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Rudolph Friedrich Miess
(21 August 1854,
Bra?ov
?29 May 1935, Bra?ov) was an
Imperial Austrian
-born painter from the
Transylvania
region, today part of
Romania
. Although he did numerous portraits, he is best known for his landscapes, which combine the
Academic
and
Impressionist
styles.
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He was born to a family of wealthy
Transylvanian Saxon
merchants, and pursued that trade until he was twenty-nine. At that time, his interest in art led him to enroll at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
, where he studied for two years, then transferred to the
Academy of Fine Arts
in Munich, where he studied with the history painter,
Johann Caspar Herterich
. While there, he was also influenced by the works of
Wilhelm Leibl
,
Max Liebermann
and
Fritz von Uhde
.
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From 1890 to 1891, he went to Italy, visiting Rome and Venice, where he copied the works of
Titian
. He returned to Italy two years later, living in
Cervara di Roma
and painting landscapes en
plein air
. He spent the years 1894 to 1896 in Rome, working in the studio of his fellow German-Romanian,
Robert Wellmann
[
ro
]
.
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Upon returning to Bra?ov, he opened his own studio, becoming one of the first to work as a freelance artist in that area. His workshop soon became a meeting place for the German-speaking artistic community. Those who worked with him there included
Hans Mattis-Teutsch
and
Margarete Depner
. In 1903, he served on a committee charged with overseeing the selection of painters to work on the restoration of
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu
. He exhibited throughout Romania, as well as in Berlin and Budapest, where he was awarded a gold medal at the National Exhibition in 1909. Many of his works were reproduced in
Die Karpathen
, a local German-language magazine.
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Selected paintings
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A Garland of Flowers
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Autumn
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Portrait of a Young Girl
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