“Carriage with horses” Alfredo Tominz (Trieste 1854 – 1936)

oil painting on canvas

Born in Trieste on 21 May 1854, died there on 22 December 1936. Son of Augusto. He was a student at the private school in Munich, directed by Emil Adam, assisted by his brother Franz, both of whom were particularly painters of horses and hunting scenes. Like them, he specialized in painting horses and equestrian scenes. He exhibited his first work, Roman Biga, in 1873. He then participated in the exhibitions in Vienna (1880), in the various exhibitions in Milan, Turin, Trieste and Padua in 1928. In 1900 in Vienna he was awarded a gold medal. But in general he exhibited little, instead always working on commission from private individuals. His main works are: Irruption of the Huns in the Friulian plain, in the Schenker Gallery, in Budapest; Four-in-one, formerly in the collection of Prince Kinski of Prague and currently in the TK collection of Milan; Return from the Montebello races, property Brunner of Trieste; Hungarian Cart (1899), in the Hamburg Museum; Circus Maximus (1914), sold to Vienna; Horse dealer in Friuli, owned by Rome (Romania). He also executed portraits of individual horses, various horse fairs, reproduced horses from the San Siro races (Milan); he created various paintings of horse subjects for art dealers in Vienna. He also executed a series of portraits of Trieste personalities. His works can be found in Trieste, in various cities in Italy and Austria, and many in America. From 1883 to 1925, succeeding his father, he was director of the Revoltella Museum in Trieste, in which there is a painting of him representing a working horse. During the First World War the artist was imprisoned and interned in Lower Austria because he belonged to the irredentist party.