Ferdinand Bilger

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Ferdinand Bilger (born April 6, 1903 in Vienna ; † March 29, 1961 ) was an Austrian chemist and painter .

Live and act

family

He is the son of the Graz historian and university professor Ferdinand Bilger (1875 to 1949), brother of Margret Bilger and cousin of Elisabeth Charlotte Mattèy . In 1933 he married Maria Biljan-Bilger , from whom he later separated. He met his second wife, Rudja, in exile in France. With her he had a son Sebastian. He married his third wife, Emma Priska, in the 1950s, and they had a son Thimo (1956-1998). He died of suicide on March 29, 1961 .

Education, scientific activity

Bilger studied chemistry at the University of Graz from 1922. In 1925 he undertook a. a. traveled to East Africa with Walter Ritter and crossed Abyssinia . From 1927 to 1929 he worked scientifically at the medical-chemical institute with Fritz Pregl . In 1929 he took up a job as a chemist in a sugar factory on Java. From 1930 to 1937 he worked as a scientific assistant in the field of microchemistry and vitamin research with Wilhelm Halden at the University of Graz. Photo reports and literary works were also created during this time.

Resistance movement, Spanish Civil War, stay in France

Bilger and his circle of friends saw themselves in opposition to the Austrofascist regime and met in artist circles in Graz and Vienna, where they dealt with the February fights in 1934 and the consequences. One of the meeting points was Bilger's apartment on Morellenfeldgasse in Graz. Bilger took part in the uprising of the Republican Protection Association in February 1934 and was therefore imprisoned.

In 1937 he joined the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War together with Charlotte Mattèy , where he worked as the head of the hygiene service ( Centrale Sanitaire Suisse Internationale) with the rank of lieutenant . In 1939, he came as a refugee to the South of France in the communities Argelès and Gurs , where he was one of research at Pasteur -Institut the University of Bordeaux pursued. After another internment, he worked in the laboratory of the oil refinery in Bordeaux . From 1940, under the influence of Parisian artists, he devoted himself to artisanal and intensive painting activities in Agen ( Département Lot-et-Garonne ) and took part in several exhibitions in southern France.

Artistic activity in Austria

Bilger had been expatriated due to his service in the Spanish civil war and was only naturalized again in 1947 at the instigation of his father. Bilger returned to Austria in October 1947, initially living as a freelance artist in Vienna and from 1951 in Graz, where he became a member of the Graz Secession and the Vienna Art Club .

His artistic work includes oil paintings , watercolors , colored chalk and gouaches . He was one of the first in Austria to produce graphics using screen printing on fabrics and tiles.

Initially influenced by the culture of Java, through Parisian influences, he came under the spell of Fauvism and through still figurative and landscape elements to abstraction .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Entry Ferdinand Bilger, Austrian painter , in the Killy literary lexicon , authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated (ed.), 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimo Halbrainer, Martin F. Polaschek : Uprising, Putsch and Dictatorship: The Year 1934 in Styria, Styrian State Archives (publisher), Graz, 2007, ISBN 978-3-901938-19-1
  2. ^ CV Ferdinand Bilger , in: Web presence of the Remixx gallery
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Bilger, in: Web presence of Galerie Kunst & Handel ( Memento from September 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Bilger, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1961