Anton Steinhart

Anton Steinhart (born January 17, 1889 in Salzburg ; † December 11, 1964 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Steinhart came from a middle-class Salzburg family. As a child he attended the private painting school of the Salzburg landscape painter Franz Hinterholzer at his own request . Steinhart travels to England and Italy and studies in Munich and Paris. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War.

Steinhart lived in Salzburg from 1918. His sister Betty Platter ran the renowned Salzburg business Photo Ellinger , which has documented the Salzburg Festival since it was founded in 1920. Steinhart also worked regularly as a photographer at Photo Ellinger to make a living. This also resulted in numerous sketches and reed pen drawings of performances at the festival, which he published in a portfolio with Friedrich Welz in 1960 .

In addition to the many reed pen drawings, he also created oil paintings , the subjects of which were mostly landscapes . Steinhart made numerous pictures during his months in Italy. Steinhart was close friends with Anton Faistauer, who was almost the same age, as well as with the draftsman Alfred Kubin , the painter Anton Kolig and the Art Nouveau painter Carl Moll .

Most of Steinhart's paintings are in the Salzburg Museum , the former Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum , the Museum der Moderne Salzburg , the former Rupertinum and the Albertina, and are privately owned.

Exhibitions

• 1943 Exhibition “ Young Art in the German Empire ” in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
• 1945 and 1949 Albertina in Vienna
• 1956 New Gallery Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum in Linz

Works

• Reed pen drawings from the festival folder 1926-60 . Anton Steinhart, Salzburg 1960
• Wrestling with the angel. Artist letters 1933 to 1955. Alfred Kubin, Anton Kolig a. Carl Moll to Anton Steinhart, ed. by Hans Kutschera, Salzburg-Stuttgart 1964
• Salzburg: city, country, festival . 25 Bourdon tube drawings; Salzburg: Müller, 1947
• From the festival portfolio ; on the occasion of d. 40 years Existence d. Salzburg Festival 1920–1960; Salzburg: Verl. Galerie Welz, 1960

literature

• Steinhart, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 355 .
• Franz Fuhrmann, Anton Steinhart, Lotte Sieber: Anton Steinhart: The painter and draftsman. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1975, OCLC 2230194 .
• Annemarie Ingram, Anton Steinhart: Anton Steinhart in memoriam. Painting u. Graphics. Residenzgalerie, Salzburg 1966, OCLC 165505504 . (Catalog of the exhibition, Salzburg, Residenz, 1966 and Graz, Kulturhaus, October 1966).

Web links

• Entry on Anton Steinhart in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )