Anton Ebert (1845 - 1896) Click for Artist Information

Anton Ebert

ANTON EBERT (1845 - 1896) 

Anton Ebert is a Czech 19th-century painter born in 1845. Ebert, who was educated at the Prague Academy and then in Vienna, worked with the romantic painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793-1865). Like Waldmüller, Ebert tended to paint genre scenes and Orientalist beauties, as well as portraits that provided a basic income. Ebert painted portraits of royalty, aristocracy, and high society figures. Among them was American-born soprano singer Minnie Hauck. He also painted a portrait of Sissi-Elizabeth of Wittlesbach, the young wife of Emperor Franz Josef I and one of the governors of Mainz, Prince Windisch-Graetz, whose portrait is now in the Mainz Art Gallery. In addition, Ebert also painted a number of self-portraits, including an 1892 self-portrait that the Kaiser gave to his collection and is now in the Vienna Museum.

Many of Ebert's genre scenes, especially those of young children, are drawn from memories of his own childhood in Kladrau Castle and contemporary scenes of the Windisch-Graetz family growing up. In the second half of his life, Ebert painted a number of landscape paintings, predominantly showing scenes around Vienna, where he was living at the time. It was exhibited at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna and other venues between 1868 and 1888. In addition to the museums mentioned above, Ebert's works are housed in the Roumianzeff Museum in Moscow and the National Museum in Stettin.