Bernd Steiner
Bernd Steiner , also Bernhard Steiner (born April 10, 1884 in Mistelbach , Austria-Hungary ; died December 10, 1933 in Vienna ) was an Austrian graphic artist , painter and set designer .
Life
Bernd Steiner was the son of the cabinet maker and mayor of Mistelbach Bernhard Steiner. He possibly attended the Vienna Academy of Arts and took lessons from August Schaeffer von Wienwald . Steiner went to Northern Germany and worked there as a painter and set designer. He created the poster for the “International Art Exhibition” at the Kunsthalle Bremen in 1914, in which he was also represented with his own works.
During the First World War, Steiner was drafted as a reserve officer and was seriously wounded in the right arm. In Vienna he then worked as a drawing teacher in the disabled school of the orthopedist Hans Spitzy . In 1920 he advanced to artistic director of the printing and publishing company Wiener Graphische Werkstätte , for which he also designed book illustrations and furnishings. At the same time he ran his own advertising workshop Bernd Steiner , in which Joseph Binder was also doing an apprenticeship.
For the election campaign for the National Council election in Austria in 1920, Steiner created an anti-Semitic election poster for the Christian Social Party (CSP). He became known to the Viennese public for his colorful posters for redoubts and films. He received orders from the companies Julius Meinl , Pessl and Ferro Watt.
In the mid-twenties he went back to northern Germany as head of equipment at the Hamburg Theater and Bremen City Theater . He designed the advertisement for the North German Lloyd and taught in the painting class at the Kunstgewerbeschule Bremen . He returned to Vienna around 1930, seriously ill. In 1932 he was hired by Hermann Röbbeling as a painter at the Burgtheater .
- Redoubts
Bad Boys Ball (1923)
Pajama Redoubt (1924)
Carnival Monday. 2. Film Redoute (1922)
Mardi Gras Tuesday Redoute (1921)
literature
- Ch. Maryška: Steiner, Bernd. 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. 167 f. (Direct links on p. 167 , p. 168 ).
- Hellmut Rademacher: German poster art and its masters . Werner Dausien publishing house, Hanau 1965.
- Hermann Karl Frenzel : The North German Lloyd and its new posters. In: Nutzgraphik , year 1929, pp. 14–16.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steiner, Bernd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steiner, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian graphic artist, painter and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mistelbach , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1933 |
| Place of death | Vienna |