Adolf Stocksmayr

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Adolf Stocksmayr (born July 23, 1879 in St. Pölten in Lower Austria , † March 18, 1964 in Überlingen on Lake Constance ) was an Austrian artist, life reformer and inventor.

Life

Adolf Stocksmayr began studying at the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Christian Griepenkerl in Vienna in 1900 , which he broke off again in 1902. In the years up to the First World War he lived in Unterradlberg , repeatedly interrupted by trips and work stays in Haida / Böhmen, Vienna, Munich, Dornach / CH and the Swiss Ticino. Between 1914 and 1918 he spent with his partner and their two children in various places around Ascona / CH, where he was in close contact with the artist and philosopher Gusto Gräser and other life reformers as member No. 24 of the Cooperativa Monte Verità . After that he worked many times in Switzerland, Vorarlberg and the German Lake Constance region. From 1927 until his death he lived in Überlingen on Lake Constance.

Work

Stocksmayr left behind a large number of artistic works in different techniques. He portrayed in watercolor and oil, painted landscapes and cityscapes all his life and illustrated mythological and literary materials, photographed and created ceramic works. He dealt with the solution of technical problems and in 1943 submitted a patent application for the use of wind power to the Reich Patent Office in Berlin. Stocksmayr's early work, which was created between 1899 and approx. 1920, is characterized by a willingness to experiment in terms of motifs, content and form. Among other things, around 1913, under the influence of his encounters with Rudolf Steiner, he also created individual abstract works of art or cosmic visions.

Exhibitions

Adolf Stocksmayr's artistic work received little public attention during his lifetime. In the 1970s Harald Szeemann tried to buy part of Stocksmayr's estate for the Museo Casa Anatta on Monte Verità.

  • In 1996 the "Society of Friends of Art Überlingen eV" showed works by Adolf Stocksmayr in the exhibition 100 Years of Art in Überlingen .
  • Likewise, the Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Ascona in 2010 in the 1922 exhibition Le Origini della Collezione .
  • An exhibition in the Städtisches Museum Überlingen from April 1 to December 20, 2014 shows under the title: Adolf Stocksmayr (1879 - 1964) Searching for the Eldorado more than 160 works from private collections and from the estate of Adolf Stocksmayr.

literature

  • Mara Folini, Veronica Provenzale, Michaela Zucconi-Poncini (Red.): 1922. Le Origini della Collezione . Locarno 2010. ISBN 978-88-8281-279-9
  • Society of Friends of Art Überlingen e. V. (Ed.): 100 years of art in Überlingen. Painting - graphics - plastic . Überlingen 1996
  • Hansjörg Straub: "A fine person, but a poor devil". The painter Adolf Stocksmayr (1879–1964) . In: Life at the lake . Yearbook of the Lake Constance District, 23rd year 2006, pp. 120–132
  • Hansjörg Straub: Adolf Stocksmayr. In the footsteps of a restless man . Uberlingen Municipal Museum. Überlingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-9809574-4-1
  • Hansjörg Straub: It is not easy to keep a particularly versatile guy in good order. In search of traces of the life reformer and artist Adolf Stocksmayr . In: Life at the lake . Yearbook of the Bodenseekreis, 31st year 2014, pp. 26–35

Web links

Commons : Adolf Stocksmayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition Search for the Eldorado ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Stocksmayr, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist, life reformer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Pölten , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1964
Place of death Überlingen , Lake Constance