Franz Schaffgotsch
Franz Schaffgotsch , born as Franz Graf Schaffgotsch called Semperfrei von und zu Kynast und Greiffenstein (born December 13, 1902 in Bregenz , † December 21, 1942 in Dubrovnik , Yugoslavia ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and set designer .
biography
Franz Schaffgotsch came from the Silesian noble family Schaffgotsch . He was born on December 13, 1902, the son of the then Lieutenancy Council of Bregenz and later State President of Salzburg, Count Levin Schaffgotsch .
Although he did not receive regular artistic training because of an ongoing illness, he became the first style-setting set designer for the Salzburg Marionette Theater , for which he among other things grotesque ghost fantasies, e.g. As the 1925 published wallet beasts , to Alfred Kubin reminiscent pen drawings of horror scenarios and anxiety visions and fairy tale illustrations created. In the same year he presented his works to the interested public for the first time in the Salzburg art salon Mora. A joint exhibition with George Grosz in Munich followed in 1929 . In addition, Schaffgotsch also worked as a book illustrator and designed, among other things, the artistic inserts of the children's book The Cold Heart by Stefanie Ginzey .
In 1934 he took an active part in the suppression of a National Socialist coup attempt in his community of Lamprechtshausen . After the German troops marched into Salzburg in March 1938, he did not return to Austria from a joint trip to Italy with his Jewish wife Hedwig and, after a short stay in Trieste , settled in Zagreb . There he earned his living mainly through church commissions and restoration work. In 1942 he was arrested by the Croatian authorities and imprisoned in a German internment camp in Dubrovnik. There he died on December 21, 1942 under unknown circumstances.
His wife Hedwig, who escaped National Socialist rule, published a book in 1949 about the fate of her husband and her own during the Third Reich .
literature
- Hedwig Countess Schaffgotsch: The lovers are all from one nation. A woman's fate. Verlag Franz Ehrenwirth, Munich 1949
- Nikolaus Schaffer: Obituary after fifty years. Two artists' fates during the Nazi regime in Salzburg. Helene von Taussig and Franz Schaffgotsch. In: The Salzburg year 1988/89. Self-published by the Salzburg provincial government, Salzburg 1988
- Rolf Jessewitsch, Gerhard Schneider: Ostracized - Forgotten - Rediscovered. Art of expressive representationalism from the Gerhard Schneider Collection. Verlag Wienand, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-87909-665-1
- Adolf Haslinger, Peter Mittermayr (ed.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenz Verlag , Salzburg-Vienna-Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1129-1
- A. Kuzio-Podrucki: The Schaffgotsch House. The changeful fate of a noble Silesian dynasty. Tarnowskie Góry 2009, ISBN 978-83-61458-32-6
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaffgotsch, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaffgotsch, Franz Graf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bregenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1942 |
| Place of death | Dubrovnik |