Edmund Adler

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Edmund Adler (born October 15, 1876 in Vienna , † May 10, 1965 in Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge ) was an Austrian artist.

Life

His father, Heinrich Adler, came from Kunemil (dt. Kunemühle) in Bohemia , his mother, Maria Magdalena Wiesinger, was a farmer's daughter from Zistersdorf .

From 1892 to 1896 he studied at the art school for lithography with Professor Würbel, with whom he also worked as a lithographer , and attended the graphic teaching and research institute in Vienna for three years . From 1894 to 1903 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . His teacher was Professor Christian Griepenkerl . In the final year 1903 he was awarded by the Academy of the Rome Prize , the Kenyon Traveling Fellowship, which was associated with a one year stay in Rome (1903-1904).

Edmund Adler came to the Leithagebirge area as a child , as his parents spent several years in Hof am Leithaberge for their summer vacation. He also got to know his future wife, Rosa (daughter of the retired kuk - lieutenant Karl Pankratz). At first they lived in the VII., XVII. and III. District of Vienna and continued to spend the summer months in Hof am Leithaberge. Daughter Rosa Magdalena was born there on August 11, 1903 (she died on October 18, 1985). Gustav (* May 4, 1905, † March 12, 1907) and Gilbert (* May 16, 1908, † July 17, 1995), the two sons, were both born in Vienna. Since in the summer months he learned to love the country and the people who were to become his new models, he chose Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge as his new home in the spring of 1910.

In the autumn of 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , the artist had to enter and was deployed on the Eastern Front. On December 24, 1914, he was taken prisoner by Russia , where he remained until the end of April 1920. In Siberia it was possible for him to make exhibitions with Austrian and Russian artists. It was not until June 1920 that he came home on the first return ship.

He didn't have much time to realize his artistic dreams because he had to work in the fields for about a year because of the famine. In addition, he began work on his portraits ; z. B: Youth and My Daughter . The livelihood was secured by commissioned work for Viennese art galleries, such as portrait studies of children and pictures of children's scenes. He signed some of these works with the synonym Edmund A. Rode .

On April 18, 1924, his wife Rosa died at the age of 46, which hit the artist hard. His daughter renounced her own family in order to be able to look after her father from then on. She later founded a piano school, with which she contributed significantly to the livelihood for many years. After the artist passed away in 1965, she managed his artistic legacy. She lived in modest circumstances, but she did everything possible to publicize her father's works. What she did not succeed in was to convert the house with a study and death room as a memorial for her father.

The artistic estate of Edmund Adler is owned by the municipality of Mannersdorf and has been presented to the public in the Edmund Adler Gallery since 2006.

Works

  • Youth self-portrait oil / L. around 1900
  • Female nude in the Oil / L studio . 1902
  • The artist's wife with a fan oil / L. around 1900
  • Punja oil / L. around 1920
  • Youth oil / L. around 1921/22
  • My daughter oil / L. 1923
  • Self-portrait of the artist Oil / L. 1942
  • My models and I oil / L. 1945
  • Children with bird cage oil / L. around 1950

literature

  • Barbara Kremser: Edmund Adler. Life and work. Mannersdorf 2000.
  • Heribert Schutzbier: Edmund Adler. Military service and imprisonment as reflected in his correspondence. Mannersdorf 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Kaindl : Painting in Lower Austria 1918-1988. Short bio and sources, p. 272.
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1965
Place of death Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge