Arthur Kurtz

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Drawing by Arthur Kurtz, 1891

Arthur Kurtz (born September 23, 1860 in Sankt Gallen (Styria) , † January 20, 1917 in Baden (Lower Austria) ) was an Austrian painter and writer.

Life

Arthur Kurtz attended the Graz Drawing Academy from 1884 to 1886, after which he studied at the Munich Academy with Johann Caspar Herterich and Ludwig von Löfftz . Franz von Lenbach and Franz Defregger also promoted him in Munich . He then lived alternately in Munich, Vienna, Hungary, Baden near Vienna and on the Semmering. Kurtz was popular as a portraitist , especially in aristocratic circles in Great Britain and Austria. Among other things, he painted pictures of Empress Elisabeth , Emperor Franz Josef I , who visited him on February 16, 1897 in his Vienna studio on the 4th floor on Hohen Markt . A picture of King Edward VII of Great Britain was also created in Marienbad . He noted the high visits to his studio on a palette that was preserved. Photos of it are in the Admont Abbey Archives in Styria, Austria. Kurtz was also active in literature.

His brothers included the painter Augustin Maria Kurtz-Gallenstein (1856–1916) and Oskar Kurtz (1863–1927), inventors of mechanical musical instruments.

Works

  • All sorts of useful nonsense - world perpetuum. FV Ellmenreich, Merano.
  • Catalog of a collection of paintings by the painter Artur Kurtz. A. Kende, Vienna 1902.

Paintings (selection)

  • Chaos or the creation of the world
  • The world perpetual motion machine
  • The 4 temperaments
  • The creation of woman
  • Wandelhalle in Marienbad with a portrait of Edward VII of Great Britain see study https://kunst-sammlung.at/artifact_Detail/7
  • Portrait of Queen Elisabeth of Austria
  • World peace cycle, 14 pictures, Lucerne
  • The sinking of the Russian admiral ship "Petropawlowsk" off Port Arthur
  • Meteor fall near Karlsbad
  • Self-Portrait
  • Portrait of the artist's parents
  • Portrait of the artist's sister Laura
  • Bookplate from the collaboration with Peter Rosegger

Publications

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ matrikel.adbk.de
  2. ↑ cf. Degener, column 939; Arthur Kurtz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 132-133 .
  3. ↑ see https://kunst-sammlung.at/artifact_Detail/1675
  4. ↑ see https://kunst-sammlung.at/artifact_Detail/1
  5. ↑ see https://kunst-sammlung.at/artifact_Detail/3
  6. ↑ see https://kunst-sammlung.at/artifact_Detail/1687
personal data
SURNAME Kurtz, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Gallen (Styria)
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1917
Place of death Baden (Lower Austria)