Franz Čižek

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Franz Čižek (born June 12, 1865 in Leitmeritz ( Austrian Empire ); died December 17, 1946 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter, designer and art teacher.

Photo by Otto Skall (1932)

Life

Cizek studied from 1885 to 1895 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler and Josef Mathias Trenkwald . From 1897 to 1903 he taught drawing at the Schottenfelder Realschule and at his own art school. From 1903 he taught at the Vienna School of Applied Arts . Cizek became internationally known through his youth art classes, whose exhibitions were also shown in England, the USA, South Africa and India from the 1920s.

His grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery
Christmas (without year)

literature

  • Friedrich C. Heller: Cizek, Franz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 19, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22759-0 , p. 337.
  • Franz Cizek in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  • Maximilian Kaiser:  Cizek, Franz . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  • Wilhelm Viola: Child Art and Franz Cizek . Reynal and Hitchcock, New York 1936.
  • Leopold W. Rochowanski: The Viennese youth art. Franz Cizek and his foster home . Frick, Vienna 1946 (2nd extended edition of the publication Thirty Years of Youth Art )
  • Richard Meister:  Cižek, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 256 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Cizek. Art education pioneer (1865-1946). Exhibition catalog. Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, June 20 to November 3, 1985.
  • Vienna around 1900. Art and culture. Exhibition catalog. Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1985, ISBN 978-3-854-47097-7
  • Maximilian Kaiser: The step into space - sculptures and architectural utopias of the avant-garde in Vienna in the interwar period. Diploma thesis University of Vienna, Vienna 2010 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Čižek, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, designer and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Leitmeritz (Bohemia)
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1946
Place of death Vienna