Anton Josef Trčka
Anton Josef Trčka (born September 7, 1893 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 16, 1940 in Vienna) was a Czech-Austrian photographer, painter and writer.
Life
Anton Josef Trčka was the son of the grocer Josef Trčka (1868–1920) and Eleonore Trčka (1867–1909), who had moved to Vienna from Moravia. Trčka remained connected to his family's Czech language. From 1911 to 1915 he attended the Kk Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna in the class of Karel Novák , who also taught him the contemporary painting of the Pre-Raphaelites and the art of symbolism . Trude Fleischmann and Rudolf Koppitz were also in the class . He signed his work with ANTIOS .
Trčka experimented with the new photographic techniques. In 1914 he got to know Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt , whom he from then on frequently photographed and who recommended him to their friends.
From 1916 to 1918 he did military service, then from 1919 he worked for the military photography department of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Public Works in Prague , but continued to live in Vienna. In 1918 he married the wealthy Clara Schlesinger, they had a daughter. Through her he came into contact with Rudolf Steiner and his Anthroposophical Society . In 1922 he attended the Anthroposophical Congress in Vienna.
Trčka dealt with Klimt's ornamental style. He developed idiosyncratic watercolors from Czech folklore . Trčka also wrote poetry, he was friends with the nationalist Czech poet Josef Svatopluk Machar . Between 1929 and 1937 he organized readings in his studio.
In 1924 he began to take photos again, worked in Hella Katz's studio in Vienna in 1925 and founded the “Ringwerkstätten für Kunsthandwerk und Lichtbildkunst” in Vienna in 1926. In 1930 he still passed the master's examination for photographers. He only exhibited sporadically and gave up photography altogether after 1930. He worked on his poems, for which, however, no more publications can be proven after 1924.
Trčka died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1940 ; the death mask was removed by the sculptor Franz Seifert . The studio with the photographic, painting and literary estate stored there was destroyed in the bombing war in 1944. Trčka's photos from private collections were shown in Prague in 1993 and in Salzburg in 1999.
literature
- Josef Anton Trčka: photographer vídeňské moderny: Praha 15. 12. 1993-17. 1st 1994 . Prague: Galerie Franze Kafky, 1993
- Carl Haenlein (eds.): Anton Josef Trčka, Edward Weston, Helmut Newton: the artificiality of the real; photographed bodies; March 14th to May 24th, 1998 . Catalog / Kestner Society; 1998.1 / 2. Zurich: Scalo, 1998 ISBN 3-931141-87-X
- Monika Faber : Anton Josef Trčka: 1893–1940 . Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in July 1999 in the Rupertinum, Museum for Contemporary and Modern Art, Salzburg State Collections. Vienna: Brandstätter, 1999 ISBN 3-85447-870-4
- T. Starl: Trčka, Anton Josef; Ps. Antios (1893–1940), photographer, painter and writer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 439 f. (Direct links on p. 439 , p. 440 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Josef Trčka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Anton Josef Trčka in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Monika Faber : Anton Josef Trcka , retrospective, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 1999/2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Successor organization in Czechoslovakia to the Ministry of Public Works (Cisleithanien)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trčka, Anton Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trcka, Anton Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian photographer, painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1940 |
| Place of death | Vienna |