Eugene of Tarnóczy
Eugen August von Tarnóczy (born April 17, 1886 in Munich , † February 19, 1978 in Traunstein ) was a German officer , pilot and painter .
In 1910, Lieutenant Eugen von Tarnóczy was one of the first four German officers to learn to fly at the Provisional Military Aviation School in Döberitz . He completed his training on August 30, 1910 and was one of the " Old Eagles ", the airmen who received their license before the First World War . He was then appointed flight instructor; Among his students was the later field pilot Ernst Canter . On 17 October 1910 he made in an Albatros - Biplane the first military cross-country flight from Berlin-Johannisthal to Döberitz , 600 meters altitude reached and needed 26 minutes for the distance of 40 kilometers. He was the first to receive the pilot commemorative badge .
Even in Döberitz, von Tarnóczy devoted himself to painting: "The birch grove around which people flew at that time, I, who had been an artist before, often painted at all times of the day."
In 1912 von Tarnóczy had to give up flying due to a serious illness - according to his own statement "as a result of a service injury". He moved to Traunstein and worked there as a mountain painter. In 1937 he painted three paintings on behalf of Deutsche Lufthansa , depicting Carl August von Gablenz's flight over the Hindu Kush , the so-called Pamir flight .
Works (selection)
- “Gathering Thunderstorm at Chiemsee”, oil painting
- "Winter sun in the Chiemgau Alps", oil painting
- "Flight of the D-Anoy over the Pamir Mountains", 1937 (three paintings for Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin, 1938)
- "German Alpine Road", oil painting
literature
- Tarnóczy, Eugen von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 447 .
- Horst Ludwig: Munich painter in the 19th / 20th centuries Century. Volume 6 born 1871–1900, Bruckmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7654-1806-4 .
- Peter Supf: The book of German flight history. Volume 1. Drei Brunnen Verlag, Stuttgart 1956.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Old Eagles. Front aviator, accessed on March 21, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d Willi Hackenberger: The old eagles. Pioneers in German aviation . JF Lehmanns, Munich 1960, p. 42 f .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarnóczy, Eugen von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tarnóczy, Eugen August von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aviation pioneer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1978 |
| Place of death | Traunstein |