Erhard Amadeus Dier

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Erhard Amadeus Dier , called Amadeus-Dier , (born February 8, 1893 in Vienna , † September 25, 1969 in Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

Life

Erhard Amadeus Dier studied with Camillo Sitte and Josef Jungwirth at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and traveled to Switzerland, Italy and Spain. He began his artistic activity as an illustrator. He created designs for Austrian banknotes, tapestries, wallpaper and church windows. Among other things, he painted portraits and animal pictures and worked as a graphic artist and porcelain painter.

During the time of National Socialism Dier was active in the Austrian resistance movement.

He was buried in the Weidlinger Friedhof in Klosterneuburg.

Graphic works

  • Adolf Gelber : Kalmuck fairy tales. How the chanson got the siddhi freestyle twelve times. With six color plates and some black and white drawings by Amadeus Dier. Rikola Verlag Vienna Berlin Leipzig 1921.
  • Ludwig Tieck : Pietro von Abano or Petrus Apone. A magic story. With pictures and book decorations by Erhard Amadeus Dier. A. Wolf, Vienna 1922.
  • Christoph Martin Wieland : Aspasia or the platonic love. (= The blue flower. 4). L. Heidrich, Vienna 1922.
  • Bookplate. A. Wolf, Vienna 1922. (Art portfolio).
  • Eternal melodies. Verlag L. Heidrich, Vienna / Leipzig 1922. (Art portfolio).
  • From Boccaccio's Decamerone. Society for Reproductive Art, Vienna 1924.
  • Old Vienna album. Modern world, Vienna 1924.
  • Rudolf Hans Bartsch : The little blanchefleure. With 5 etchings by EA Dier. A. Wolf, Vienna 1926.

literature

  • Dier, Erhard Amadeus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 562 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weidling parish cemetery book. (PDF) Weidling Parish, December 25, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dier, Erhard Amadeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amadeus-Dier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1969
Place of death Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria