Alfred Schmeller

Alfred Schmeller (born March 11, 1920 in Erlangen , † September 19, 1990 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian art historian, journalist and museum director.

biography

Schmeller lived in Vienna since 1943, later also partly in Neumarkt an der Raab in Burgenland , see Künstlerdorf Neumarkt an der Raab . After 1945 he was secretary of the Art Club founded in 1947 and editor of the magnum magazine . Afterwards Schmeller worked in the preservation of monuments and was state curator for Burgenland and Vienna. After all, from 1969 to 1979 he was director of the culturally influential “ 20er Haus ”, the Austrian Museum of the 20th Century, which opened in 1962 in Vienna's Schweizergarten . Schmeller developed a rich journalistic activity. He was married to the artist Martha Jungwirth since 1969 . He was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (group E11, no. 394).

Awards

• Austrian builder award 1971 for the exhibition in the Museum of the 20th Century with Haus-Rucker-Co
• 1978: Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
• Decoration of honor of the Burgenland
• Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria

Publications

• The French Impressionists and their Circle (1954)
• Surrealism (1956)
• Burgenland (1965)
• Sehschlacht am Canal grande - essays and reviews (together with Otto Breicha ; 1978)
• Yesterday's Art (1982)

literature

• Markus Bernath: A cellar bar and its consequences , in: Der Standard , June 6, 2003 (on Schmeller and the Art Club)
• Alfred Schmeller , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 37/1979 of September 3, 1979, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Archive recordings with Alfred Schmeller in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek (interviews, discussions, radio reports)

1. ^ Alfred Schmeller in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at