Ludwig H. Jungnickel “Coastel landscape near Abbazia” 1930s
“Coastal landscape near Abbazia”, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (1881-1965), late 1930s, oil on canvas, signed
signed bottom right: “L.H.JUNGNICKEL.”
Description
Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel was an Austrian painter and illustrator, who was mostly known for his Adriatic costal scenes and animal depictions. He attended the Munich School of Arts and Crafts and afterwards entered the monastry of Tanzenberg at Klagenfurt, in order to become a fresco painter. He never finished this prestigious education and went to Vienna instead. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts where his talents were discovered by the members of the Wiener Werkstätte. He designed several items for this famous manufacture and exhibited his paintings at the Wiener Secession. One of his most important works was the frieze in the child bedroom of the world-famous Palais Stoclet in Brussels.
During his career, he was awarded several gold medals at international exhibitions and was a student at Bauhaus and a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus.
In the 1920s, he began visiting Opatija on a regular basis and the first costal scenes were created. Jungnickel spent his summers Opatija and in Villach, until the late 1930s. The annexation of Austria by the Nazis caused Jungnickel great anxiety and he decided to make Opatija his new home. He painted and lived there until 1952, when he returned to Austria.
According to Peter Weber, a living relative of Jungnickel and the administrator of the estate, and Ilse Spielvogel-Bodo, author of his catalogue raisonné, this painting is the most important piece of art that Jungnickel created during his time in Opatija. The stroke is masterful, the scene is very emotional and the lighting on the stormy waves is exceptionally well done. Despite the agitated rolling of the waves, the whole atmosphere of the painting radiates calmness, peace and beauty.
Artist
The German-Austrian painter Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (Wunsiedel 1881 – 1965 Vienna) already impressed as a young man with his extraordinary talent and initially pursued the career of a church painter. Soon, however, he left the Carinthian monastery, where he had begun his apprenticeship, and continued his training at the Munich and Vienna art academies. Later, he worked for the Wiener Werkstätte, for which he supplied several designs for various objects, primarily fabrics, carpets, and wallpapers. One of his most important assignments was to work on the decoration of the famous Palais Stoclet in Brussels. The most important Austrian artists of the time around 1900 worked on this iconic building, including Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and Michael Powolny. Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel designed a surrounding wall frieze for the children’s room of the Palais. Jungnickel attained his artistic breakthrough with his so-called stencil spraying techniques. At the international art exhibitions in Amsterdam and Rome in 1911, he received his first awards. From 1924 onwards, Jungnickel was also a member of the “Künstlerhaus”. Today, Jungnickel is best known for his graphic work and his landscape and animal depictions. Like no other Jugendstil painter, he succeeded in capturing the soul and character of the animals he depicted and conveying it to the viewer.
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