Alois Raimund Hein

Alois Raimund Hein (born June 1, 1852 in Vienna ; † January 4, 1937 there ) was an Austrian painter , specialist writer and founder of an association .

Life

After completing secondary school , Hein, who was born in Vienna in 1852, earned his studies as a private tutor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1869, attended a course and had worked as a civil servant for the Nordbahn company and in industry since 1871 . He then completed his studies at the academy under Karl von Blaas , Eduard von Engerth and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger and worked as a supplement from 1873, as a drawing teacher at secondary schools from 1876, in Oberhollabrunn from 1878 to 1885 , then in Vienna where he was retired in 1905. Alois Raimund Hein, who traveled to Italy on study trips as early as the 1880s , made numerous trips after 1905 that took him to Scandinavia and North Africa, after which he created oil paintings , watercolors , etchings and drawings for zinc etchings .

Alois Raimund Hein died in Vienna in 1937 at the age of 84.

Act

Hein's importance lies less in the affectionate small painting of the late Nazarene , a collective exhibition took place in 1931, but much more in his work as Adalbert Stifter's biographer , as a stimulator of the Stifter monuments in Linz 1902 and Vienna 1913 to 1919 as well as in the establishment of the "Adalbert -Stifter-Gesellschaft ” in Vienna in 1918. As the initiator of the “ Association of Austrian Drawing Teachers ” , Hein dealt with the redesign of drawing lessons in several writings. In addition, his interest in the field of art ethnology was particularly focused on the ornament types of Indonesia and America.

Works (selection)

Alois Raimund Hain: Kakemono

• Prayer , work in the Unterrach church in Upper Austria
• Portrait of Adalbert Stifter in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna , 1916
• Studio scene , Andromeda , Requiem , self-portrait

Publications

• The fine arts among the Dayaks in Borneo. Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1890 ( archive.org ).
• Meanders, crosses, swastikas and original motif swirl ornaments in America: a contribution to the general history of ornament. Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1891 ( archive.org ).
• Ornamental drawing course. 1900.
• Adalbert Stifter. His life and his works. Self-published by the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia, Prague 1904 ( archive.org ).
• Artificial vortex types - an art-ethnographic contribution to the general history of ornament. Josef Grünfeld, Vienna 1929.
• Crimes against genius. A Salzkammergut history from our days (= The Bergland Book ). German printing association, Graz 1934.

literature

• Estate : Adalbert Stifter Society Vienna and Adalbert Stifter Institute Linz.
• New Wiener Tagblatt from January 1st and 5th, 1909.
• Linzer Tages-Post from June 1, 1932.
• Linzer Volksbote Volume 48, 1932, n.1, p. 21, n.2, p. 46 ff.
• Gustav Wilhelm: Alois Raimund Hein. 1932.
• Gustav Wilhelm: The donor biographer. Alois Raimund Hein. In: Encounter with founder. Verlag Karl Alber, Munich 1943, p. 169 ff.
• Otto Jungmair : Alois Raimund Hein. His life and work. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume, 1952, p. 476 ff., Volume 9, 1955, p. 71 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
• August Martinez: Viennese studios. Biographically critical sketches. Wien Fischer 3, 1892, pp. 33-48.
• Ludwig Eisenberg: The spiritual Vienna: artists and writers lexicon. Supplement volume, C. Daberkow, Vienna 1892, p. 24 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Hermann Clemens Kosel: German-Austrian artists and writers lexicon.
• Hein, Alois Raimund . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 284 .
• Alois Raimund Hein. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 245 f. (Direct links on p. 245 , p. 246 ).

Web links

Commons : Alois Raimund Hein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alois Raimund Hein on the website of artnet.de