Carl Fahringer

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Carl Fahringer (born December 25, 1874 in Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria , † February 4, 1952 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Carl Fahringer studied from 1892 to 1897 at the Vienna Academy under Siegmund L'Allemand and August Eisenmenger , from 1898 to 1902 at the Munich Academy under Carl von Marr . Several study trips took him through Europe and the Orient . From 1903 to 1906 Fahringer was a member of the Hagenbund and from 1907 a member of the cooperative of fine artists. From 1929 to 1945 he was a professor at the Vienna Academy.

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

At the outbreak of the First World War , Fahringer immediately volunteered as a lieutenant in the war. He fought on the Russian front in Galicia and from May 1915 on the Isonzo front , where he - since March 1915 a member of the art group in the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter - also worked for a short time as a war painter behind the front. In 1916 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and received twice the highest commendable recognition for brave behavior in front of the enemy and in 1916 the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with the war decoration. After the autumn offensive in 1917 as far as the Piave , Fahringer was with the 26th rifle regiment on the Tonale Pass and saw the disintegration of the Austrian front in the Eisack valley .

During the Second World War , Fahringer was employed as a war painter in the Greek campaign.

After his death, Fahringer was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 12 C, Row 16, No. 8).

Fahringer left behind hundreds of works, mainly watercolors , drawings and oil paintings. In it he recorded the characteristic details of the trench warfare, especially in the alpine area. A large part of his work has been reproduced on postcards for the benefit of the Red Cross .

Works (excerpt)

  • Pillar of the Stöger-Steiner Bridge over the Baca Bach near Podmelec , 1915/16, oil on canvas, 54 × 37 cm, Army History Museum , Vienna
  • Dutch girl , 1920
  • Bali , 1929
  • Tiger , 1945

literature

  • A. Graf-Bourquin: C. Fahringer 1874–1952 , 1970.
  • Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914–1918 . Vienna, 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Österreichisches Heeresmuseum (Ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 6
  2. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914–1918 . Vienna, 1981, p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Fahringer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1952
Place of death Vienna