Leopold Munsch
Austrian painter of Alpine landscapes
Leopold Munsch was an Austrian landscape painter. Born the son of a hotelier, Munsch worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1853 to 1867. In the 1840s Munsch was a private student of drawing with L. Lonnstein. From 1849 he showed his works at art exhibitions. From 1863 to 1865 Munsch attended evening painting courses with Johann Nepomuk Geiger. He was influenced by the Viennese landscape painters Anton Hansc , Joseph Holzer and Remigius Adrianus Haanen . Munsch mainly painted motifs from the mountain landscapes of South Tyrol and the Salzkammergut. In 1886 he created two large-format murals on behalf of the Vienna Natural History Museum . Leopold Munsch left behind over 200 oil paintings and watercolors, over 2000 drawings and 30 sketchbooks, which were auctioned on December 10, 1888 at the auction house CJ Wawra.
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Master student
- Johann Nepomuk Geiger Master
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Artworks by this artist (21 total)
- Gämsen im Hochgebirge 1888
- Praterpartie
- Idylle im Deisener Hof
- Der Brand des Treumanntheaters am 9. Juni 1863 1863
- View from the Kahlenberg to the Leopoldsberg
- Blick auf Rattenberg am Inn
- Roe Deer at the Forest Pond
- Motiv aus Enzesfeld
- Marillenblüte
- Scene of the Wachau
- Sommerliche Landschaft mit Blick auf den Hallstätter See
- Landschaft in Niederösterreich
- A Steam Train, with Leopoldsberg and Kahlenberg in the Background 1884
- Hof in Spitz an der Donau
- Bucht in Abbazia
- Blühender Klostergarten
- Alte Häuser in Hallstadt 1848
- Group of mountain climbers beside
- Deisener Hof in Weissenkirchen
- Burg Taufers 1886