Felix Esterl

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“Self-Portrait with a Cigarette”, around 1922

Felix Esterl (born June 22, 1894 in Klagenfurt ; † June 13, 1931 there ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Felix Esterl was born in 1894 in the Carinthian capital of Klagenfurt. His mother Marie Esterl, née Lackner, died when he was ten years old. His father Georg Esterl was a wealthy state official.

In 1912 he began studying engineering and then architecture at the ETH Zurich , but broke off his studies, visited Paris and Berlin and began painting as an autodidact . He was friends with the Carinthian painters Herbert Boeckl , Willibald Zunk and Adolf Christl, among others .

After the death of his father, Esterl inherited several properties, including a villa in Klagenfurt, which he moved into in 1925 with his wife Klothilde Esterl, née Ilming, and his son Martin.

In 1931 the artist died of a ruptured appendix at the age of 36 . Works by the artist can be found in auction shops.

In terms of art history, Felix Esterl belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .

Works

About 100 paintings and drawings by Felix Esterl have survived, mainly self-portraits , landscape paintings , female nudes and still lifes . His childhood friend Herbert Boeckl organized the first major exhibition of his works after Esterl's death in 1931.

  • Drawing on a letter , date unknown

  • Landscape with Pastures and Houses , around 1925

  • Still life with delphinium and fruits , around 1927

  • Standing nude , around 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Erwin Hirtenfelder: A master of differentiation. In: www.kleinezeitung.at . September 13, 2008, accessed January 12, 2010 .
  2. ↑ website of artnet.com
  3. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 366

literature

  • Ilse Spielvogel-Bodo: Felix Esterl 1894–1931. On the aesthetics of the brushstroke. With a catalog raisonné. Art and Artists in Carinthia, Vol. 2. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt, 2008. ISBN 978-3-7084-0219-2 .
  • Monika Pessler (Ed.): Felix Esterl. Carinthian State Gallery, 1994.
  • Rainer Zimmerman: The art of the lost generation: German painting of expressive realism from 1925–1975. Econ, 1980, ISBN 3-430-19961-1 , p. 351.
  • Karl Newole: Felix Esterl. History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt, 1975. ISBN 978-3-85454-064-9 .

Web links

Commons : Felix Esterl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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personal data
SURNAME Esterl, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1931
Place of death Klagenfurt