Armin Horovitz

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Armin Horovitz (born October 19, 1880 in Warsaw , † June 15, 1965 in Norwich ) was a Polish portrait and landscape painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

As the son of the portrait painter Leopold Horovitz, Armin studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1897 to 1901 , his teachers there were Christian Griepenkerl and Alois Delug . He then switched to the Academy in Munich , where Leo Putz trained him further. Study trips took him to France , England , Italy and the Netherlands .

After the outbreak of the First World War , Horovitz volunteered for the 5th Traindivision in Pressburg in February 1915 and was on the Serbian front from October 1915. As the commander of a prisoner transport in various prisoner-of-war camps, he had the opportunity to study “the many types of peoples fighting against the monarchy”. He wanted to make these portraits available for reproductions in favor of the Red Cross and asked "to be able to record the various types of defense and combat in an infantry division fighting in the front - depending on the differences in the terrain". On June 27, 1916, he was appointed war painter , transferred to the Austro-Hungarian War Press Headquarters and promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in January 1917 . He worked on the front in Volhynia , in 1916 on the Tyrolean front and with the Vistula flotilla . On the southern front Horovitz was briefly taken prisoner of war . In autumn 1917 he took part in the Austrian offensive on the Isonzo and in May 1918 was on the Albanian front. Until November 1918 he was listed in the registry of the war press quarter.

In the interwar period Horovitz worked as a portrait painter and book artist in Vienna . After Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938, he emigrated to England , where - with an interruption of a stay in Mexico in 1955 - he mainly worked as a portrait painter until his death.

Works (selection)

  • Mountain battery on Monte Gusella , 1918. Tempera on cardboard, 72 × 99 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
  • Sunset at the Cöe-Sattel , 1918, tempera on cardboard, 72.5 × 98.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • The last blessing , oil on canvas, Army History Museum Vienna.

literature

  • Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Österreichisches Heeresmuseum (Ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 4
  2. ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 181.
  3. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981, p. 34
  4. ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal . Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 129

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personal data
SURNAME Horovitz, Armin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horowitz, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1965
Place of death Norwich