Arnold Clementschitsch

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Wall painting No. 1 in the large ballroom of the Klagenfurt Chamber of Commerce
Wall painting No. 2 in the large ballroom of the Klagenfurt Chamber of Commerce

Arnold Jacob Clementschitsch (born June 18, 1887 in Villach ; † December 10, 1970 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

The Villach landscape and genre painter Arnold J. Clementschitsch brought something like a metropolitan train into Carinthian painting. "He is the only one who noticeably establishes the links to the specific artistic expression of two cities: Vienna and Munich (Leopoldine Springschitz)." Clementschitsch was the son of a lawyer and was born on June 18, 1887 in Villach . The first encounter with painting took place when Clementschitsch, as a small child, had the urge to draw a man and a dog in a landscape painting by Canziani in his parents' house. That was the first conscious memory of painting. Shaped by painting from his earliest childhood, Clementschitsch was very much interested in painting and repeatedly made portraits of many of his siblings without having the firm intention of practicing painting. There were always artists visiting his parents' house who carried out commissioned works for the family, so he was fortunate enough to observe their working style very closely for hours. Since Clementschitsch spent a time in Italy with his maternal family in his early youth, he was probably also influenced by the contact with Friulian, medieval art and the humanistic-philosophical approach of those Italian relatives. One of those relatives, Carl Andreas Picco, also founded the Villach City Museum in 1873.

When he was doing a traineeship in a Viennese bank at the age of 19, he felt the desire to become a painter, which he put into practice two years later. He was a frequent guest at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The Villacher gave up the banking profession in 1908 and took advantage of the training opportunities offered by the capital of the Reich. He attended the graphic teaching and research institute , where he learned from Hubert Landa and Erwin Puchinger . A year later he switched to the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1910 to the arts and crafts school on the Stubenring . In 1911 Clementschitsch went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1915 the artist had to enter. After the war, Clementschitsch stayed in Carinthia and moved to the Rauterhube, inherited from his parents, above Annenheim, where he found his own personal style of painting. One of the main motifs was the Ossiacher See.

Springschitz: “Encounters with Carinthian artists, with Herbert Boeckl in 1924, who significantly stimulated Clementschitsch's nude painting, with the distinguished lyrical landscape painter Felix Esterl at the end of the twenties, brought the human and artistic ties to painting in the country.” He was then also the preferred portraitist many Carinthian families. In Vienna he was already noticed at his first collective exhibition in 1920 at the Secession with his highly original street scenes. Exhibitions in Barcelona (1928), Venice (1932) and Vienna (1953) followed. Besides Thöny, he can be counted as the only Austrian representative of the Blue Rider . Arnold Clementschitsch was last paralyzed and died at the age of 83 on December 10, 1970 in the nursing home of the Villach State Hospital. With his work and the magnificent self-portrait from 1946, this Carinthian remains present even after death.

Awards

Works

  • Self-Portrait (1946)
  • Two wall paintings (1952) in the large ballroom of the Klagenfurt Chamber of Commerce

Exhibitions

  • Arnold Clementschitsch (1887–1970) , Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt, April 7 to September 4, 2016

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Web links

Commons : Arnold Jacob Clementschitsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Commissioned by the Klagenfurt Chamber of Commerce in Klagenfurt (year of origin 1952), with kind permission for publication by Ing.Klaus Köpf, consultant in the WK
  2. ^ Arnold Clementschitsch
personal data
SURNAME Clementschitsch, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clementschitsch, Arnold Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1970
Place of death Villach