Engelbert Lap

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Engelbert Lap (born October 19, 1886 in Graz , † April 4, 1970 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Lap attended a military school and later the Theresian Military Academy . From 1907 he served with the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger and fought in Galicia and the Dolomites in the First World War . He served in the Austrian army until 1923, his last rank was a colonel .

After his military service, he devoted himself entirely to art. At first he created pictures in water color technique before turning to woodcut . His motifs mainly show Tyrolean alpine panoramas using a strong color perspective . For his prints he orientated himself on Japanese models and he used up to 10 printing blocks and 16 colors. In addition to exhibitions of his work, his prints were also used as book illustrations . In 1930 he was involved with work on the Modern Austrian Woodcuts & Color Prints exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum Print Galleries .

Woodcuts by the artist can still be found today at auctions and in art dealers.

Works / publications

  • Michael Wagner; Engelbert Lap (illustration): The mountain of sin - story from the Firnenland . Veduka Verlag, Villingen, 1922
  • Bergland , born 1925 Volume 7, Issue 4
  • Bergland , year 1938, issue 11 (colored cover picture)
  • The Kaserstattalm in the Stubai Valley , 1960, color woodcut, 192 × 233 mm; Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Inv. No. L 198

Exhibitions

  • 1925/26: Tyrolean artists , traveling exhibition through German cities, including Gelsenkirchen, Düsseldorf, Munich and Hamburg
  • 1927: Representative Tyrolean art exhibition , Vienna Secession , Vienna
  • 1930: Exhibition of Woodcuts and Color Prints , Brooklyn Museum ,

literature

  • Lap, Engelbert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 171 .
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters born in 1881–1900. Volume 1, p. 152
  • Carl Kraus: "Between the Times". Painting and graphics in Tyrol 1918–1945. Tappeiner, Lana 1999, ISBN 88-7073-274-6 , p. 290
  • Geoffrey Holme: The woodcut of to-day at home and abroad. In: The Studio. A magazine of fine and applied art. Volume 95, No. 423, June 1928.
  • Ellen Hastaba: Tyrol's artist 1927 (= Schlern writings, volume 319). Wagner, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7030-0365-0 , pp. 199 and 200

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Parteli, Josef Fontana, Josef Riedmann: History of the state of Tyrol . Volume 4, part 2, Athesia Verlag, 1985, p. 965
  2. ↑ Artnet.de website
  3. ^ Announcement from the Brooklyn Museum . Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1916-1930. December 10, 1930, 158
personal data
SURNAME Lap, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1970
Place of death innsbruck