Hubert Sattler (painter)

Hubert Sattler was born in Salzburg. His father, Johann Michael Sattler (1787-1847), was a landscape painter who created the Sattler Panorama of Salzburg in 1825–29. His mother was Anna Maria Kittenberger, foster daughter of the painter Hubert Maurer. As a boy, Sattler traveled with his father and first learned drawing and painting from him, then entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the age of twelve. Following in his father's footsteps, he became a landscape painter and specialized in researching and painting large canvases for display in cosmoramas. Cosmoramas were exhibitions of perspective paintings of various places, often world landmarks; careful use of illumination and lenses gave the images greater realism. Sattler's cosmorama works, characterized by a high degree of detail, were sometimes displayed under lights in a dark room to paying customers looking through an aperture and often a magnifying lens. On her 1842 journey to the Near East, Ida Pfeiffer of Vienna met him and traveled with him for a while; in her published diary, she recorded how he was stoned by local people while sketching in Damascus. He exhibited his cosmorama works in many countries, sometimes traveling with a specially-made portable building. These exhibitions were highly lucrative and also achieved critical success; Sattler was widely praised for his artistry and for his scholarship. In Hanover in 1848, the provincial court awarded Sattler the title of Professor. ==Sattler in America==

While in Bremen to show his works, Sattler "met several Americans who urged him to take his exhibition to New York." When Sattler brought his cosmorama to Boston, views included "Lake Hallstadt in Austria, a sand storm in the Libyan Desert, Alexandria and a 'heavy storm on the Mediterranean.'" Patrons "enjoyed vicarious travel for twenty-five cents per adult, and only twelve and a half cents per child." Sixteen of the paintings Sattler brought to America were destroyed by a fire in Philadelphia in January, 1852. ==Landscapes==

In addition to the cosmorama works, Sattler also painted smaller, more traditional landscapes, sometimes signing then with his name or initials, or with a number of pseudonyms, including Louis Ritschard, E. Grossen, and Gottfried Stähly-Rychen. A favorite subject was the Tellskapelle (William Tell Chapel) on Lake Lucerne, which he painted numerous times, depicting it in various types of weather. ==Death and legacy==

His son, also named Hubert Sattler (1844-1928), became a notable ophthalmologist. In 1870, Sattler donated his father's Sattler Panorama of Salzburg to the city, along with more than 300 of his own works. The panorama is on permanent display in the inside the Salzburg Museum, together with a rotating exhibit drawn from over 130 Hubert Sattler cosmoramic paintings held by the museum. In later life, Sattler spent many years in Vienna, where he died. He was buried in Salzburg in an Ehrengrab ("grave of honor") together with his father. The Hubert-Sattler-Gasse in the Neustadt area of Salzburg was named in his honor. ==Gallery: Hubert Sattler paintings in the Salzburg Museum==

File:Hubert Sattler Wildbad Gastein um 1844.jpg|Bad Gastein, c. 1844 File:Hubert Sattler Mexico City 1854.jpg|Mexico City, 1854 File:Hubert Sattler New York 1854.jpg|New York, 1854 File:Hubert Sattler Paris.jpg|Paris, 1866 File:Hubert Sattler Grand Canyon.jpg|Grand Canyon, 1867 File:Hubert Sattler Cadiz 1867.jpg|Cadiz, 1867 File:Hubert Sattler Jerusalem.jpg|Jerusalem, 1869 File:Hubert Sattler Sarajevo.jpg|Sarajevo, 1893 File:Hubert Sattler Mekka 1897.jpg|Mecca, 1897 ==Gallery: Other landscapes and city views by Hubert Sattler==

File:Hubert Sattler - Das Redentore-Fest in Venedig (1876).jpg|Feast of the Redeemer in Venice, 1876 File:Hubert Sattler - Holzarbeit in den Hochalpen.jpg|Timbering High in the Alps File:Hubert Sattler - Wassermühle mit Bergblick.jpg|Watermill with a Mountain View File:Hubert Sattler - View of the Rock Church and Castle Ruins in Idar-Oberstein.jpg|Rock Church and Castle Ruins in Idar-Oberstein File:Hubert Sattler Tell-Kapelle am Vierwaldstättersee.jpg|Tellskapelle, Lake Lucerne (William Tell Chapel) ==References==