# Ferdinand Brunner

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Not to be confused with [Fernand Brunner](/source/Fernand_Brunner).

**Ferdinand Brunner** (1 May 1870 – 30 November 1945) was an Austrian landscape painter.

## Life and work

Brunner was born on 1 May 1870 in [Vienna](/source/Vienna). At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to the court theatre painters, [Carlo Brioschi](/source/Carlo_Brioschi), [Hermann Burghart](/source/Hermann_Burghart) and [Johann Kautsky](/source/Johann_Kautsky). After 1891, he studied at the [Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna](/source/Academy_of_Fine_Arts,_Vienna), in the master class of [Eduard von Lichtenfels](/source/Eduard_von_Lichtenfels). He was awarded the Academy's [Gundel-Prize](/source/Gundel-Prize) for excellence in 1894 and became a member of the [Vienna Künstlerhaus](/source/Vienna_K%C3%BCnstlerhaus) in 1901.

His major exhibitions include the International Art and Horticulture Exhibition (1904) and the German National Art Exhibition (1907), both in [Düsseldorf](/source/D%C3%BCsseldorf), as well as several showings at the [Glaspalast](/source/Glaspalast_(Munich)) in Munich. In 1910, he received the Großen Goldenen Staatsmedaille. He died on 30 November 1945 in Vienna.

Rural scenes in [Lower Austria](/source/Lower_Austria), [Bohemia](/source/Bohemia) and Hungary were his favorite motifs. His works may be seen at the [Vienna Museum](/source/Vienna_Museum), the [Lower Austria Museum](/source/Lower_Austria_Museum), and in the gallery at the Vienna Academy.

## Sources

- "Brunner, Ferdinand". In: *[Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon](/source/Allgemeines_K%C3%BCnstlerlexikon). Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker* (AKL). Vol. 14, Saur, 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X, p. 564
- Heinrich Fuchs: *Ferdinand Brunner. Malerischer Entdecker des Waldviertels*, Vienna 1979
- Heinrich Fuchs: *Die österreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts*, Band 1 (A–F), Vienna 1972
- Rupert Feuchtmüller: *Ferdinand Brunner. Katalog anlässlich der Gedächtnisausstellung zur 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages im Niederösterreichischen Landesmuseum*, Vienna 1970

## External links

- [More works by Brunner](http://www.artnet.com/artists/ferdinand-brunner/) @ ArtNet

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