Draft:Josef Pögl

• Comment: not clear how they pass WP:NARTIST? Theroadislong (talk) 14:14, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: The YouTube clip (cited twice) is from an auction house, which is a primary source. The only other source is not enough on its own to establish notability, even if it is independent and reliable. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:03, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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Josef Poegl (Pögl) (1867-1956) was an Austrian artist from St. Peter bei Graz, Austria. He studied for two years at the Staatsgewerbeschule and the Landeskunstschule in Graz. Then trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Resided in Vienna from the beginning of his studies until his death in 1956, having survived the war through revenue from his paintings, drawings, and postcards. His works depict still lifes and interiors, with particuliar notoriety for his magnificent oil-on-wood renderings of interiors of the Hofburg, Schoenbruenn and Belvedere Palaces in Vienna, as well as portraits and genre scenes. Pögl was awarded the City of Vienna Prize and was a member of the Austrian Artists' Association His works are important for documenting in exacting detail important Austrian landmark interiors and artwork within those interiors that had been destroyed by fire or bombardments with some such as his 1915 painting of Empress Maria Theresia, with various Habsburg crowns on display in important collections such as that of the Belvedere Palace Imperial Collection, Vienna and in the Tyrolean State Museum “Ferdinandeum” as well as in international auctions such as that of Dorotheum, Kinsky and others One of his paintings recently auctioned through Dorotheum depicts a "Mirrored Hall" with a view over central Vienna seen through the windows. This 1926 painting is an important documentation of a room designed in the time of Prince Eugene of Savoy, within the "Oberes Belvedere" or Upper Belvedere Palace, a room with an ornate inlaid wooden floor which with the entire Rococo interior had been destroyed in a fire on March 31, 1950, that started in the “Gold Cabinet” in the north-eastern corner pavilion which had already been damaged by bombing during World War II The cultural historian Priester suggests that Josef Pögl was a descendant of a family involved in the design and construction of the palaces for Prince Eugene of Savoy that the artist would depict during his lifetime. The famed portrait of the Empress Maria Theresia drew the attention of the Austrian Parliament when during unauthorized transport, the work was slightly damaged during moving and the Austrian Gallery at the Belvedere legally sought compensation to repair the painting in the public museum.