Ernst Huber (painter, Austria)

Ernst Huber (born July 15, 1895 in Vienna , † September 26, 1960 ibid) was an Austrian graphic artist and landscape painter . He was a member of the Zinkenbach painters' colony .

Life

Huber completed a graphic training as a typesetter in the cooperative book printing company in Vienna. Between 1910 and 1914 Huber practiced his learned profession as a typesetter , in 1915 worked as a lithographer and at that time also took part in a course for ornamental drawing at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Otto Prutscher and Karl Witzmann . After the First World War , Huber became an artistic employee of the book, art and lithographic printing company F. Rollinger, for which he created, among other things, cassettes and book covers.

As a painter, Huber was self-taught. He exhibited his first paintings in the art community of Vienna in the Palm House in the Burggarten in Vienna in autumn 1919, where she Josef Hoffmann stood out, the Huber through the mediation of the sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi finally to the group of artists of the art show brought. Here he came into contact with the already established artists Herbert Boeckl , Anton Faistauer , Oskar Kokoschka , Anton Kolig and Franz Wiegele . In 1920 Huber became a member of the Sonderbund and in 1932 of the Vienna Secession . Its initially dark, dull tones lightened over the years and turned into bright, intense colors.

Since the beginning of the 1920s, Ernst Huber's circle of friends included Josef Dobrowsky , Georg Merkel , Ferdinand Kitt , Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel and Sergius Pauser . A popular meeting place for this group of artists became a country house acquired by Franz von Zülow in the Auerbach district of the Hirschbach im Mühlkreis district from 1929 onwards . The artists also met in the Salzkammergut in the Zinkenbach painters' colony .

Between 1939 and 1944, Huber painted the completed sections of the Reichsautobahn for a planned major traveling exhibition on behalf of General Inspector Fritz Todt .

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In Huber's work, landscape images are in the foreground, the motifs come from Austria, especially from Salzburg, as well as from the places of his travels that took him to Dalmatia (1923), the Near East (1925), Tunisia, South America ( 1938) and to the United States (1952).

In his oil paintings as well as in his watercolors he remained attached to visible nature, to the representational. Huber, who also created reverse glass and tile paintings as well as numerous book illustrations, exhibited at many domestic and foreign exhibitions and received the Austrian State Prize for Painting in 1935. The examination of the paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder led to Huber above all a particular predilection for multi-figured scenes, for example in his 1930 painting “Ice Skating Pleasure”.

His works can be found in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere , the Museum Leopold and the Graphic Collection Albertina in Vienna as well as in the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz and the Lower Austrian State Museum in Sankt Pölten .

Honors

1935: Austrian State Prize for Painting

literature

Ruth Kaltenegger (Ed.): Prelude. Postscript to the summer 2001 exhibition. Museum Association Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie, St. Gilgen 2002, ISBN 3-9501524-3-1

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personal data
SURNAME	Huber, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1960
Place of death	Vienna