Gustav Igler
1842 Ödenburg – 1938 Munich
Short information about the artist
Gustav Igler was an Austrian painter and etcher.
More information about the artist
Gustav Igler was an Austrian painter and etcher.
Biography
Gustav Igler was born in Austro-Hungarian Odenburg and from 1858 he was a pupil of the famous portraitist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in Vienna. He then studied with Arthur von Ramberg until 1871 at the Royal Academy in Munich. In 1888 he was appointed to head the Technical Painting Class at the Art Academy in Stuttgart. In 1896 he directed the second International Painting Exhibition in Stuttgart. In 1913 he retired and returned to Munich.
Painting
Gustav Igler’s painting is almost ideally a unity of brilliant painting technique and witty composition. This rare combination predestined the painter for the sophisticated tastes of English and American collectors, who acquired more than half of all works by Igler immediately after their creation.
Publications
As a result, the German art public was often left with nothing more than a view of the reproductions of Igler’s paintings in the magazines (Gartenlaube, Daheim …), which today are still our only source for a reconstruction of his entire oeuvre.