Norbert von Stetten

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Norbert Freiherr von Stetten (born May 13, 1885 in Vienna , † December 28, 1979 in Bad Mergentheim ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

After years of study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he studied at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris and was friends with Maurice Utrillo , Maurice de Vlaminck and André Dunoyer de Segonzac . After this stay he took part as a painter in the Imperial German Research Expedition to Africa under Professor Leo Frobenius . His works from this period are now in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt / Main.

During the First World War he made portraits of various military commanders at the Austrian Imperial and Royal War Press Headquarters , which are now in Nuremberg and Vienna ( Army History Museum ). He took part in front-line excursions to the Italian and Albanian theater of war.

After the end of the war he studied as a master student with the painters Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin , where he mainly worked on portraits and landscapes until 1933 and made numerous study trips to East Prussia , Austria and Italy.

From 1933 he lived at the family residence at Schloss Stetten in Württemberg, from where he carried out annual work stays in Italy (Ischia, Amalfi, Lake Garda and South Tyrol), Spain (Mallorca, Costa del Sol) and southern France. Von Stetten became a member of the NSDAP .

He was married to the opera and lieder singer Emy Freifrau von Stetten , daughter of the Königsberg musician Max Brode . From this marriage two daughters, Ellida (* 1919) and Brigitte (* 1920) emerged. During the time of National Socialism , Emy von Stetten was banned from working as a " half-Jewish " despite her National Socialist attitude . In his second marriage he married Irma Sander, who accompanied him on his travels. He had been suffering from an eye disease since the late 1960s, but it did not prevent him from continuing to paint. He died on December 28, 1979 after a short illness in Bad Mergentheim at the age of 94.

Norbert von Stetten was represented at many national and international exhibitions, and many of his works are in private and public collections (including a portrait of the last Austrian emperor, Karl I , in the Budapest Army Museum ). His artistic estate is in the possession of his two granddaughters Eva and Brigitte. He is run by his older granddaughter Brigitte Pichon Kalau v. Hofe and her husband, the musician Dorian Rudnytsky .

Works (excerpt)

  • Anti-aircraft gun on the Dalmatian coast. Oil on panel, 51 × 50.7 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.

literature

  • Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914–1918. Vienna 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): Flying 90/71. Exhibition catalog. Volume II. Flying in World War I, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971, p. 45f.
  2. ↑ a b Hannes Heer ; Jürgen Kesting ; Peter Schmidt: Silent voices: the Bayreuth Festival and the “Jews” from 1876 to 1945; an exhibition . Bayreuth Festival Park and New Town Hall Exhibition Hall Bayreuth, July 22 to October 14, 2012. Berlin: Metropol, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5 , p. 339
personal data
SURNAME Stetten, Norbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stetten, Norbert Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1979
Place of death Bad Mergentheim