Anton Velim

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Anton Velim (born February 24, 1892 in Vienna ; † October 13, 1954 ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. Forgotten for a long time, after the emergence of his estate in 2006 he is increasingly coming back into the public eye.

Life

Anton Velim was born in Vienna as the son of a Moravian tailor. From 1908 to 1912 he attended the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt , after which he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Alois Delug . As early as 1910 he was able to work on the Vienna hunting exhibition under Alfred Roller , in 1913 he designed postcards for the Wiener Werkstätte and exhibited at the Vienna Secession . The Gundel Prize in 1916, the L'Allemand Prize in 1919, and the Rome Prize in 1920 were further early successes . The Wittgenstein family was also among his clients . In the 1920s Velim took part in the Grinzing artist colony and received the Austrian State Prize in 1927. In 1924 he married.

With the dissolution of the Grinzing artists' colony and the loss of his studio, success began to fail and he fell into poverty. In 1933 he had one last exhibition in the Vienna Secession, and in 1936 his sports performances were shown in the Olympic exhibition in Berlin . As a result, he had to hire himself out as a vocational school teacher. In addition to artistic unsuccessfulness, there were private catastrophes - his son died in World War II and his wife separated from him. Velim restlessly painted numerous pictures for himself.

Only after the war did he go public again. In 1946 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus , where he exhibited shortly before his death in 1954, taking part in the show 100 Years of the Rise of a Class . In that year he also received the Honorary Prize of the City of Vienna. There are various accounts of his death; while the press wrote of a heart attack, the world press spoke of varnish poisoning.

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Anton Velim began to work in Art Nouveau style in his youth , but his focus in painting was on depicting working people, so that he has been referred to as the “Egger-Lienz of the proletariat ”. Velim's art was appreciated by both Albin Egger-Lienz and Anton Hanak ; Walter Maria Neuwirth wrote about Velim's artistic path to dematerialized painting .

In addition to working people, Velim also painted landscapes, portraits and nudes . In 1949 he created wall paintings in Burgenland .

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SURNAME Velim, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1954