Markus Pernhart, Markus Or Marko Pernat Or Pernath

Place: Untermieger (Or Obermieger)

Born: 1824

Death: 1871

Biography:

Marko Pernhart was a Carinthian Slovenian / Austrian painter of romantic landscape impressions, considered to have been a pioneer in this style in Austria. According to the Slovenian Biographical Lexicon, he is considered to be the first Slovenian realistic landscape painter. He was born on July 28, 1824, in Untermieger (or Obermieger), and died on March 30, 1871, in Klagenfurt. Pernhart came from Austrian Carinthia and was predominantly a chronicler of the Alpine region. His image of Bled, framed in such a way as to include three aspects of an ideal pastoral civilisation (nature, religion and a romantic little castle), must be placed alongside his other scenes of lakes, castles and churches: his sketches and oil paintings of the Wörthersee (Maria Wörth and Maria Loretto), for example, show the lake and the peninsula with its church, and sometimes also the ruins of Schloss Leonstain, while in his images of the Traunsee (around fifty kilometres from Salzburg), a church called the Traunkirche stands on a steep cliff above the lake.