Fritz Silberbauer

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Fritz Silberbauer (born April 4, 1883 in Leibnitz , † December 30, 1974 in Graz ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist . He is considered to be one of the initiators of the Graz Secession founded in 1923 .

War memorial by Fritz Silberbauer

Life

Silberbauer was born as the son of a businessman. He learned to be a lithographer for four years and also worked in the profession for two years. He also attended the Styrian art school, where he was a student of Alfred Schrötter von Kristelli . From 1910 to 1914 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as a master student with Ferdinand Schmutzer . In 1923 he founded the Graz Secession together with Wilhelm Thöny , Alfred Wickenburg , Hans Wagula , Hans Mauracher and Hans Zotter .

From 1928 to 1937 he taught fresco painting at the State Art School in Graz . From 1938 to 1945 he led the master class for painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz and in 1942, as Wickenburg's successor, also the master class for fresco painting. In addition, he works as an honorary lecturer at the Graz University of Technology, today's Graz University of Technology . The NSDAP member Silberbauer was particularly valued by the National Socialists for his wall frescoes on buildings, but he did not use his art for propaganda purposes. Fritz Silberbauer also always played a mediating and protective role for his colleagues who were just tolerated.

He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

Awards

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Giving shape to the "essence of things" was Silberbauer's concern from the start of his work. Not the visible reality, but to give an idea of ​​what was hidden behind the appearances. From the 1930s onwards, Silberbauer increasingly turned to the topics of “dream” and “subconscious”. Silberbauer belonged to the intellectual and artistic center of modernism in Styria in the 1920s and 1930s . In his graphic work of the 1920s in particular, he developed an innovative, independent design language. All in all, his stylistic pluralistic work can be attributed to a more homely, moderate modernity, which was also in line with its conception of art during the time of the “corporate state”. Characteristic for this are his wall designs in fresco technique , which are mostly kept in a simplified, two-dimensional realism , his neo-objective portraits, his sometimes romantic depictions of nature and pictures in the style of magical realism .

Exhibitions

  • Before 1938: A total of 30 exhibitions in Graz, Vienna, Linz, Munich, Warsaw, New York, Bern, London, Venice, Brünn / Brno (SK), Batavia / Jakarta, Surabaya (ID)
  • 1938 to 1945: 11 exhibitions in Graz, Vienna, Straßburg / Strasbourg / Schdroosburi (FR), Leoben
  • 1946 to 1974: 12 solo exhibitions and 23 exhibition participations
  • 1981: Painting and graphics from the interwar period 1918−38 , Galerie Ariadne, Thomas Netusil Kunsthandel, Vienna
  • 1997: Lines of Passion , Neue Galerie Graz , Universalmuseum Joanneum , Graz
  • 2005: Description and image , Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 2005: Beyond the Horizon. Fantastic and cryptic in the work of Fritz Silberbauer , Graz City Museum
  • 2006: Description: On the nature of man. Genre painting of the 19th and early 20th centuries , Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 2010: Fritz Silberbauer and Alfred Resch , Archeo Norico Castle Museum, Deutschlandsberg
  • 2010: The Art of Customization. Styrian artists in National Socialism between tradition and propaganda , City Museum Graz
  • 2011: Ocassion , galerie remixx, Graz
  • 2014: From the collection: The First World War from an Artistic Point of View , State Gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz

literature

  • Erika Hellich, Fritz Silberbauer: Fritz Silberbauer . Vienna Secession, 1969

Web links

Commons : Fritz Silberbauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography ( memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kunsthandel Bachlechner, accessed on September 8, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunst-bachlechner.at
  2. ↑ Appreciation Prize of the State of Styria for Fine Arts: Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 17, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verwaltung.steiermark.at
  3. ^ Catalog 2005 for the exhibition "Beyond the Horizon. Fantastic and Abyssal in the Work of Fritz Silberbauer" ( ISBN 3-900764-29-8 )
  4. ↑ a b c Annette Rainer, Fritz Silberbauer: Fritz Silberbauer . Catalog 2010 for the exhibition “The Art of Adaptation. Styrian artists in National Socialism between tradition and propaganda "( ISBN 978-3900764319 )
personal data
SURNAME Silberbauer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian graphic artist and is considered a co-initiator of the Graz Secession founded in 1923
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Leibnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1974
Place of death Graz