Emil Jakob Schindler
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April 27, 1842 Vienna |
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August 9, 1892 (aged 50) Westerland |
Emil Jakob Schindler (April 27, 1842 – August 9, 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter.
He was born into a family of manufacturers (cotton spinning-mill) that had been established in the village Fischamend south of Vienna, Lower Austria since the 17th Century. On 24 May 1838 Schindler's father, Julius Jakob Schindler (1814–1846) married in Vienna the twenty-two years old Maria Anna Penz (1816–1885), and four years later she gave birth to their only surviving child, Emil Jakob. (It is not known if she in the preceding years had born any other children, but it is most likely). Father Schindler died of lung cancer when his son was four years old. His widow, Maria Anna soon afterwards moved to Pressburg (probably her hometown; today Bratislava) with her infant son. Three years later, on 10 February 1849, she married second lieutenant (later to be promoted captain), Mathias Eduard Nepalleck (1815–1873), who since 1847 had served in the local Hungarian Infantry Regiment. The relationship between widow Schindler and officer Nepalleck must have lasted for some time, for only a month after the wedding Maria Anna Nepalleck (33 years old), on 3 March, gave birth to a daughter, Alexandrine Nepalleck (1849–1932). This “last minute” wedding, so it appears, was undoubtedly “forced” upon Nepalleck by his commanding officer in order to save the honour of his regiment.
Little, to be sure, nothing at all, is known about Emil Schindler's early life, and it can only be speculated as to his upbringing among soldiers and in a middle-class home. He probably began school in 1848, as was the rule in those days, and he also took piano lessons. He was supposed to pursue a career in the military; he did in fact join the army in 1857, and, according to family legend, took part in the battle of Solferino on 24 June 1859, which the Austrians lost. However, Schindler very soon after left the army, and in September 1860, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he for three years studied with Professor Albert Zimmermann. He found his models, however, in the Dutch Masters such as Meindert Hobbema and Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael. In 1873, he travelled to Venice, followed by his first trip to Dalmatia, sponsored by Baronet Friedrich Franz von Leitenberger (1837–1899), later trips to France and Holland followed.
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