, he started as a drawing teacher at the Protestant School in Vienna. He later became a professor at the Academy in 1872. He also established a private school where he taught Rahl's style of monumental painting. Rudolf Ernst was one of his best known pupils there. He died in Vienna in 1907. In 1913, a street in Vienna's Döbling district was named after him. Later, that street was removed for an industrial site and a new street was dedicated to him in the Favoriten district in 1959. One of Eisenmenger's sons, Victor Eisenmenger, was the personal physician to Archduke Franz Ferdinand. ==Major works ==

• Apollo and the Nine Muses, ceiling panels in the Vienna Musikverein. • The ceiling panels in the Grand Hotel. • The Twelve Months, an oil panel at the Palais Gutmann • Ancestral portraits and panels depicting episodes in the lives of Maximilian I and Leopold V; at Hernstein Castle. • The frieze medallions at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna • Frieze medallions in the meeting room of the Chamber of Deputies in the Austrian Parliament Building. ==Ceiling panels at the Musikverein==

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