Felix Albrecht Harta

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Felix Albrecht Harta (born July 2, 1884 in Budapest , † November 27, 1967 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Born in Budapest, Harta grew up in Vienna , where he initially studied architecture at the Technical University . In 1905 he went to Munich and switched to painting . His teacher at the academy was Hugo von Habermann . Years of intensive art study and copying of old masters followed (1908 Paris , where he also exhibited at the Salon d'Automne , and Brittany ; 1909 Spain ; 1910 and 1911 Belgium ; 1912 Italy ; 1913 Paris).

Harta then lived in Vienna and took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . He served as a clerk with the coach replacement division No. 16 in Mostar when he applied for admission as a war painter to the Austro-Hungarian war press headquarters, supported by Gustav Klimt . Members of the art group since April 1917, he went to the Russian front in autumn 1917. In 1918 he worked repeatedly on the Italian theater of war , especially with the air troops of the 6th, 10th and 11th armies, where he made numerous pilot portraits and aviation topics.

After the end of the war he stayed in Salzburg until 1923 , where he and Anton Faistauer founded the artists' association Der Wassermann in 1919 and became its president. Harta was also involved in founding the Salzburg Festival . In 1921 he received the Great Silver State Medal. Back in Vienna from 1923 to 1926, he made another trip to Paris in 1926/27 and received the diploma of honor at the International Exhibition in Bordeaux. Further honors were the Austrian State Prize in 1929 and the City of Vienna Prize of Honor in 1934. From 1928 to 1935 Harta was a member of the Hagenbund . From 1939 to 1950 Harta went into exile in England, where he taught at a college. He then returned to Austria, where he lived in Salzburg until his death.

In his first marriage he was with Elisabeth Herrmann (born April 23, 1888 in Vienna as the daughter of Josef H. and Helene, née Beer, died in Salzburg, December 8, 1959) from February 22, 1914, his second marriage to Marg. Maria Josefa Maximiliane Baillou (StA Salzburg 595) married. The first marriage resulted in two daughters. Eva Harta (Vienna 1914–1997), married Wick, emigrated and lived as a graphic artist in the USA. Gusti Wolf also grew up at Hartas for a while.

power

In his early years, Felix Albrecht Harta was familiar with the artists Oskar Kokoschka , Egon Schiele and Albert Paris Gütersloh and was close to their Expressionism . He was also on friendly terms with Gustav Klimt and recommended him to rent his last studio in Feldmühlgasse, on the site of today's “ Klimt Villa ”. Harta's later works, on the other hand, which are always representational, most likely point in the direction of post-impressionism. His subjects were mainly landscapes and still lifes , but also portraiture and genre scenes .

Works

  • Jardin du Luxembourg (Vienna, Leopold Museum , inv.no.69), 1908, oil on cardboard
  • Airfield of the Fliegerkompanie No. 60 near Feltre (Northern Italy) (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ), 1918, crayons on paper, 29.5 × 44.4 cm
  • Fliegerwetter (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum), 1918, pen and ink with colored chalk on paper, 36.4 × 51 cm
  • Burning airplane (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum), 1918, pen and ink with colored chalk on paper, 36.4 × 51 cm
  • Garden (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), around 1920, oil on canvas
  • Cagnes, Southern France (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), around 1927, oil on canvas
  • Landscape Vienna (Switzerland, private collection), oil on canvas

literature

  • Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flies 90/71", catalog for the exhibition, Volume II: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flies 90/71", catalog for the exhibition, Volume II: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971, p. 28 f.
  2. ^ Hugo Portisch, Georg Markus: Between us said: encounters with contemporary witnesses . Amalthea Signum Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-902998-58-3 ( google.at [accessed on September 13, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Harta, Felix Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES deer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1967
Place of death Salzburg