Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg

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The apron of the Hermada during the 11th Isonzo Battle (HGM).

Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg (born June 10, 1886 in Bad Gleichenberg ; † August 16, 1940 there ) was an Austrian landscape , still life and portrait painter .

Life

Gruber-Gleichenberg was originally a teacher, but trained part-time at the State Art School in Graz and subsequently studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe as well as at the Munich Academy and in Dachau under Ludwig Dill . Study trips took him to Germany , Italy , Dalmatia and Corsica . From 1917 he was a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna , from 1926 he used the double name formed after his place of birth.

When the First World War broke out, Gruber-Gleichenberg was in Belgium. He returned to Graz and, as a one-year volunteer, moved to the Isonzo Front in the fall of 1916 to Infantry Regiment No. 47. He captured the battles of the regiment and its soldiers, who received awards, in several watercolors and drawings . The regiment stood at the front until the end of the war and so the artist also made the breakthrough to the Piave in 1918 . In 1917 he became the militia - Sergeant promoted and received the Bronze Medal of Valor . His regiment held the highly contested positions on Monte Asolone ( Brenta Group ) until the last days of October 1918 .

Gruber-Gleichenberg never applied for admission as a war painter to the Austro-Hungarian war press quarters , he worked directly on the battle front as a "regimental painter ". Of the more than 100 landscape pictures and more than 80 portraits, many were used to illustrate the history of the regiment. A publication was published in 1932 on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of its establishment.

Gruber's main artistic interest was the landscape, its changes through the seasons and its climatic influences, such as that of the local area around the health resort of Gleichenberg or in the motifs in the Graz field. But he also painted the city of Graz several times. He captured his views of landscapes on his numerous travels through Austria, Germany, Italy ( Chioggia ), Dalmatia ( Split ), Hungary, France and Corsica in numerous oil paintings and watercolors. In the last years of his life he was drawn to the Baltic Sea. He visited Stralsund and Hiddensee in 1937. His artistic interest was also in the Styrian and Salzburg mountains. Gruber-Gleichenberg only devoted himself to human portraits in exceptional cases, such as in the case of private commissions for child portraits. Another area of ​​responsibility for him from the end of 1930 was the industrial image.

Recognitions

  • 1918 Silver Medal from the City of Graz
  • 1986 Memorial stone in the spa gardens in Bad Gleichenberg
  • 1924 Austrian State Prize
  • 1926 gold medal from the city of Graz

Works (selection)

Illustrations

  • 70 watercolors and drawings. In: Ludwig Freiherr von Vogelsang: The Styrian Infantry Regiment No. 47 in World War. For the 250th year of establishment of the regiment. with 70 watercolors and drawings by the academic painter Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg, with original photographs and 50 sketches by Major General d. R. Maximilian Traunsteiner von Trauhorst, Leykam, Graz 1932, 800 pages.

Exhibitions

  • 1979 Drinking and foyer of the sanatorium in Bad Gleichenberg, introductory lecture by Wilfried Skreiner
  • 1979 New Gallery Graz
  • 1998 St. Leonhard Gallery in Graz

literature

  • Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg 1886-1940. Exhibition catalog, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1979.
  • Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg 1886-1940. Exhibition catalog, Galerie St. Leonhard, Graz 1998.
  • Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918. Vienna 1981.
  • Anatol P. Fuksas (author, ed., Designer): Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg. 1886-1940. Academic painter. Landscapes still life portraits. With an essay by Christa Steinle , illustrated book, Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas 2002, ISBN 3-7059-0141-9 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981, p. 44
personal data
SURNAME Gruber-Gleichenberg, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landscape, still life and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Gleichenberg
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1940
Place of death Bad Gleichenberg