{"id":18771,"date":"2019-09-14T05:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T04:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=18771"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:50:12","slug":"mildorfer-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/mildorfer-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mildorfer exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mildorfersmall.jpg\" alt=\"Entrance to Upper Belvedere\" class=\"wp-image-18775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mildorfersmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mildorfersmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>What do most of us get for our 300th birthday? Not a lot. But that&#8217;s because we never left a colourful legacy in oil and canvas. Unlike Josef Ignaz Mildorfer (1719-1775), the subject of an exhibition at Upper Belvedere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explores Mildorfer&#8217;s work as &#8220;war artist&#8221;, baroque academic influencer, and painter for hire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Just needs a normal entrance ticket for Upper Belvedere<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Sep 19, 2019 &#8211; Jan 6, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/belvedere\/\">Belvedere tickets &amp; visitor info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Current &amp; future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">art exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;The baroque rebel&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This first solo Mildorfer exhibition honours the 300th anniversary of his 1719 birth in Innsbruck. (Hopefully he&#8217;s sitting in some celestial studio giving himself a pat on the back). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by Maike Hohn and in cooperation with the Wiener Zeitung, the exhibition devotes a room each to three particular aspects of his life and output, with works drawn from throughout central and eastern Europe&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Mildorfer as battle artist<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mildorferexhibition.jpg\" alt=\"Mildorfer battle scene\" class=\"wp-image-18814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mildorferexhibition.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mildorferexhibition-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Die Schlacht von Sch\u00e4rding, um 1742, \u00d6l auf Leinwand, Salzburg Museum (Sammlung Rossacher) \u00a9 Salzburg Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beginning of Mildorfer&#8217;s career as an artist coincided with the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), which came about when Maria Theresa began her reign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various powers used the absence of a Y chromosome in the new monarch&#8217;s genes as an excuse to try and take chunks out of the Habsburg territories. It was a little more complex than that, but the subsequent battles gave Mildorfer suitable themes to work on. Examples include his 1742 paintings, the <em>Battle of Sch\u00e4rding<\/em> and <em>The Munich Surrender<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Mildorfer as student and academic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mildorfer eventually rose to become a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts (which still exists today) during the 1750s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His influence on the development of the Viennese academy style is, perhaps, his greatest legacy; the likes of Franz Anton Maulbertsch or Johann Bergl (whose wall frescoes can still be seen in Sch\u00f6nbrunn&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/schonbrunn\/childrensmuseum\/\">Children&#8217;s Museum<\/a>) sat in his classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this room you can see, for example, Mildorfer&#8217;s 1742 <em>Cain and Abel<\/em>, which won the gold medal at an academy painting competition and gave a generous boost to his career. Incidentally, Maulbertsch&#8217;s 1750 gold-winning painting, <em>The Academy with its Attributes at Minervas Feet<\/em>, hangs next to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Mildorfer as painter for hire<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if the work dried up towards the end of his life, Mildorfer won commissions from numerous sources, including the imperial family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, his frescoes still grace the ceiling in the Kaiserpavilion at the centre of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/palace-of-schonbrunn\/vienna-zoo\/\">Sch\u00f6nbrunn zoo<\/a> in the grounds of Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace. You can see his preliminary sketches for those frescoes and also for the ceiling frescoes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/kapuzinergruft\/\">crypt<\/a> where Empress Maria Theresa is buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mildorfer exhibition began on Thursday, September 19th, 2019 and finishes on Monday, January 6th, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see the exhibition, you need a normal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/upper-belvedere-palace\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3521\">entrance ticket<\/a> for Upper Belvedere. The same palace also has an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/upper-belvedere-palace\/\">permanent exhibition<\/a> covering various eras in Austrian and European painting. You might just have heard of one of the works: Klimt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/kiss\/\">The Kiss<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the Mildorfer exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Just follow these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gettingthere3\/\">directions<\/a> for Upper Belvedere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Prinz Eugen-Stra\u00dfe 27, 1030 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ksawXWFMVD9bljA48Gi7_VvWSfI\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do most of us get for our 300th birthday? Not a lot. But that&#8217;s because we never left a colourful legacy in oil and canvas. 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