Ernst Eisenmayer

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Ernst Eisenmayer (born September 18, 1920 in Vienna ; died March 27, 2018 there ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor .

Life

Ernst Eisenmayer grew up in simple circumstances in Vienna. At the age of 18 he was arrested during the unsuccessful escape from Vienna after the annexation of Austria in 1938, deported and interned in the Dachau concentration camp . A short film by Frances Lloyd about the early work of Eisenmayer, which was shown in the London Jewish Museum of Art in 2009 as part of the exhibition “Forced Journeys, Artists in Exile in Britain 1933-45” , also contains a description of Eisenmayer about his deportation at the Central Station in Munich:

“I looked around and tried to find whether anybody would show any sign of sympathy. There was no one. And this is still one of my worst experiences, worse than all the insults and hitting and so on. There was not a single person that showed any sympathy or any interest. They turned away. "

“I looked around trying to see if anyone would show any sign of sympathy. There was nobody there. And that's still one of my worst experiences, worse than the insults and the beating and so on. There wasn't a single person showing sympathy or interest. They turned away. "

In 1939, Eisenmayer managed to escape to England after his release. From 1940 he was taken to five different British internment camps, including Onchan on the Isle of Man , where he made objects for camp exhibitions and wrote for the camp newspaper. His drawing "Violinist at Onchan" made there was later issued as a motif for an Isle of Man postage stamp. Later he worked temporarily mainly as a toolmaker; From 1944 he first exhibited in an exhibition on Austrian art in exile and studied art at Camberwell College of Arts in 1946/47 . In addition to paintings in his early days, he later made sculptures and worked with welded steel, bronze and stone. The curator Rachel Dickinson described his works in the exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Art as “the greatest aesthetic revelation”.

In 1975 Eisenmayer left England and lived in Italy until 1988 and then in Amsterdam until 1996 . He temporarily returned to Austria and lived in the Maimonides Center, a Jewish retirement home in Vienna.

Autobiography

  • A Strange Haircut , A round about story of leaving Vienna 1938/39, Amsterdam 2008.

literature

  • David Buckman: Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 , Art Dictionaries, Bristol, 1998, p. 246
  • Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz (Ed.): About the Dignity of Man - Ernst Eisenmayer, Leben und Werk , Jewish Museum, Vienna 2002. (exhibition catalog)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Eisenmayer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Artist Ernst Eisenmayer, 97 years old, died in Vienna on derstandard.de on March 28, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Eisenmayer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Museum Online, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.museumonline.at  
  4. ↑ a b Long lost artwork of Holocaust survivor discovered . Kingston University, April 22, 2009
  5. ^ IOM internment art features on new Manx stamps . BBC UK, 5th August 2010
personal data
SURNAME Eisenmayer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2018
Place of death Vienna