Hugo Emil Eisenmenger

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• Naturalized US Citizen: 13 Jan 1922

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Died:
NY Times Obituary 8/29/1950

HUGO E. EISENMENGER, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Hugo E. Eisenmenger of 2400 Morgan Avenue, the Bronx, retired electrical engineer who was a rate expert with the Consolidated Edison Company of this city for many years until his retirement, died yesterday in Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, N. Y., where he had been a patient since Aug. 10. He was born in Vienna seventy-four years ago.

Educated in Austria and Germany. Mr. Eisenmenger did his first important work for the North German Lloyd Steamship Line as an operator of marine engines from 1898 to 1906.

From 1907 to 1909 he was, in Khartoum, building an electrical plant for the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The next ten years he spent in Tokyo, as a representative of a German electrical firm

Then he came to the United States, and for two years was the assistant to the chief of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company at Nela Park, Cleveland, and while in this post traveled extensively throughout the world. He joined Consolidated Edison in 1921.

Mr. Eisenmenger wrote "Central Station Rates in Theory and Practice" and many articles in technical journals.

He leaves his second wife, who was Lydia Alber of Mount Vernon, N. Y., at their marriage in 1940; two daughters of his first marriage, Mrs. Hertha E. Flack and Mrs. Greta Neelsen, and four grandchildren.

Hugo married Charlotte Sonya Escherich on 5 Aug 1913 in Vienna AT, and was divorced in Aug 1936 in Reno NV. Charlotte (daughter of Prof. Theodor Escherich and Margarethe Pfaundler) was born on 22 Jan 1895 in Graz AT; died on 4 Jul 1984 in Oetz, Tyrol AT; was buried on 7 Jul 1984 in Oetz, Tyrol AT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1915 version of tree has marriage date as 21 Jun 1913

1. Hertha Emma Eisenmenger was born on 10 Oct 1916 in Cleveland OH; died on 23 Mar 2019 in Tryon Estates, Columbus NC; was cremated on 28 Mar 2019 in Tryon NC Holy Cross Episcopal Church.
2. Margaretha Hedwig Eisenmenger was born on 13 Nov 1918 in Cleveland, OH; died on 8 Apr 2005 in Santa Cruz, CA.

Hugo married Lydia Alber in 1940. Lydia was born in 1907 in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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AUGUST EISENMENGER
(translated by Ernst Weber)

History painter, born February 11, 1820 in Vienna, died there on December 6, 1907. At the age of 15, he enrolled in the Akademie (Viennese Academy of Painting) but interrupted his studies in 1848 to join Karl Rahl and his atelier, who was in bitter competition with Carl von Blaas, who had received the order for the frescoes at the Vienna Arsenal in 1859. In his fight against Blaas, Rahl's other students Griepenkerl, Bitterlich, Lotz, Gaul, Fblix joined with Eisenmenger. On the other hand, the close friendship of Rahi with Theodor von Hansen was very fortunate because Hansen was very fortunate because Hansen directed many large commissions for monuments after Rahl's death to his students. Eisenmenger who was valued as the best student of Rala and who also was unquestioned master of wax mold painting, received the most important commissions. The first assignment was the decoration of the front entrance of the "Heinrichshof" with allegories and festoons using the last named technique; these paintings have been preserved rather well. In 1890 followed the ceiling frescoes (Apollo and the 9 Muses) in the large hall of the Musikverein, and then in the newly built City Hall of Vienna a depiction of the expansion of the city (beyond the raised city walls) and the apotheosis of "Austria". 1872 to 1874 followed the 12 frieze medallions in the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, as well as the frieze "The Taming of Nature's Power by the Graces" in the Court staircase of the Court Theater (State Theater). Very remarkable are his ceiling frescoes in the Palais Gutmann (child presentations of the twelve months), the frescoes (The Graces and Peace) in the staircase of The Palais Tietz on the Schottenring, paintings from the life of Maximilian I and Leopold von Babenberg for the Chateau Hornstein of Archduke Leopold. 1878 he achieved his greatest success with the Aesop curtain for the theater in Augsburg, on which be memorialized his teacher Rahi in a Portrait.

1881 he created the "Triumph of Justice" a large cyclic frieze for the Palace of Justice; the "Development of the Modern Government" in the Parliament and as the last large commission a series of 50 medallions in the "Antique" halls of the Museum of Art History. Eisenmenger had also been successfully active as portraitist (portrait of Johann Strauss in the Museum of History of the city Vienna, and of Minister Duke Leo Thun, portrait in the possession of the Austrian Ministry for Education). For the Church of the Scots (Schottenkirche) he painted two altar portraits (Saint Benedict and Saint Gregor). He also created the design of Austrian banc note of 1 Gulden. Since 1872 be had been Professor of the Vienna Academy and director of a Master class of History painters and had a number of excellent students, all outstanding in the use of color. In 1901 he retired. He has been the last representative of that exceptional era who under Hansen, Ferstel, Schmidt, Rahl, Makart have created the new Vienna.


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A well-know artist that painted the frieze in the Austria Parliament Building in Vienna

August married Emma Singer. Emma was born in 1841; died in 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emma Singer von Wyszogurska