Carl Ederer

Carl Ederer (born April 23, 1875 in Vienna , † April 2, 1951 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and mosaicist who lived and worked in Germany from 1910.

Life

Gold mosaic in the Elizabeth Chapel of the Mexico Church

Ederer attended a private painting school as well as the Vienna School of Applied Arts and the Vienna Art Academy . In 1899 he received the Academy's Rome Prize.

From 1905 to 1909 he was a member of the Vienna Secession . After a trial against Koloman Moser in 1908, which ended with a settlement, he turned away from Vienna and in 1910 accepted a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which he held until 1944. There he was a member of the renowned artists' association “Malkasten” .

Ederer made a design drawing for the mosaic altarpiece of the church at Steinhof , and in this regard he litigated Koloman Moser for his plagiarism allegation. He also drew the designs for the Elizabeth Chapel in the Mexico Church , which is decorated with gold mosaics .

In addition to sacred works of art such as the mosaics mentioned, depictions of animals also received special attention within his work. A large exhibition of more than 40 works at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1911 showed a cross-section of his work and contained oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, tempera pictures, drawings and lithographs.

literature

• Ederer, Carl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 341 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Liselotte Schwab: Homage to a murdered empress. The Elisabeth Chapel in the Kaiser Franz Josef Jubilee Church in Vienna II, Mexikoplatz. (Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2009.) Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8366-9015-7 , p. 102 f. ( books.google.at ).
• Martin Ederer: Carl Ederer 1875–1951. Vienna, Düsseldorf, Munich. Paintings, drawings, sculptures. G. Bresler, Erlangen 1994.