Franz Glaubacker
Franz Glaubacker (born June 20, 1896 in Sarajevo , † 1974 in Linz ) was an Upper Austrian portrait painter and is one of the representatives of late impressionism .
Live and act
Glaubacker was born the son of an Austrian railway official and spent his childhood following his father's transfer to Linz in the Upper Austrian capital, where he completed elementary and community school as well as a model carpentry training.
In 1911 he was gilder - apprentice with his uncle in Regensburg , was in 1915 for military service during Linzerhaus Regiment moved in and returned from the Russian front in 1916 severely wounded as a disabled veteran back.
Until 1919 he worked again as an assistant barrel painter in the gilding plant in Regensburg and since he felt called to be a painter, he successfully completed the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl .
Art trips, which rounded off his studies, took him through Germany, Holland and Italy. From 1925 he worked as a freelance artist in Linz, portraying a number of personalities and numerous, mostly Linz private individuals, made a name for himself as a documenter of the Altlinzer scene and worked for the Upper Austrian Art Association and from the mid-1950s as a founding member of the Mühlviertler Artist guild with. He participated in the respective exhibitions for more than thirty years. He was one of the most original figures on the Linz art scene since the interwar period.
In 1997 the Mühlviertel artists' guild showed a memorial exhibition in their gallery in the Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof, for which a documentary structured catalog created by his son Herbert was published.
His picture Hitler on the balcony of the Linz town hall became well known and reproduced hundreds of times . On the occasion of Linz 09 (Linz as the Führer’s cultural capital, art and National Socialism in Linz and Upper Austria), works by Franz Glaubacker were also shown in the exhibition in the Castle Museum .
Honors
- In 1977, in the St. Magdalena district of Linz, Glaubackerstraße was named after him.
literature
- Otto Wutzel : One of the quiet in the country. We congratulate the painter Franz Glaubacker on his 65th birthday , in: Linzer Volksblatt 1961, No. 140
- Walter Pretzmann: The portrait (about Franz Glaubacker) in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter, year 1, 1961, issue 3, p. 16.
- Walter Pretzmann: Franz Glaubacker , in: Tagblatt 1963, No. 149
- Rudolf Pfann: Franz Glaubacker, academic painter , in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter, Jg. 6, 1966, issue 5/6, p. 74f, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
- Rudolf Walter Litschel: A painter with every nerve, with every pulse - for the 70th birthday of Franz Glaubacker , in: Oberösterreichischer Kulturbericht, vol. 20, 1966
- Rudolf Pfann: A life for art - On the 75th birthday of Franz Glaubacker , in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter, year 11, 1971, issue 2, pp. 39–41.
- Upper Austrian cultural report 1974: Franz Glaubacker died , Linz 1974
- Georg Wacha: The work of Franz Glaubacker , in: Linz aktiv, No. 139, 1996, Linz cultural, p. 75f.
- Herbert Glaubacker: Franz Glaubacker - A Life for Art , published on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday as well as a memorial exhibition in the Galerie Zülow Group in the Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof
Literature by Franz Glaubacker
- Memories of Franz von Zülow , in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter, vol. 4, issue 1/2, p. 3f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brigitte Heinzl: The painting collection of the 20th century in the art history department of the Upper Austrian State Museum Upper Austrian Museum Association - Society for Regional Studies (PDF; 12.0 MB)
- ↑ Walter Pretzmann: The portrait ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 357 kB)
- ↑ Brief portrait of Franz Glaubacker at Galerie Seidler ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Upper Austrian news, text archive March 8, 1997
- ↑ History of the Zülow Group ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Portraits
- ↑ Linz image problems
- ↑ Linz09 (PDF; 35 kB)
- ↑ www.linz.at Glaubackerstraße
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glaubacker, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Upper Austrian portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarajevo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1974 |
| Place of death | Linz |