Erich Veit

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Erich Wilhelm Emil Veit (born March 1, 1896 in Nuremberg ; † May 19, 1981 in Vienna ) was a German - Austrian painter and graphic artist . His artistic work includes technical pictures, military art and portrait studies of Austrian personalities.

life and work

Veit's parents were Emma (Anna Helene) Veit b. Kirchoff and Otto Carl Leonhard Veit. In 1905, the family moved from Nuremberg to Vienna due to the father's engagement as chief director at the Kaiser-Jubiläums-Stadttheater (today Volksoper ). Erich Veit was initially a private student of Ferdinand Schmutzer , a graphic artist, photographer and portrait painter . The industrialist Karl Freiherr von Škoda gave Veit special support. The young artist took pictures of the Škoda factories in Pilsen . During the First World War , Erich Veit was commissioned by the Imperial and Royal Army Museum to capture captured artillery and other war objects in the form of etchings . After the war, between 1919 and 1926, Erich Veit ran a studio together with his brother Hans Otto Veit (1899–1966), who was also a painter, in the Technisches Museum Wien , where he made commissioned work for the museum's permanent exhibition, which led to the development illustrate the technique . Among other things, he produced the extensive work cycle “Places of Work” , for which he went to the scenes of the event. The etchings from this cycle show the Erzberg , the iron and steel works of Witkowitz , the stages in the construction of power plants , the electrification of the federal railways and the reconstruction of Vienna after the Second World War . In the special exhibition Einmarsch '38. Military-historical aspects of March 1938 in the Army History Museum In 2008, Veit was represented with etchings of military motifs and a picture of the Army Museum with the Reich war flag , dated 1938, the year of the annexation of Austria .

Erich Veit died in Vienna in 1981. He is buried together with his wife Hermine Veit (1907–1994) at the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 72, row 9, number 15).

Holds in state collections

  • The core collection of the Technisches Museum Wien was expanded in the 1990s with the purchase of over 200 sheets from the possession of the daughter Erich Veits, as well as the artist's original copperplate hand press. The holdings of the Technisches Museum Wien offer a cross-section of the artist's work.
  • Several earlier representations of the Škoda works, as well as depictions of the captured guns from the First World War, have been preserved in the Vienna Museum of Military History . Several sheets that Erich Veit made between 1960 and 1963 and show the units of the Austrian Armed Forces are also part of the collection.

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the Vienna City Administration, MA8 + MA35 - January 21, 2009 SiE, website of the Vienna Museum of Technology
  2. ^ Veit, Hans Otto. Record on the website of the Technikmuseum Wien
  3. ↑ Peter Barthou: Einmarsch '38. Military historical aspects of March 1938 . Volume accompanying the special exhibition at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, June 11th - November 9th, 2008, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902551-08-5 , pp. 194–195
  4. ↑ Search result Erich Veit on friedhoefewien.at, accessed on September 12, 2018
  5. ^ Search result Veit, Erich on bildarchivaustria.at, accessed on September 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Veit, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veit, Erich Wilhelm Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1981
Place of death Vienna