Eduard Manhart
Eduard Manhart (born January 19, 1880 in Klagenfurt , † 1945 in Begunje ) was an Austrian landscape painter and fresco artist.
After finishing school he moved to Vienna, where he attended the arts and crafts school from 1898 to 1900 , then for two years the master school for landscape painting with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels .
From 1904 to 1906 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Ludwig Willroider .
After graduating, he returned to Carinthia, where he worked as a landscape painter. He became a member of the Carinthian Art Association and took part in several exhibitions in the country.
During the First World War he worked as a war painter on the Southwest Front from 1916 to 1918 . After the end of the war he took part in the Carinthian defensive battle .
From the 1920s onwards, he created several view pictures that appeared in the form of postcards.
Manhart was commissioned with the artistic design of the Klagenfurt train station. In 1926 he created the wall painting “ Ankogel ” in the Klagenfurt country house .
During the Second World War he was again active as a war painter on the Norwegian front. Shortly after the end of the war, Eduard Manhart was abducted by the Slovenian partisans and died, probably in May 1945, in the internment camp Vigaun / Begunje in Slovenia.
literature
- Ilse Spielvogel-Bodo: Eduard Manhart 1880–1945 Life and work : Klagenfurt: Heyn: 2003: ISBN 978-3-85366-970-9
Web links
- Gallery Magnet - Biography (digitized version)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manhart, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Manhart, Eduard Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter and fresco artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |
| Place of death | Begunje |