Anton Lehmden

Anton Lehmden in portrait (2011)

Anton Lehmden (born January 2, 1929 in Cabaj , Czechoslovakia ; † August 7, 2018 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and printmaker who is part of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

Life

Lehmden studied from 1945 as a student of Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , where he later taught as a professor from 1971 to 1997. In 1962 he received a teaching position in Istanbul. Among other things, he designed the Volkstheater subway station in Vienna and the church in Istanbul belonging to St. Georgs Kolleg .

Lehmden's first work monograph was published by Alfred Schmeller in 1968 under the title World Landscapes . At the end of the 1960s he moved to Schloss Deutschkreutz in Burgenland , which was also owned by the Esterházy family . Together with his daughter, he organized guided tours through the castle and hosted the summer spectacle Literature in the Green . In 1984 he was awarded the Lovis Corinth Prize .

Lehmden died on August 7, 2018 at the age of 90.

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Anton Lehmden's early work shows references to Chinese landscape painting. However, his lyrical landscapes often appear fragmented, floating, bursting and broken up in layers. Traumatic war experiences are processed in pictures on subjects such as “tank battle”, architecture is also an important focus, not least the monuments of antiquity that Lehmden got to know on numerous trips (such as the Colosseum in Rome or the Egyptian pyramids ).

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  Anton Lehmden as lord of the castle in Deutschkreutz Castle

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  Anton Lehmden in front of one of his works

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  Another of his works, exhibited in the castle gallery

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  A “trilogy” by Anton Lehmden

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  The Volkstheater underground station, artistically designed by Anton Lehmden

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  Mosaic “Noon” at Dag-Hammarskjöld-Hof in Matthäus-Jiszda-Straße in Vienna-Floridsdorf

literature

• Walter Schurian (text), Gerd Lindner (ed.): 1900 to 2010: Fantastic art from Vienna. Panorama-Museum, Bad Frankenhausen 2010. ISBN 9783938049174 (with illus ., Also by and about Arik Brauer , Ernst Fuchs , Rudolf Hausner , Hanno Karlhuber and Wolfgang Hutter )
• Norbert Langer: Aufzüge - Lovis Corinth Prize 1984 (for Anton Lehmden and Roland Dörfler ). In: Sudetenland: European cultural magazine; Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia; Quarterly journal for art, literature, science and folklore 27 (1985), volume 3, pp. 217-219.
• Alexander Jernej, Werner Jobst, Franz Kangler: Anton Lehmden - Fantastic Realism on the Bosporus. The Vincentian St. Georgswerk in Istanbul. Brandstätter, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7106-0303-7 .
• Hans Tesch : Schloss Deutschkreutz facing an uncertain future. In: Burgenland-Mitte. Scherz-Kogelbauer (Ed.), Kirchschlag i. d. B. W., November 27, 2018, accessed August 6, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Anton Lehmden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Anton Lehmden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anton Lehmden on kunstaspekte.de
• Website Anton Lehmden
• Video from 2009 with, among others, Anton Lehmden.
• Entry for Anton Lehmden in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ orf.at: Anton Lehmden passed away . Article dated August 8, 2018, accessed August 8, 2018.
2. ^ Walter Schurian: 1900 to 2010: Fantastic Art from Vienna , ISBN 9783938049174 , pages 137-138, 159