Franz Wacik

Franz Wacik: poster for the spring exhibition of the Vienna Secession . Color lithograph , 1913

Franz Wacik (born September 9, 1883 in Vienna , † September 15, 1938 ibid) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

At the beginning of his artistic career, Franz Wacik was initially a student at the Strehblow School of Painting, later he studied with Alfred Roller at the Vienna School of Applied Arts . From 1902 to 1908 he studied painting with Christian Griepenkerl , Franz Rumpler and Heinrich Lefler at the Vienna Art Academy .

In particular, Wacik devoted himself to book illustration, mainly in children's and young people's books. He illustrated mostly in color works by Hans Christian Andersen , fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm , stories by ETA Hoffmann , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Clemens Brentano , also the popular book by Till Eulenspiegel and others. v. a. He took over the volumes on Franz Schubert and Franz Grillparzer for the book series Österreichs Ruhmeshalle , for the weekly magazine Die Muskete he made hundreds of color illustrations, and he also contributed to the magazine Jugendrotkreuz . His work for the ambitious series Gerlach's youth library stands out particularly , z. B. again with Andersen's fairy tales and illustrations about Bürgers Münchhausen .

literature

• Hans H. Hofstätter: Franz Wacik in Art Nouveau - graphics and printing art. RVG - Rheingauer Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Eltville; Salzburg 1987; ISBN 3-88102-062-4 , p. 245.
• H. v. Ankwicz : Franz Wacik . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 6-8 .
• Franz Wacik . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 61 .
• ETA Hoffmann: The Serapion Brothers. Carl Stephenson Verlag, Vienna 1923.

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