Arthur Stadler

Arthur Stadler (born July 23, 1892 in Vienna ; † April 11, 1937 there ) was an Austrian graphic artist and singer.

Life

Drawing for the cuckoo , 1933

Arthur Stadler grew up in Moravia , where he attended school in Kostel and then apprenticed as a locksmith and mechanical engineer for two years. From 1910 to 1914 he studied painting with Bertold Löffler at the Vienna School of Applied Arts . He also took singing lessons, including later with the Finnish song singer Helge Lindberg (1887–1928). Stadler earned his living with singing as well as caricatures and illustrations.

After the outbreak of the First World War , Stadler was drafted into military service in 1915. He processed his experiences at the front in drawings, which he exhibited as sketches and pictures of the northern theater of war in the Arnot Gallery in Vienna during a home leave, all of which were bought by the Imperial and Royal Army Museum . After the war he was active as a singer in the Netherlands , Hungary , the Czech Republic and Sweden and also created numerous artist portraits, which he published in 1921 under the title Masks . During a stay of several months in Stockholm in 1921/22 he made numerous portrait drawings for the Aftonbladet .

Back in Vienna, Stadler was hired as a caricaturist for the evening in 1922 , also provided drawings and occasional articles for the Modern World , the Wiener Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung and the Illustrierte Roman-Zeitung , and also created book illustrations and posters. His most important graphic work, the folder faces with 42 anti-war lithographs, he published in 1930 in Vienna. In the same year he resigned at the evening and worked as a freelance journalist and illustrator, first in Berlin , then in 1932 in Amsterdam . From 1932 onwards, his work appeared in numerous, mainly social democratic, papers, such as the Fighter , the Colorful Week , the Political Stage , the New Forward , the Knüppel and the Red Flag . From October 1932 to September 1933 he worked again in Vienna and provided numerous political drawings and photomontages for the cuckoo , especially those attacking Hitler and Nazi Germany .

From autumn 1933 Stadler lived in Paris , then in Brussels . During this time, his work appeared in Prager Simplicius and Pariser Tageblatt, among others . When attempts to find work in Sweden failed, he returned to Austria in the spring of 1935. He died in Hütteldorf - Hacking in 1937 .

Works

• Masks. Actor portraits . Verlag der Wiener graphic Werkstätte, Vienna 1921.
• Faces. 42 drawings . The crane prints, Vienna 1930.
  • republished (with texts in five languages) as: 1914–? 42 tekeningen . NV Servire, The Hague 1932.

Book illustrations:

• Klara Mautner (Hrsg./Übers.): Fairy tales of the fjord and fells . Verlag der Wiener graphic Werkstätte, Vienna 1922.
• Erich Singer (ed.): The red lantern. The most beautiful brothel stories in world literature . Verlag der Wiener graphic Werkstätte, Vienna 1922.
• Günther Harum: The Khadija's sleeping hood. Fairy tales for big children . Donau Verlag, Leipzig / Vienna 1922.

literature

• Marino Valdez: You are meant. Rediscovered: the painter Arthur Stadler (1892–1937) . In: Vernissage , Vol. 4, No. 7 (September 1984), p. 10 f.
• Josef Seiter: Arthur Stadler - the concise draftsman . In: Stefan Riesenfellner, Josef Seiter (ed.): The cuckoo. The modern picture illustrated magazine of the Red Vienna (= studies on social and cultural history, volume 5). Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-213-1 , pp. 37-39.
• Christine Gruber:  Stadler, Arthur. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 72 f. (Direct links on p. 72 , p. 73 ).

Web links

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