Hermann Kern

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Il frate in cucina, 1880 (Fondazione Cariplo)

Hermann Armin von Kern (born in Liptoujvar, former Hungary, now Hradok, Slovenia, 14.3.1838 – died in Maria Enzersdorf, Austria, 18.1.1912) was an academic Austrian painter (painter who has a diploma from an art academy).

Biography

He was the son of a doctor of medicine who recognized his exceptional talent at an early age and paid for his education. At the age of 16 he studied first in Leutschau (Th. Böhm), 1854 in Prague (J.B. Klemens) and then in Vienna at the famous Academy of Arts (C. Rahl). 1867 he studied in Düsseldorf, 1870 Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (K. v. Piloty, A.v. Wagner and F. v. Defregger.) First he was occupied as a portrait and genre painter in Budapest and in 1877 he moved to Vienna, Austria and lived there with his big family (10 children) till his death (1912).
Kern spezialiced on portraits and genre scenes. As subject found Kern especially playing children, music making gypsies, taverne scenes and single persons in genre scenes. Hermann Kern, sponsored by emperor Franz Joseph I., was one of the most popular Austrian genre painters of his time. Some of his paintings were bought by the Habsburg court.
His daughter Pauline von Kern, also academic painter (1878–1939) painted mainly portraits and landscapes.

Works (selection)

• Die Politiker von Laab, 1881
• Deckengemälde, Theater Szegedin, 1885
• Hochwürden zu Gast, 1896

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  Hermann Armin Kern Selfportrait