Franz Xaver Weidinger

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Weidinger's self-portrait in the Ried Volkskundehaus

Franz Xaver Weidinger (born June 17, 1890 in Ried im Innkreis , † October 15, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter of naturalism .

Life

Franz Xaver Weidinger was born on June 17, 1890 as the son of the shoemaker's couple Josef and Cäcilia Weidinger in Ried im Innkreis. His father came from the nearby Hausruckviertel , his mother from Bohemia. After attending the community school, he was apprenticed to a master painter . Looking back, he writes:

“I was there for about a year and a half, and mostly I had to go by the hand of the master, the work required of me consisted of childcare, buying and selling at the traders, wagering in the lottery, bringing wise women to research the future. .. One fine day, I was just fifteen and a half years old, I felt a higher urge in me, which expressed itself in the fact that I secretly left my hometown Ried with two shirts and one pair of underpants, wrapped in newspaper. "

Weidinger worked as a carpenter apprentice in Munich for a year, then he finished his apprenticeship with his brother in Ried.

After his apprenticeship, he attended the state trade school in Salzburg . He earned the necessary money as a carpenter. During the holidays traveled to Italy and wandered through southern Germany. He then applied to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , but did not pass the entrance exam. For two months he attended the painting school of the genre and portrait painter Heinrich Streblow (1862–1925). In 1910 he was accepted at the Art Academy in Dresden and studied with Richard Müller and Osmar Schindler . Since he could not afford the school fees of 90 marks, he returned to Vienna after a year. In October 1911 he was accepted as a guest student and in October 1912 as a regular student of the academy. Until 1916 he attended the four years of the general painting school with Rudolf Bacher and the master school.

After military service and work as a drawing teacher , he continued his studies from 1919 to 1921 at the Vienna Art Academy. In April 1918 he exhibited for the first time in the Vienna Secession and in December 1919 in the Künstlerhaus Vienna . These exhibitions marked his artistic breakthrough. In 1923 he was a founding member of the Innviertel artists' guild . From 1925 until he moved to Bad Ischl in 1939, he was a freelance painter in Linz . From 1930 to 1933 he was president of the Upper Austrian Art Association .

Weidinger spent his last decades in Bad Ischl, where he set up a large, bright studio in his house. Through his art he became a wealthy man. He was aware of his worth. His saying from the early 1950s has been passed down: "Owning a Weidinger must be worth a sacrifice."

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Weidinger is considered to be the legitimate continuer of the Viennese watercolor school . In addition to watercolors , he also dealt with oil painting and printmaking . The preferred subjects were landscapes and portraits , some of them in large formats. In his later works he approached impressionism in style .

His work was u. a. Exhibited in the gallery of the Innviertler Künstlergilde in Ried im Innkreis, in the Bad Ischl town museum, in the gallery of the Upper Austrian State Museum (1961), in the Koekkoek town museum in Kleve (1961) and in the town scales ( De Waagh ) on the Great Market in Nijmegen (1961) and in the Stadtgalerie Vöcklabruck (group exhibition 2012).

Awards

  • Silver State Medal (1919)
  • Anniversary Prize Linz (1924)
  • State Prize of the Innviertel Artists' Guild (1925)
  • Austrian State Prize (1926)
  • Golden Medal of the Linz Art Association (1927)
  • Silver Medal of the City of Graz (1928)
  • Golden State Medal (1934)
  • Silver Medal of the City of Salzburg (1938)
  • Professor hc (1950)
  • Golden Laurel of the Vienna Künstlerhaus (1960)
  • Ring of Honor of the City of Bad Ischl (1971)

literature

in order of appearance

  • Karl Hosaeus : Innviertel painter: Franz Xaver Weidinger. In: Upper Austrian daily newspaper. Born in 1925, No. 80.
  • Max Morold : Franz Xaver Weidinger. In: Yearbook of the Innviertel Artists Guild. Vol. 3, 1928, p. 10.
  • Josef Rutter (Red.): Art in Austria. Austrian almanac and artist address book. Leoben 1934.
  • Weidinger, Franz Xaver . 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. 267 .
  • Wolfgang Johannes Bekh: My encounters with Franz Xaver Weidinger. A look back in sadness. In: Yearbook of the Innviertel Artists Guild. Vol. 1979, pp. 58-62.
  • Helga Achleitner: Franz Xaver Weidinger. Edition Kössl, Ried im Innkreis 1992, ISBN 3-9500083-3-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berta Sarne: Wooden ceilings in Upper Austria. In: Art Yearbook of the City of Linz , year 1977. Published by the City Museum Linz. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0486-4 , p. 102.
  2. ^ Helga Achleitner: Franz Xaver Weidinger. Edition Kössl, Ried im Innkreis 1992.
  3. ↑ Otto Wutzel : Franz Xaver Weidinger on the website of the Museum of the City of Bad Ischl, accessed on June 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Weidinger, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1972
Place of death Vienna