Alexander Demetrius Goltz

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Alexander Demetrius Goltz
Alexander Demetrius Goltz in his studio (1903)
The visitor in 1919

Alexander Demetrius Goltz (also Alexander Demeter Goltz ) (born January 25, 1857 in Püspökladány , Hungary ; † May 14, 1944 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and set designer .

Life

Alexander Demetrius Goltz was the son of a railway engineer and grew up in Vienna from 1859. In 1874/75 he studied painting with Otto Seitz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

From 1875 to 1877 Goltz was a student of Anselm Feuerbach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1876 he exhibited a portrait of a woman for the first time . In 1880 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

He subsequently went on extensive study trips, lived in Munich from 1884 to 1888, studied in Paris with Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and settled in Vienna in 1892. He initially devoted himself to figure painting with a historical background, later to landscape and portrait painting . From 1904 to 1907 he was head of equipment at the Hofburgtheater and from 1909 to 1910 head of equipment at the Imperial and Royal Court Opera Theater .

Alexander Demetrius Goltz, who belonged to the Hagenbund from 1900 to 1911 and was its president from 1906 to 1907, portrayed numerous personalities from art and politics, such as the actors Max Devrient , Josef Kainz and Auguste Wilbrandt-Baudius .

As a result, he shifted his artistic focus to stage equipment and was head of the equipment department of the Vienna Hofburgtheater from 1904 to 1907 and of the court opera in 1909/10 .

During the First World War , Alexander Demetrius Goltz worked as a war painter in the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter in the Belgian, Russian, Italian, Serbian, Albanian and Turkish theater of war. Several works from this period are now in the collections of the Vienna Museum of Military History .

From November 11, 1925 to November 5, 1929 he was president of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna .

Goltz was in his second marriage (from 1909) to the actress Maria ( Mary ) Mell (1885-1954), sister of the writer Max Mell , married.

Grave of Alexander Demetrius Goltz at the Vienna Central Cemetery

A municipal grave of honor was dedicated to Goltz, a citizen of the city of Vienna since 1927 , in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 23 A, Row 1, No. 43). 

Works (excerpt)

painting

  • Goatherd , 1922, signed and dated "AD Goltz 1922", oil on cardboard, 98 × 90 cm
  • Oriental market square , 1886, signed and dated "Alexander D. Goltz 886 Munich", oil on canvas, 80 × 127 cm
  • Spring , signed “ADGoltz”, oil on canvas, 108.6 × 96.5 cm
  • Portrait of a young lady in a boat , signed “AD Goltz”, oil on canvas, 118 × 139 cm

Frescoes

  • Ceiling painting of the auditorium in the National Theater , Zagreb 1894/95
  • The human striving for perfection , Aula of the Karl-Franzens-University, Graz 1910/30

In publications

  • Alfred von Ehrmann, - (Ill.): The string quartet. Fantasies of a musician. With marginal drawings by A (lexander) D (emetrius) Goltz. Austrian publishing house, Linz – Vienna – Leipzig 1903, ÖNB .
  • Rosa Fischer, - (Ill.): East Styrian farming life. With a preface by Peter Rosegger . Illustrated by Alexander D [emeter] Goltz. Austrian Publishing House, Vienna 1903, OBV .
  • Siege of Antwerp 1914. Projectile effects of the Austro-Hungarian 30.5 cm motor mortar batteries. 12 art sheets based on originals by A (lexander) D (emeter) Goltz. Painted from nature in Antwerp with the permission of the Deputy General Staff in Berlin. St. Stefan Wiener Verlags-Gesellschaft, Vienna 1915, ÖNB .
  • War pictures exhibition of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter. Künstlerhaus Vienna October 2, 1915. Reisser, Vienna 1915, p. 44f

Literature, sources

Web links

Commons : Alexander Demetrius Goltz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siege of Antwerp 1914 .
  2. ↑ a b Müller: Alexander Demetrius Goltz.
  3. ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum. Vienna 1923, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Goltz, Alexander Demetrius . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 348-349 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Wladimir Aichelburg : Das Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861–2001. Volume 1: The artists' cooperative and its rivals Secession and Hagenbund. Monographs on the art of Austria in the twentieth century, Volume 1.1, ZDB -ID 2290217-X . Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85437-189-6 , p. 120.
  6. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Prof. Alexander Demetrius Goltz , accessed on September 18, 2011.
  7. ↑ on dorotheum.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 22, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dorotheum.com  
  8. ↑ at christies.com , accessed on January 22, 2013.
  9. ↑ at christies.com , accessed on January 22, 2013.
  10. ↑ at sothebys.com , accessed on January 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Goltz, Alexander Demetrius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltz, Alexander Demeter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Püspökladány , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1944
Place of death Vienna