Also attributed to Kupelwieser....
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| Portrait of a youth. (Frequently titled as "Franz Schubert at sixteen", though that identification seems unlikely.) |
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Leopold Kupelwieser (17 October 1796, Markt Piesting - 17 November 1862, Vienna), Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement. The son of a factory owner, his talents were recognized at an early age by the sculptor Franz Anton von Zauner and by the time he was twelve, was already attending the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. During a stay in Rome in 1824, he came under the influence of Friedrich Overbeck and the Nazarene movement. After his return to Vienna, he earned his living primarily as an illustrator and portrait painter, although he is also known to have painted shop signs as well. Along with his brother, the theatrical director Joseph Kupelwieser, he was one of the group of friends and aficionados of the music of Franz Schubert which frequently gathered at the so called "Schubertiades"; when he married in 1826, the occasion was marked by Schubert's composition, the "Kupelwieser Waltz." In 1837, he became Professor of history painting at the Academy and, in 1850, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph. Virtually all of his later work involved religious altarpieces and frescoes. At the age of sixty he fell ill, apparently due to the rigors of fresco work. He never recovered his health and died six years later.
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