Franz Horst

Franz Horst (born June 12, 1862 in Vienna , † March 24, 1950 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian portrait , landscape and military painter .

Life

Franz Horst was the son of the drawing teacher and Führich student Oswald Horst and grew up in Krems . He attended the department for ornamental painting at the Vienna School of Applied Arts , his teachers there were Friedrich Sturm and Michael Rieser . He later studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Christian Griepenkerl , Carl Wurzinger and August Eisenmenger . From 1887 Horst worked in Vienna- Döbling and from 1896 mainly in Klosterneuburg and exhibited in the local art association for decades. At the anniversary exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1908 he was represented with the oil painting Klosterneuburg Abbey in the Snow . In 1932 he was awarded the Silver State Medal.

In 1899 he was commissioned by the Austro-Hungarian Army to paint scenes of a maneuver that had been held . These paintings are now in the Vienna Army History Museum .

Grave of Franz Horst

Franz Horst was buried in the Upper City Cemetery in Klosterneuburg.

Works (selection)

• Old Marterl near Kobenzl , oil, 1892
• Surf , Oil, 1898
• Kuk field artillery at a target practice in the field , 1899, oil on canvas, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
• Forest pond in Hintersdorf near Hadersfeld , pastel, 1900
• Sea Sermon , Oil, 1910
• For the Eucharistic Congress , Oil, 1913, Kirche am Leopoldsberg
• Going to church on the Seiseralm , 1914
• From the Donauau near Klosterneuburg , 1924
• Grin with Roman Bridge , 1936

literature

• Horst, Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 429.
• Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century , Vienna 1973, Volume 2, p. 75.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1973, Volume 2, p. 75.