Ferdinand Krumbholz

Place: Hof In Mähren

Born: 1810

Death: 1878

Biography:

Ferdinand Krumholz, also known as Ferdinand Krumbholz, was an Austrian painter born in Hof in Mähren (now the Czech Republic) in 1810 and died in Bern, Switzerland in 1878. He was a portrait, genre, and landscape painter. Krumholz was a student and nephew of the painter Stanislaus Michael Krumholz. He studied at the Kunstakademie Wien in Vienna, Austria, under the guidance of Josef Redl, Johann Ender, and Johann Nepomuk Schaller. In 1829, he became a drawing teacher for the Graf Czernin family in Triest, Italy. He then studied at the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia in Venice, Italy, and traveled to Rome and Naples. In 1832, he returned to Bohemia to continue his studies at the Kunstakademie Paris in Paris, France. He was represented in the Paris Salon from 1834 to 1845 and received a gold medal at the Louvre in 1841. He became a popular and well-known portrait painter in European courts during the Vormärz period. From 1844 to 1847, he worked in Lisbon, Portugal, and Andalusia, Spain, during the summer. In 1848, he traveled from Triest to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he was appointed court painter and painted portraits of Emperor Pedro II and Empress Teresa Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily. He exhibited four times at the Exposição Geral de Belas Artes of the Brazilian Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA) and became an honorary member in 1849. He was awarded the Brazilian Order of the Rose, Cavaleiro, in the same year. His works from this period are part of the Romantic movement and can be found in various collections, including those of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, and the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.