# Joseph Petzl

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{{short description|German painter (1803–1871)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Joseph Petzl
| image=Josef Petzl - Zeichnung von Carl Andreas August Goos.jpg
| caption=Joseph Petzl 1831, drawing by [C. Goos](/source/Carl_Andreas_August_Goos)
| birth_date = 23 December 1803
| birth_place = Munich
| death_date = 23 April 1871
| death_place = Munich
| nationality = 
| known_for = Genre painting<br />Biedermeier
| movement = Biedermeier
| notable_works =
| education = Robert Langer at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
}}

'''Joseph Petzl''' (23 December 1803 – 23 April 1871) was a German [genre painter](/source/genre_painting) of the [Biedermeier](/source/Biedermeier) school. He has left a collection of drawings documenting his everyday life, love affairs and travels, now in the Münchner Stadtmuseum.

==Life==
He was born in [Munich](/source/Munich). From May 1821 he studied at the [Academy of Fine Arts, Munich](/source/Academy_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Munich) under Robert Langer. In 1828 he left the academy and began to travel widely, initially going to the "Dürerfest" celebrating [Albrecht Dürer](/source/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer) in [Nuremberg](/source/Nuremberg). He stayed a year in [Berlin](/source/Berlin), studying under [Carl Begas](/source/Carl_Begas), then from November 1829 lived in [Dresden](/source/Dresden), where he became friends with the Norwegian landscape painter [Thomas Fearnley](/source/Thomas_Fearnley) and the Danish-German genre painter [Friedrich Bernhard Westphal](/source/Friedrich_Bernhard_Westphal). In November 1830 he and Westphal travelled to the latter's birthplace of [Schleswig](/source/Schleswig_(city)), and in July the following year Petzl travelled to [Copenhagen](/source/Copenhagen). He called at [Kiel](/source/Kiel), Schleswig again and [Düsseldorf](/source/D%C3%BCsseldorf), finally arriving back in Munich in September 1831. There he renewed his friendship with Fearnley, who had arrived in Munich a year earlier.

In September 1832 Petzl, Fearnley and the Danish genre painter [Vilhelm Bendz](/source/Vilhelm_Bendz) set off for Rome. The journey over the Alps was so exhausting that Bendz died in [Vicenza](/source/Vicenza), but Petzl and Fearnley reached Rome in November 1832. Petzl only stayed there briefly and joined [Peter von Hess](/source/Peter_von_Hess) and a group of other [Bavaria](/source/Bavaria)n painters on a trip to Naples and Greece, reaching [Naples](/source/Naples) on 30 January 1833, in time to witness celebrations for the arrival of king [Otto of Greece](/source/Otto_of_Greece). There he taught drawing to the daughters of Otto's minister [Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg](/source/Josef_Ludwig_von_Armansperg) before travelling in 1834 to [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul). In November 1834 Petzl returned to Munich and shifted from his earlier scenes of Alpine and Tyrolese bandits, hunters, freedom fighters and peasant weddings to similar folkloric paintings of scenes in the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire). He died on 23 April 1871 in Munich.

== Selected works ==
* ''An Auction'', 1832. 61 x 77&nbsp;cm. Gemäldegalerie Thurn und Taxis, Regensburg
* ''A Greek Wedding'', 1835. 66 x 84&nbsp;cm. Münchner Stadtmuseum

== Bibliography (in German)==
* Ulrike Staudinger: "Die "Bildergalerie" Maximilian Karls von Thorn und Taxis, Verlag Michael Lassleben Kallmütz, 1990.
* Hans Ottomeyer (ed.): Biedermeiers Glück und Ende. Hugendubel München 1987.
* Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Gezeichnete Tagebücher zur Zeit des Biedermeier – Fritz Westphal und Joseph Petzl. Verlag Boyens & Co., Heide 1993.
* {{cite ADB|25|545|547|Petzl, Joseph|[Hyacinth Holland](/source/Hyacinth_Holland)|ADB:Petzl, Joseph}}
*[https://stadtmuseum.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/pnd/118863037 Portraits of Petzl at the Bayerische Stadtmuseum]

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