Ernst Degn

Grave of Ernst Degn in the New Mühlau Cemetery, Innsbruck

Ernst Degn (born August 27, 1904 in Schärding , Upper Austria ; † March 26, 1990 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter of naturalism and lived in Innsbruck.

Life

Ernst Degn graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was a member of the Innviertel artists' guild . Ernst Degn taught at the BORG Innsbruck until his retirement . Watercolor painting had a special place in Ernst Degn’s work and especially the many views of the town and landscapes from the Innviertel , from North and South Tyrol .

Painting of the Holy Trinity in the Trinity Chapel in Elmen

1940 Sgraffito on a late home style block of flats in Gabelsbergerstrasse in Innsbruck-Pradl
around 1950 with Helmut Rehm frescoes in the hospital church hl. Spirit in Matrei am Brenner
1960 sgraffito St. Magnus at the tower of the field chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary near Oberstockach in Bach
1962 Fresco Maria with child at the Mariahilfkapelle in Seesumpf in Bach
1962 Painting of the Holy Trinity in the field chapel of the Holy Trinity in Elmen
1971 Sgraffito Maria with child at the parish hall in Boden in Pfafflar
no year war memorial in front of the Bach parish church

Ernst Degn. Watercolors, tempera, drawings. Exhibition catalog, Upper Austrian State Museum , Linz 1964.
Watercolors from Tyrol. Illustrated book, designed by Hedda Degn, Innsbruck 1997.
The South. Watercolors. Ernst Degn (1904-1990). Exhibition catalog, Stadtmuseum Innsbruck 2009, Schlossgalerie Schärding 2010, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-901886-40-9 .

Franz Engl : Ernst Degn , in: Yearbook of the Innviertler Künstlergilde 1990/91, Ried im Innkreis, p. 130
Franz Engl: The Schärdinger Künstlerkreis , in: Yearbook of the Innviertler Künstlergilde 1966/67, Ried im Innkreis, pp. 5–28, u. a. to Ernst Degn