Alexander Scherban
Alexander Scherban (born February 10, 1886 in Vienna , † April 8, 1964 in Nuremberg ) was an Austrian painter .
life and work
Alexander Scherban attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . The Viennese physician Friedrich Schauta was one of his early supporters.
Scherban painted landscapes , still lifes and vedutas . He also emerged as an industrial painter with depictions of the Donawitz iron and steel works . Based in Mauer near Vienna , he organized an art exhibition there in 1916 during the First World War for the benefit of the widows and orphans of fallen residents. After the war, he designed motifs for the community's emergency money in 1920 . In the same year he painted a view of the place for the meeting room of the town hall of Mauer near Vienna - on the back of a portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph that had been hanging there until then. On behalf of the Städtische Versicherungsanstalt , he created a large-scale painting of the Hohe Sonnblick with the Kolm-Saigurn Friends of Nature House for the platform of the Hietzing tram station .
Scherban was a member of the Vienna artists' association Albrecht Dürer Bund and Kunstgemeinschaft , in whose exhibitions he presented his works. He was elected to the board of the art community in 1931, where he was responsible for internal affairs and representation at political authorities. In the same year he was awarded the Honorary Prize of the City of Vienna.
In 1936 Scherban moved to Nuremberg for a few years. In 1945 he lived in Pyrbaum, Upper Palatinate . In later years he lived for a while in the town of Rottenmann in Styria . He also stayed in Vienna again. In 1961 he returned to Nuremberg. He created some views of this city. His pictures with high mountain and blast furnace motifs received special contemporary mention.
Scherban was married twice, first from 1910 to Franziska Varasdy (* 1890) from Atzgersdorf . In 1941 he got divorced and in the same year married Friederike, born in Nuremberg. Seitz, sch. Szendrey (1906–1970). The marriages were childless.
Alexander Scherban died in Nuremberg at the age of 78. In 1988 the Scherbangasse in Vienna- Atzgersdorf was named after him.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Scherban (Vienna 1886 - 1964 Nuremberg). Aries art trade, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
- ↑ a b collective exhibition of the “art community”. In: Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung , June 8, 1924, p. 12 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ a b Felix Czeike (Ed.): Scherbangasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 77 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Theater, Art and Literature. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , September 4, 1916, p. 12 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Birgit Trinker: Liesing . Pichler, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85431-281-4 , p. 49 .
- ^ Heinz Böhm: Chronicle of the Mauer School 3rd Part 1. A contemporary witness report 1919–1928 . Maurer Heimatrunde, Vienna 2006, p. 38 .
- ↑ The Sonnblick with the Naturfreundehaus Kolm-Saigurn. In: Der Kuckuck , September 15, 1929, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Awarding of prizes. In: Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt , February 21, 1917, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Association of Austrian Visual Artists "Art Community" . In: Austrian Art. Monthly for the fine arts and their relationship to cultural life , February 1931, p. 32 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ a b c Scherban, Alexander. In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Volume 3. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , pp. 1319-1320.
- ^ The castle gate of Rottenmann in 1949. In: Rottenmann postcards - Collection Schaar Daniel. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherban, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1964 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |