Albert Hohenester

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Albert Hohenester (before 1900 - after 1943) was an Austrian officer, painter and illustrator .

Life

Hohenester was a soldier in the mountain troops . He took part in World War I and World War II . His last rank was lieutenant colonel in the mountain troops .

He became known through landscape, hunting, nature and later also war paintings, with which he also took part in numerous art exhibitions. Many of his paintings adorned the officers' mess of the mountain troop barracks.

During the Second World War, he became known beyond the Ostmark at that time through propaganda drawings and caricatures - which appeared in the magazine Da lachen Unser Bergjäger - with perseverance drawings .

Paintings (selection)

  • Hochalm in the snow
  • The home of the mountain troops
  • Narvik

Illustrations

  • Albert Hohenester, Gösta Nordhaus: Our mountain hunters are laughing. Drawings by Major Albert Hohenester, Innsbruck, 1940.
  • Albert Hohenester, Gösta Nordhaus: Just no scheme! Laughing mountaineers at the Arctic Circle. Drawings by Major Albert Hohenester. Innsbruck, 1941.
  • Albert Hohenester: And it goes on. Hooray Crete !. Drawings by Major Albert Hohenester. Innsbruck, 1943.
  • Franz Schmitt: In the Sarrasani Circus. Ruth Mey (ed.), Albert Hohenester (graphic) Berlin, undated (children's book).
  • Franz Schmitt: In the Amar Circus. Ruth Mey (ed.), Albert Hohenester (graphic) Berlin, undated (children's book).

literature

  • Roland Kaltenegger : German mountain troops in World War II. Stuttgart, Motor-Buch-Verlag 1977.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenester, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH before 1900
DATE OF DEATH after 1943