Ferdinand Andri

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Ferdinand Andri: Archangel Michael on the facade of the Zacherlhaus in Vienna 1., Brandstätte 6, 1903–1905

Ferdinand Andri (born March 1, 1871 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs , Lower Austria ; † May 19, 1956 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Ferdinand Andri was born the son of a gold maker. From 1884 to 1886 he did an apprenticeship with the wood carver and altar maker Johann Kepplinger in Ottensheim near Linz. He attended the state trade school in Innsbruck. Then he studied from 1886 to 1893 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Julius Victor Berger , Eduard von Lichtenfels and August Eisenmenger . From 1892 to 1894 he attended the Grand Ducal Art School with Caspar Ritter and Claus Meyer . He went on study trips to Italy, France, England and North America.

In 1897 he married the painter Charlotte Hampel (1863–1945), who was eight years his senior .

Andri was a member of the Vienna Secession from 1899 to 1909 and its president in 1905/06. During this time he worked on the Art Nouveau magazine Ver Sacrum . When he joined the Deutscher Werkbund in 1912 , he was already an established landscape , genre and portrait painter and had also gained general recognition as a lithographer and sculptor . Nevertheless, when he was proposed as a teacher for the Vienna Academy in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand , who had no interest in modern art movements, turned him down.

In the second year of the First World War , in 1915, Andri submitted an application for admission as a war painter to the Austro-Hungarian War Press Office , which was granted on September 13, 1915. First he was sent to Belgrade , where he spent November and December 1915 painting. In 1916 he traveled to the Bay of Cattaro as an artistic reporter , then Montenegro and then Albania . In the same year he came to the Ortler area as a war painter , and he also captured numerous impressions in the Dolomites . When he was stationed at the 10th Army Command of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Tyrol in 1918 , he took the opportunity to do portrait studies of participants in a mountain guide course at the Regensburger Hütte. Several poster designs for the benefit of the Children's Fund, the War Invalid Foundation and for war exhibitions, in which he benefited from his experience as a graphic artist for the Vienna Secession, were also created during this time. In 1918, at the end of the war, Andri moved to St. Pölten , at the same time he was given a teaching position at the Vienna Academy, where he taught until 1939. Andri was a specialist music advisor in the National Socialist German Cultural Association . He was also a co-founder of the Austrian Werkbund , which was aimed at reviving craftsmanship.

At the Vienna Academy he headed a master school from 1923 to 1929 and a systemized master school from 1929 to 1939. 1923-26 and 1931-33 was Andri vice-rector, 1938-39 after the connection of Austria to the German Reich Chairman of the supervisory commissioner of the Academy. In 1939 he was retired and since that year has been a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna . From 1939 to 1945 Andri directed a master school for fresco painting at the academy. Andri was on the so-called gottbegnadeten list of Joseph Goebbels listed as an important painter of the Third Reich.

In 1950 Ferdinand Andri handed over all works still in his possession to the city of St. Pölten, which set up a Ferdinand Andri Museum (today part of the City Museum). In 1956 the artist died in Vienna and was buried in St. Pölten.

Awards

Works (selection)

Ferdinand Andri's works are characterized by traditional rural and religious motifs, which he designed decorative and colorful. He also made numerous portraits. His particular endeavor was fresco painting and, associated with it, a renewal of church art, for which he also resorted to wood sculpture and mosaic.

  • Portrait Moriz Gallia , 1901
  • Slovaken , exhibited in 1902 at the German National Art Exhibition in the Düsseldorf Exhibition Palace
  • Mosaics above the high altar and baptismal font with the half-length figure of John the Baptist made of gilded wood , 1903, Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Wien auf der Schmelz (Vienna)
  • Statue of the Archangel Michael made of chased metal , 1903–1905, Zacherlhaus in Vienna
  • Pictures of the apostles , 1908, Neuottakringer Church in Vienna
  • Painting for the trade fair palace
  • Portrait of the artist's wife, Charlotte Andri-Hampel (St. Pölten, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum , inv. No. A 24/79), 1911, oil on canvas, 40.3 × 40.3 cm
  • Almwiese (Vienna, Leopold Museum , Inv. No. 383), 1913, oil on canvas
  • Ferdinandshöhe - Mountain Landscape (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 569), 1916, oil on cardboard
  • The hand grenade launcher (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ), 1918, tempera on canvas, 253 × 179 cm
  • The angel raises the dead on the battlefield (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum), oil on cardboard, 35.5 × 48 cm
  • Captured Serbs before being transported (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum), colored chalk on cardboard
  • Illustrations for August Kopisch poems, Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna - Leipzig

Paintings by Ferdinand Andris are mainly in museums in Vienna and Lower Austria. A larger holdings are in the collections of the Vienna Army History Museum .

literature

  • August Kopisch , - (pictures, book decorations), Hans Fraungruber (Red.): Selected poems . Gerlach's youth library, Volume 13, ZDB -ID 2449872-5 . Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1904.
  • Exhibition and festival guide for the 400th anniversary of the liberation from Turkish distress in Waidhofen an der Ybbs August 13-21, 1932 . Commercial press, Vienna 1932.
  • Adolf Bassaraba: The painter Ferdinand Andri . Niederdonau / Ahnengau des Führer, Volume 46, Culture and Fine Arts, ZDB -ID 32505-3 . St. Pöltner Zeitungsverlagsgesellschaft, St. Pölten 1941.
  • - (Ill.): Ferdinand Andri art exhibition, open from June 9 to October 15, 1957 (…) . Self-published by the city of Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Waidhofen an der Ybbs 1954.
  • - (Ill.): Art exhibition Ferdinand Andri and his school. 8. Special exhibition in the Karmeliterhof, Prandtauerstraße 2. Self-published by the St. Pölten Cultural Office, St. Pölten 1956.
  • Karl Gutkas : Art exhibition Ferdinand Andri and his school. 8th special exhibition in the Karmeliterhof, 7. – 22. April 1956 . Magistrate of the City of St. Pölten Cultural Office, St. Pölten 1956.
  • Karl Gutkas: Professor Ferdinand Andri 85 years old . Culture reports from Lower Austria, Volume 1956.1956, ZDB -ID 331191-0 . Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Vienna 1956, p. 22 f.
  • - (Ill.): Art exhibition Ferdinand Andri . Self-published by the Kulturamt Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Waidhofen an der Ybbs 1957.
  • Otto Hiehammer: Waidhofen an der Ybbs honors Ferdinand Andri. Memorial exhibition. Culture reports from Lower Austria, Volume 1957.1957, ZDB-ID 331191-0. Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Vienna 1957, p. 55.
  • Oskar Matulla : Ferdinand Andri and Lassing . Culture reports from Lower Austria, Volume 1960.1960, ZDB-ID 331191-0. Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Vienna 1960, p. 84 f.
  • - (Ill.), Karl Gutkas (exhib., Catalog), Leopold Schmid (exhib., Catalog): Ferdinand Andri. 1871-1956. Painter, sculptor, graphic artist and teacher. Catalog of the exhibition of the cultural office of the city of St. Pölten during the St. Pölten Culture and Festival Weeks 1971 . Culture Office St. Pölten, St. Pölten 1971.
  • - (Ill.), Bernhard Peithner-Lichtenfels (Red.): Ferdinand Andri . (Exhibition catalog). Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna 1980.
  • Liselotte Popelka (Ed.): From "Hurray" to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . (Catalog). Army History Museum, Vienna 1981.
  • - (Ill.), Peter Weninger (Red.): Ferdinand Andri. 1871-1956. Exhibition by the cultural department of the Lower Austrian provincial government (…) Maretsch Castle, Bozen, October 7th to 30th, 1982, Bad Vöslau Castle, November 13th, 1982 to January 9th, 1983 . Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Museum , Volume NF 126, ZDB -ID 968582-0 . Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Department III / 2 - Culture Department, Vienna 1983.
  • Peter Weninger, Martin Suppan (arrangement), Elisabeth Rehulka (translator): Wachaumaler. Wachau motifs: A Danube landscape in pictures from the 19th and 20th centuries . Galerie Suppan , Vienna 1987.
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Andri Ferdinand. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 102 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Wilhelm: Introduction to the "Toy and Work Show" by the art educator Prof. Karl Wilhelm . In: Waidhofner Heimatblätter , Volume 18.1992, ZDB -ID 540475-7 . Musealverein Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Waidhofen an der Ybbs 1992, p. 30 ff.
  • Thomas Pulle: Ferdinand Andri. Notes on his early work . In: -: sensuality and temptation. Art Nouveau and Secession art from Andri to Olbrich. Special exhibition, May 9 to November 2, 1997 . Kulturverwaltung St. Pölten, St. Pölten 1997, pp. 11–20.
  • Beatrix Bastl: "Three painters - two wars": Ferdinand Andri, Erich Erler and Carl Fahringer . A special exhibition in the Wiener Neustadt city archive . In: Our home . Volume 69.1998, ZDB -ID 510114-1 . Association for regional studies of Lower Austria, St. Pölten 1998, pp. 146–149.
  • Thomas Pulle: "... that's how he can do it, ... the tremendous tension, one might almost say, to express the majesty of war". A few remarks on Ferdinand Andri's work during the First World War . In: St. Pöltner Regenbogen 1998. Cultural Yearbook of the State Capital St. Pölten . Cultural administration of the state capital St. Pölten, St. Pölten 1998, ZDB -ID 1498145-2 , pp. 13-21.
  • Ilse Krumpöck: From the clouds to the home plaice. The war painter Ferdinand Andri . In: Viribus Unitis. Annual report of the Army History Museum 2006 . Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna 2007, ZDB -ID 2114718-8 , pp. 19–52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Franz Kaindl : Painting in Lower Austria 1918-1988. Lower Austrian Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten 1988, pp. 273–274.
  2. ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 178.
  3. ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 11
  4. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: From the clouds to the home plaice. The war painter Ferdinand Andri. In: Annual Report of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum 2006. Vienna, 2007, pp. 20f.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 .
  6. ^ Ferdinand Andri exhibition at the Lower Austria Museum: An Era of Peasant Painting . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 6, 1982, p. 13 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ Paul Clemen: The German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf . In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . Issue 23, 1902, p. 532 (digitized version)
  8. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 69.

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personal data
SURNAME Andri, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Waidhofen an der Ybbs
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1956
Place of death Vienna