Friedrich Meyer-Rubritius

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Friedrich Meyer-Rubritius (born January 23, 1890 in Klagenfurt , † December 13, 1950 in Graz ) was an Austrian ( Styrian ) still life and landscape painter .

Life

Friedrich Meyer-Rubritius received his training from 1910 to 1913 at the Vienna Academy and from 1919 to 1921 at the State Art School in Graz under Alfred Zoff . Professionally, however, he embarked on a civil servant career, which first led him to Switzerland. When he returned to Styria, he was mainly active in the Graz area in addition to his full-time work as a landscape and still life painter.

In the exhibition “Graz Painting 1890 to 1950” in the Künstlerhaus Graz in 1969, several oil paintings (“Narcissus meadow near Parschlug ”, “Kornschober”, “Turkish carnations”, “North Sea in the Storm”) were shown and is the artist became known to a wider public.

literature

  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters born in 1881–1900. Volume 2: MZ. Selbstverlag, Vienna 1977, K 18, illustration: p. 23, ISBN 3-85390-004-X .