Alois Arnegger

Alois Arnegger (born March 9, 1879 in Vienna ; † August 11, 1963 there ) was an Austrian landscape painter .

Life

Arnegger studied in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts with Robert Russ and August Eisenmenger and was best known for his work as a landscape painter. At first he created images of Austrian landscapes such as the Alps or the wine-growing town of Senftenberg , where he often spent his summer holidays. After his study trips to Italy in the 1920s, his focus was increasingly on Mediterranean coastal landscapes, including views of Naples , Capri and San Remo .

Like some other landscape painters, Arnegger tried to satisfy the society , which had been torn by industrialization and wars, and to revive its longing for an intact world and intact nature (e.g. “Alpine romance”), which ultimately made him famous .

Arnegger died in Vienna in 1963 at the age of 84. One of his sons Gottfried Arnegger (1908–1943) was also a painter.

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There are hundreds of oil paintings by Alois Arnegger, most of which are in private hands. His mountainous landscapes in particular appear regularly at art auctions (e.g. Dorotheum ), where they are advertised at prices between 2,000 and 10,000 euros.

Exhibitions

Some works were shown posthumously in the exhibition

• 2010/11: Alpine romance in landscape painting. Frey Näpflin Foundation, Stans NW.

literature

• Arnegger, A. In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 252 . Year of birth there: 1889, no further information about the artist.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from: Alpenromantik in the Stanser Frey-Näpflin-Stiftung . SRF, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, from November 6, 2010. With illustration painting Alpenglow , oil on canvas. Retrieved December 13, 2013.