Adolf Schwarz (painter)

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Adolf Schwarz (born June 11, 1868 in Vienna ; † August 15, 1926 there ) was an Austrian painter and photographer .

Live and act

Boathouse and Landscape at Lake Wörthersee (oil on canvas)

Adolf Schwarz was born on June 11, 1868 in Vienna as the son of a Jewish businessman. Intended for the commercial profession himself, Schwarz began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1886 after high school and two years at the commercial academy , where he belonged to the general school of painting. He then took private lessons from 1887 to 1891 with Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl and continued his studies at the academy from 1891 to 1892. At the same time he worked in the studios of Adolf Kaufmann and Heinrich Lefler before he went to Munich and Dachau , where he worked under Alexander Franz Wilhelm Dill and Adolf Hölzel .

Among the most famous of his landscape paintings are the atmospheric moor pictures from Bavaria . He also began painting water landscapes in the late 19th century. At the turn of the century, the first pictures from the south with fishermen from Istria , sea moods, Dalmatian rocks, and coastal landscapes from Chioggia to the Bay of Kotor (Italian: Bocche di Cattaro , Croat : Boka Kotorska ) were created. Over the years, Schwarz received the reputation of being one of the few Austrian marine painters . In the more southern climes, Schwarz soon reached another important aspect of his artistic work when he depicted the working world there in his pictures. In addition to working sailors, shipbuilders and port workers, his pictures also showed their workplaces such as shipyards, iron foundries, workshops and blacksmiths.

As early as 1894, Schwarz exhibited in the Vienna Künstlerhaus and in 1900 was accepted into the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna (the Künstlerhaus). Here he was a member of the watercolorists 'club and the painters' association. During the First World War, Schwarz worked as a war painter in the Imperial and Royal War Press Quarters , and during the war he was one of 280 war painters employed by the KPQ art group. In his works, Schwarz mainly worked with oil and pastel , but later also tried his hand at tempera .

Throughout the time of his life, Schwarz, who also tried his hand as a photographer and, among other things, photographed the painter Max Kurth with his family in 1898, also showed social commitment. He also became a member of the Socialist Party , to which his widow, Vienna District Councilor Adele Schwarz, also belonged. On August 15, 1926, Schwarz died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in the recreation center for children in Pötzleinsdorf , where he played the piano for the children . The funeral took place on August 18, 1926 at the Vienna Central Cemetery . After Adolf Schwarz's death, his widow handed over 120 oil paintings from the estate to the party. At Schwarz's request, his so-called workshop pictures in particular were to be hung in workers' homes.

Works (selection)

  • 1893: Autumn motif from Dornbach
  • 1896: peat bog
  • 1897: rainy mood in the moor
  • 1897: Autumn landscape in Upper Bavaria
  • 1902: From a machine shop
  • 1902: Old forge
  • 1908: Motif from Istria
  • 1908: Dalmatian fishing boats
  • 1916: The squadre expires
  • 1916: View of Ragusa
  • 1916: An enemy merchant ship is brought in by an Austrian torpedo boat
  • 1916: torpedo boat attack
  • 1917: Dalmatian sailing barges
  • 1922: From a shipyard
  • 1923: Forest motif from Carniola
  • 1924: Surf at Fort Lorenzo in Ragusa
  • 1924: Scirocco mood on the Adriatic
  • 1926: From the Danube meadows

Literature (selection)

Web links

  • Adolf Schwarz in the virtual exhibition "The Faces of the German Art Archive"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sudden death of the marine painter Schwarz. In:  Neue Freie Presse , August 17, 1926, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp, accessed on January 28, 2020
  2. ↑ Tragic Death. In:  Der Tag / Der Wiener Tag , August 17, 1926, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / day, accessed on January 28, 2020
  3. ^ Died on the piano. In:  Wiener Morgenzeitung / Sportblatt der Wiener Morgenzeitung / Das Buch der Zeit. Literature supplement to the “Wiener Morgenzeitung” , August 17, 1926, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrm, accessed on January 28, 2020
  4. ↑ Our dead .. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , August 17, 1926, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze, accessed on January 28, 2020
  5. ^ Painter Adolf Schwarz .. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , August 21, 1926, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze, accessed on January 28, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1926
Place of death Vienna , Austria