Ferdinand Kruis

Location of the Fliegerkompanie No. 30 near Chernivtsi (HGM).

Ferdinand Kruis (born April 25, 1869 in Písek , Bohemia , † January 17, 1944 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter and illustrator .

Life

Kruis studied at the Vienna Art Academy from 1885 , his teachers were Siegmund L'Allemand , Franz Rumpler and August Eisenmenger . In 1888 he won a gold medal. He initially worked as a portraitist and under the pseudonym "Lorenz" as an illustrator for magazines such as Die Bombe . Study trips took him to Italy , Switzerland , Germany , Holland , Denmark and Poland . From 1898 to 1938 he was a member of the Vienna Secession , furthermore he was a member of the cooperative of visual artists Vienna. In 1902 he founded a painting school with Franz Hohenberger in Vienna, which had to be closed in 1916.

During the First World War , on January 12, 1916, Kruis, who served in the Landsturm , was accepted as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian War Press Office , where he remained until the end of the war. He worked on the Italian front in South Tyrol and on the Isonzo , and subsequently also on the Russian and Romanian theater of war. In 1917 he was briefly assigned to the Imperial and Royal Army Museum , and in the summer of 1918 he worked in Lublin 's Military Generalgouvernement .

Exhibitions and motifs

• From 1894 to 1906 he sent mostly exhibitions in Prague
• From 1898 to 1938 his works were exhibited in the Winer Secession
• From 1914 to 1918 he made posters among other things as a war painter

His impressionistic inclinations encouraged his study trips. His repertoire ranged from fine ivory miniatures to large oil portraits.

Works (selection)

• Sarntheiner farmers , evening at Chiemsee , interior on the island of Marken Österreichische Galerie, Vienna
• Music lesson 1902, painting school at Kohlmarkt 1903 Dutch. Girls 1903 and 1905
• Trotting in the Krieau , view from the Freyung , Guaschen , Bavarian girls, 1906
• Location of the Fliegerkompanie No. 30 near Chernivtsi. 1917, oil on canvas, 59 × 86.5 cm ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna)

literature

• Kruis, Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 7-8 .
• Heinz Schöny: Kruis, Ferdinand . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation . tape 4 , volume 19: Knolz Joseph J. – Lange Wilhelm . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1968, p. 302 , doi : 10.1553 / 0x002825d5 .
• Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): Flying 90/71. Exhibition catalog, Volume II: Flying in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Kruis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 182.
2. ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum. Vienna 1923, p. 13.
3. ↑ 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. 33 f.