Eduard Veith – Útěk zimy
| Title in English | Eduard Veith – The Flight of Winter |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brno v minulosti a dnes. Příspěvky k dějinám a výstavbě Brna |
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| Keywords | Eduard Veith; Brno; Vienna; 19th century painting; symbolism; historism; Mährischer Kunstverein; Vereinigung deutschmährischer bildender Künstler; Künstler-Compagnie; Rudolf Eitelberger; Fellner and Helmer; Gustav Klimt; Ferdinand Laufberger |
| Description | The article analyses and puts into wider context the painting by Eduard Veith Winterflucht (The Flight of Winter), which can be found in the collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Eduard Veith was one of the graduates of zhe Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule) and, similarly to his more famous schoolmates the brothers Klimt and Franz Matsch, is a representative of the graduates of an educational institution which, under the direction of Rudolf Eitelberger, led its students to the ideas of Gesamtkunstwerk and to a more profound theoretical education. Veith is an example of an artist who created on the boundary of the declining Neo-Baroque Makart era and of the rising symbolism. Veith belongs among the artists who chose the position of symbolism as their painting style, which, despite its promising beginnings, turned out to be less vital than other symbolist movements from the long-term point of view of history of art. The article follows these phenomena via the painting Winterflucht and analyses this work of art on the basis of the structure of three planes of meaning: pictorial, allegoric, and symbolic. |