Carl Leopold Hollitzer

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Carl Hollitzer photo detail from around 1908

Carl Leopold Hollitzer (born March 11, 1874 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg ( Lower Austria ), † December 1, 1942 in Rekawinkel ) was an Austrian painter , caricaturist , singer and cabaret artist .

Life

Hollitzer grew up as the son of a building contractor family in Deutsch-Altenburg. His father Karl Hollitzer (1831-1917) was elected mayor of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg from 1876 to 1884. As a quarry owner, he had earned a fortune in the millions through orders in connection with the regulation of the Danube.

Hollitzer was first married to Olga Josefine Emilie Scholz (* 1873 † ???). He had a daughter with her: Elisabeth ("Lilly") Leonore Hollitzer-Dillenz (* 1896 † 1964) became an actress and pilot. The marriage was divorced in 1902. His second wife became the dancer and singer Gertrude Barrison (1880-1946), one of the five Barrison Sisters . He separated from her in 1910.

The young Carl Leopold studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . From 1906 he worked as a singer in the first Viennese cabaret stages, the cabaret Nachtlicht and the cabaret Fledermaus . With his second wife, Gertrude Barrison, he also appeared together in cabarets.

Self-portrait by Carl Hollitzer

He founded the artists' association "Jungbund" and also acted as its president. Later he belonged to the Künstlerhaus Wien .

During the First World War , Hollitzer was a member of the art group in the kuk war press quarters (KPQ) as a war painter . The draftsman and illustrator Ludwig Hesshaimer wrote an autobiographical description of his work as a war painter during his time at KPQ. He describes his fellow artists as productive and hardworking, except for one: Carl Leopold Hollitzer, who would have been a “wealthy bohemian” but “lazy and malicious”. “He preferred to sit in cabarets, where he sang Landsknechtslieder, or in coffee houses, where he caricatured his surroundings on paper napkins and beer mats.” Hollitzer, on the other hand, joked about Hesshaimer and others' enthusiasm for work, and is supposed to ask about Hesshaimer over lunch He replied: “Yes, he has to quickly draw a sheet of paper before the soup, otherwise he won't like it.” Hesshaimer's drawings from the war sometimes become caricatured , even if these by no means have the biting character of Hollitzer's work exhibit.

Hollitzer caricatured many famous personalities, including Gustav Klimt , Karl Kraus , Hermann Bahr , Egon Friedell and Peter Altenberg , the latter two of whom were among his close circle of friends, as well as the painter Alexander Pock . Many originals of his works are now in the Albertina in Vienna . Many previously lost and unpublished works are in the private possession of a Viennese collector, including sketches from his time in the American Bar ( Loos Bar ) and the Fledermaus Bar in Vienna, caricatures and even some of his songs. The last major exhibition took place in 2001 in the Belvedere Gallery , where Hollitzer's caricatures were exhibited together with works by Oskar Laske .

He was also known for his weakness for military history. In the course of his life he put on one of the largest collections of weapons and uniforms in Europe, as well as a large collection of works of fine art with military-historical subjects . He had this extensive collection auctioned in 1934, with the Austrian Army Museum (now the Army History Museum ) in Vienna acquiring substantial parts of it.

Hollitzer died on December 1, 1942 in the Rekawinkel sanatorium, Lower Austria. He was buried in the Hollitzer-Dillenz-Erhard family cemetery at the Deutsch-Altenburg cemetery.

In 1956 Hollitzergasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him.

literature

  • Hollitzer Carl Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 403.
  • Adalbert Stifter Verein (ed.): Muses to the front! Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918 . Exhibition catalog (2 volumes), Munich, 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.donjuanarchiv.at/home/firmengruppe-hollitzer.html
  2. ↑ http://www.cyranos.ch/smbarr-d.htm
  3. ↑ Ludwig Hesshaimer: Miniatures from the monarchy. An Austro-Hungarian officer narrates with a pencil, ed. von Okky Offerhaus, Vienna, 1992, quoted in: Adalbert Stifter Verein (ed.): Muses to the Front! Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918. Exhibition catalog (2 volumes), Munich, 2003, volume 2, p. 65.

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SURNAME Hollitzer, Carl Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollitzer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cartoonist and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Deutsch-Altenburg , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1942
Place of death Rekawinkel , Lower Austria