Neder Johann Michael (1807 - 1882)

NEDER Johann Michael (1807 Vienna – 1882 Vienna) Genre and portrait painter, Neder was the son of a master shoemaker, and initially learned his father's trade. From 1821 until 1828 he was successful as a student at the Vienna Academy, received the Count Czernin Gold Medal in 1826, and worked as a freelance painter from 1829 onwards. 1830 saw his first exhibition at the Academy. Apart from a study trip to Salzburg and Berchtesgaden, and a three-month stay in Kremsmünster (1834), he remained in Vienna. He found thematic inspiration in 17th-century Dutch genre painting, which he copied in the Academy gallery. His rendering of life in the suburbs, his immediate surroundings, became very popular with the public. His realism – at first glance apparently naïve – was unique in its time, standing in stark contrast to his contemporaries' perception of reality.

Author: Oehring Erika

Literature: Translated catalogue text from (Translation: Gail Schamberger MA, Salzburg): Mayr-Oehring Erika (Hrsg.): Tischgesellschaften. Malerei des 16. - 20. Jahrhunderts. Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Salzburg 2003, S. 120, Abb. S. 121