Albert Janesch

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Albert Janesch (born June 12, 1889 in Vienna ; † 1973 ibid) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter .

Life

Janesch studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1904 to 1912 , his teachers were Siegmund L'Allemand and Franz Rumpler .

During the First World War , Janesch was accepted as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter on October 20, 1915 . He worked first in Belgrade , then Trieste and subsequently, until autumn 1916, on various sections of the Isonzo front . From December 1917 to June 1918 he was on the Turkish front. In 1916 he received the 1st prize in the war memorial competition. Until November 1918 he was listed in the registry of the war press quarter.

During the Second World War , Janesch was used again as a war painter, working on the south and west coast of France , in Russia and Greece .

After the war he was awarded the contract, the "iron room" to the newly opened artillery Hall ( Arsenal Object 2 ) of the Military History Museum to freskieren . In 1952/53 he executed the fresco “The Artillery of Emperor Maximilian I ”, using a painting by Jörg Kölderer as a model. The frescoes were completed on March 25, 1954.

tomb

Janesch is buried in the honor grave group in Vienna's central cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Italian airplane over the port of Trieste , 1915, black chalk on cardboard, 48.6 × 70 cm ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Portrait Otto Ender , 1951, oil on canvas, 78.5 × 58.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Charkow train station , 1943, watercolor on paper, 60.5 × 75 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Field hospital in Ossinovskoje , 1942, watercolor on paper, 52 × 68 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna

literature

  • Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): Flies 90/71 , exhibition catalog, Volume II: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Österreichisches Heeresmuseum (Ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 5
  2. ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 181.
  3. ^ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flies 90/71", catalog for the exhibition, Volume II: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971, p. 31.
  4. ↑ Manfried Rauchsteiner : Phoenix from the ashes. Destruction and reconstruction of the Army History Museum 1944 to 1955, volume accompanying the special exhibition of the Army History Museum June 21 to October 20, 2005. Vienna 2005, p. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Janesch, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1973
Place of death Vienna