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Details of object number: 0080 c
Title:Herbst
Object name:litograph
Schautafel
Schautafel
Created by:Ed. Hölzel (Verleger) (Prag, 1817-10-08 - Salzburg, 1885-12-21)
Production date:1890 — 1910
Production period:Jahrhundertwende 19./20. Jahrhundert
Description:The school wall painting “Autumn” is part of a four-part series depicting the four seasons. There are semicircular wooden rods affixed to the longer edges of the image, with two eyelets attached to the upper rod. The naturalistic, genre-like, idyllic representation shows scenes from the autumn harvest. On the left, grapes are being harvested; in the centre is a hunter, coming along the path with his helper and hunting dogs, having caught a hare as prey; a lady sitting with her child on the grass looks on with interest. Three children are depicted playing in the right foreground, while behind them apples are being picked and grain is being threshed in an open barn; finally, the fields are being worked before the lake in the background.
The painting is signed “M. & S. Görlich” in the bottom left-hand corner. The signature is of the two Czech artists Marie and Sophie Görlich (Brno 1851-1896 and 1856-1893 respectively). The picture maker is given in the lower right corner: “Lith. u. Druck v. Ed. Hölzels Kunst-Anstalt in Wien”. An adhesive label with the inscription “A. Pichlers Witwe und Sohn Wien”, with a handwritten addition, “Hölzel Herbst”, is affixed to the upper edge of the reverse side.
The painting is signed “M. & S. Görlich” in the bottom left-hand corner. The signature is of the two Czech artists Marie and Sophie Görlich (Brno 1851-1896 and 1856-1893 respectively). The picture maker is given in the lower right corner: “Lith. u. Druck v. Ed. Hölzels Kunst-Anstalt in Wien”. An adhesive label with the inscription “A. Pichlers Witwe und Sohn Wien”, with a handwritten addition, “Hölzel Herbst”, is affixed to the upper edge of the reverse side.
Hist. crit. notes:Wall paintings in schools were the forerunners of the projectors used today for presenting images. They were used, particularly in primary schools, to illustrate learning content from the second half of the 19th century on. They were mostly designed by lesser-known artists under the guidance of teachers, and owed their widespread distribution to the invention of lithography, the oldest printing technique for colour prints.
The Prague-born bookseller and publisher Eduard Hölzel had already opened a book and music store in 1844 in the Moravian town of Olmütz (today Olomouc). In 1861 he acquired a lithographic shop in Vienna where he set up the Ed. Hölzel publishing house, which became especially well known for its geographical atlases, but also produced entire series of school wall paintings in large quantities for schools in all parts of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
The period from 1880 to 1920 is regarded as the heyday of such paintings, which formed an important part of the curriculum as teaching and visualisation aids. From today’s perspective, the content of the images offers interesting insights into the teaching methods and objectives of the time, as well as reflecting the prevailing zeitgeist and frequently shedding significant light onto the era’s values and political attitudes.
The school wall paintings from the Museum of Everyday Culture in Neumarkt/Egna came to light in 1970 during the conversion of the former primary school known as the “Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Schule” in the Fleimstalstrasse.
Source:
Walter Müller, Reinhard Stach, Schulwandbilder als Spiegel des Zeitgeistes zwischen 1880 und 1980 (Opladen 1988).
The Prague-born bookseller and publisher Eduard Hölzel had already opened a book and music store in 1844 in the Moravian town of Olmütz (today Olomouc). In 1861 he acquired a lithographic shop in Vienna where he set up the Ed. Hölzel publishing house, which became especially well known for its geographical atlases, but also produced entire series of school wall paintings in large quantities for schools in all parts of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
The period from 1880 to 1920 is regarded as the heyday of such paintings, which formed an important part of the curriculum as teaching and visualisation aids. From today’s perspective, the content of the images offers interesting insights into the teaching methods and objectives of the time, as well as reflecting the prevailing zeitgeist and frequently shedding significant light onto the era’s values and political attitudes.
The school wall paintings from the Museum of Everyday Culture in Neumarkt/Egna came to light in 1970 during the conversion of the former primary school known as the “Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Schule” in the Fleimstalstrasse.
Source:
Walter Müller, Reinhard Stach, Schulwandbilder als Spiegel des Zeitgeistes zwischen 1880 und 1980 (Opladen 1988).
Technique:gedruckt (Lithografie)
Dimensions:
- height: 84
width: 136
Physical description:Farblithographie auf Papier, auf Lwd aufgezogen
Institution:Museum of Popular Culture
Inscription:Position: 80c: links unten
Method: signiert
Content: M. & S. Görlich
Language: Deutsch
Type: sign of the artist
Method: signiert
Content: M. & S. Görlich
Language: Deutsch
Type: sign of the artist
Parent object:0080