Franz Sedlacek (painter)

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Library , 1926, Landesgalerie Linz
The chemist (self-portrait, 1932)

Franz August Moritz Georg Sedlacek (born January 21, 1891 in Breslau ; missing in Poland since 1945 ) was an Austrian painter.

biography

Franz Sedlacek was born in Breslau in 1891 as the eldest of three sons of the Austrian refrigeration machine manufacturer Julius Sedlacek and Klara Riemann. In 1897 the family moved from Breslau to Linz . Sedlacek graduated from the Imperial and Royal High School in Fadingerstraße in 1909 and moved to Vienna the following year , where he studied architecture . The following year he switched to chemistry . Sedlacek was always artistically active and exhibited for the first time in Linz in 1912. In 1913 he founded the Linz artists' association MAERZ together with Anton Lutz , Franz and Klemens Brosch and Heinz Bitzan (1892–1965) .

After serving in the First World War , he graduated from the Technical University of Vienna in 1921 as Dr. techn. and then worked at the Technical Museum for Industry and Commerce , Vienna, among other things as head of the chemical industry department . In 1923 he married Maria Albrecht. From this marriage two daughters were born. In 1927 he became a member of the Vienna Secession . In 1933 he joined the service organization of the Fatherland Front in the Technical Museum. As early as 1937 he joined the National Socialist company organization in the Technical Museum and after joining in 1938 applied for membership in the NSDAP . In July of the same year he applied for admission to the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . A second military service followed in 1939. Sedlacek came to Stalingrad , Norway and Poland. He has been missing since 1945.

Artistic work

Sedlacek's early work is graphic . First works appeared in magazines such as Die Muskete and Simplicissimus . However, he later turned to oil painting . The work is of great accuracy and precision. As particularly significant his preference applies to contrasts, which he Old Master royal glazing reached.

The entire work is classified between Magical Realism and New Objectivity . The subjects of the picture are fantastic and surreal . Mixed creatures and caricatured figures predominate, the basic mood is often melancholy to threatening.

During the interwar period, Franz Sedlacek was considered one of Austria's most important artists. However, his work was later forgotten and has only been honored again since the 1990s.

  • The possessed , WV 8, oil on cardboard, 71 × 86 cm, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (1921)
  • Library , WV 25, oil on plywood, 60.5 × 75.5 cm, Upper Austrian State Museum, State Gallery Linz (1926)
  • Exercise meadow , WV 28, oil on plywood, 26.5 × 23.3 cm, Lentos Art Museum Linz (1926)
  • The Three Kings , WV 33, oil on plywood, 75.5 × 60 cm, Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz (1926)
  • Flight into Egypt , WV 34, oil on panel, 80 × 65 cm, Leopold II Collection (1927)
  • Returning home at night , WV 37, oil on plywood, 60 × 75 cm, Upper Austrian State Museum, State Gallery Linz (1927)
  • Ghost above the trees , WV 44, oil on panel, 45 × 49.8 cm, Leopold II Collection (1928)
  • Landscape with St. Sebastian , WV 62, oil on plywood, 57.5 × 69.5 cm, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (1930)
  • Landscape with a rainbow , WV 63, oil on plywood, 45 × 41.5 cm, University of Applied Arts Vienna (1930)
  • Winter Landscape , WV 66, oil on panel, 64 × 81.5 cm, Wien Museum (1931)
  • The Chemist , WV 79, oil on plywood, 82.5 × 63 cm, Wien Museum (1932)
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt , WV 96, oil on plywood, 62 × 55 cm, Upper Austrian State Museum, Landesgalerie Linz (1934)
  • Romantic landscape with rock gate and robbers , WV 94, oil on plywood, 48 × 60 cm, Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz (1934)
  • East Tyrolean Landscape , WV 98, oil on plywood, 47 × 62.5 cm, Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, Provincial Gallery Linz (1934)
  • City in the Mountains , WV 101, oil on plywood, 49.7 × 71.6 cm, Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz (1935)
  • Flower piece with a lizard , WV 105, oil on plywood, 54 × 42.3 cm, University of Applied Arts Vienna (around 1935)
  • Thunderstorm Landscape , WV 111, oil on plywood, 50 × 39.8 cm, Nordico City Museum Linz (1936)

Awards and honors

  • Gold medal for painting at the world exhibition in Barcelona (1929)
  • Austrian State Prize for the oil painting Blumenstück (1933)
  • Austrian State Prize for Painting (1935)
  • Austrian State Prize for Painting (1937)
  • Prize of the Gaustadt Vienna (1939)

Exhibitions

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Sedlacek: The Influence of the concentration of the wort to the competition between culture yeast and some foreign organisms containing [sic] sowing the same number of cells. Dissertation. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna 1921.
personal data
SURNAME Sedlacek, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sedlacek, Franz August Moritz Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH after 1945