Schindler, Albert#
b. Andělská Hora, Czech Republic (then Engelsberg), Aug. 19, 1805, d. Vienna, May 3, 1861. Genre painter and portraitist. Studied at the Vienna Academy promoted by P. Fendi, of whom he was a private student and whom he succeeded as an artist and copper engraver at the Imperial Mint and Antiques Office (k. k. Muenz- und Antikenkabinett). Painted simple scenes from the lives of ordinary people and from the everyday life of soldiers; representative of the Vienna school of genre painters.
Literature#
Oe. Malerei des 19. Jh. aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue Innsbruck 1970; G. Frodl and K. A. Schroeder (eds.), Wr. Biedermeier - Malerei zw. Wr. Kongress und Revolution, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1993.