RUDOLF KONOPA (Vienna 1864 - 1936 Scheibbs)
Paris
oil/cardboard, 23,5 x 18 cm

ESTIMATE € 500 - 1000
STARTING PRICE € 500

Rudolf Konopa was an Austrian artist. He created genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and interiors, influenced by impressionism, both in oil and watercolor. Konopa was initially apprenticed to an industrial painter at the age of fourteen and, from 1881, studied painting at the Vienna Academy with Rudolf Karl Huber and Joseph Matthias von Trenkwald, whose guest student he was until 1882. Study trips took Konopa to France, Italy and England. In Paris, he was in contact with Eugen Jettel and in Fiesole with Arnold Boecklin. From 1890 to 1900, Konopa was a member of the Vienna Kuenstlerhaus, from 1900 to 1907 he was a founding member of the Hagenbund; He then returned to the Vienna Kuenstlerhaus. In 1893 he took part in the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1900 in the World's Fair in Paris, and in 1904 in the World's Fair in St. Louis. In 1923 Konopa took part in a collective in the Vienna Kuenstlerhaus, which organized a memorial exhibition for him in 1938. During the First World War, Konopa was known in Russia and Italy as a war painter for the k.u.k. Kriegspressequartier (KPQ, Imperial and Royal War Press Office). His works are included in the Belvedere,the Albertina, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Museum der Stadt Wien/Wien Museum and in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. Honours, prizes (selection): 1894 Kenyon Travel Scholarship; 1893 Large Gold Medal at the Chicago World's Fair; 1899 Small Gold State Medal; 1900 Mention honorable, Paris; 1923 Karl Ludwig Promotion Prize.

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