Ferdinand Kitt

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Sgraffito Alte Donau (1951/1952) by Ferdinand Kitt

Ferdinand Kitt (born November 22, 1887 in Vienna ; † February 5, 1961 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Kitt studied with Rudolf Bacher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1907 to 1914, when he made a trip to Italy with him and with Josef Dobrowsky . In 1919 he became a member of the Vienna Secession , of which he was president from 1926 to 1929. The Zinkenbach painters' colony initiated by Kitt existed from 1927 to 1938. From 1928 to 1947 he worked as a professor at the Vienna Women's Academy . During the war years in which the Secession was dissolved, he joined the Künstlerhaus Wien . When the Vienna Secession was re-established in 1946, Kitt was once again a member. After the war he left his destroyed studio in Vienna and finally moved to Gschwand am Wolfgangsee . Kitt mainly worked in the areas of portrait , genre and landscape painting and as a draftsman for tapestries and sgraffiti . His style has been called moderate expressionism .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Kitt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Ferdinand Kitt in the database Gedächtnis des Landes for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich ), accessed on June 15, 2010