Eugen Jettel
| Eugen Jettel | |
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Portrait by Raimund Wichera
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| Born |
Richard Alfred Eugen Jettel 20 March 1845 Johnsdorf, Moravia |
| Died | Lussingrande |
| Resting place | Trieste |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna |
| Occupation | painter |
| Style | impressionism, Art Nouveau |
| Awards | Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur |
Richard Alfred Eugen Jettel (20 March 1845, Johnsdorf, Moravia – 27 August 1901, Lussingrande) was an Austrian painter, producing mainly landscapes. He studied at the Vienna Academy and moved to Paris in 1873, before moving back to Vienna in 1897 and serving as a co-founder of the Vienna Secession. He was made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1898.
Jettel was the son of Sophie and Ladislaus Hugo Jettel, an ironworks-administrator. After his mother's death, the family moved to Vienna. His father died before he was 15.
In 1860, Jettel entered the class of Albert Zimmermann in the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he met Emil Jakob Schindler, Robert Russ and Rudolf Ribarz; there, he studied landscape painting and stayed until 1869. Study tours took him to France, the Netherlands, Istria and Hungary. In 1868 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, and would exhibit several times there. While in Vienna, he came under August von Pettenkofen's influence. In 1872-73 he travelled around Italy with Leopold Carl Müller.
Jettel moved to Paris in 1873 to take up a well-paying job for the Austrian art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, and led a successful artistic life there. Sedelmeyer may have hoped that Jettel would marry his daughter. However, instead, he married Cäcilie Mailer, the daughter of the owner of a glovemaker from Vienna. Sedelmeyer reduced his salary, and the couple found themselves in financial distress.
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