Georg Jung (painter)

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Georg Jung (born December 31, 1899 in Salzburg , Austria , † December 5, 1957 in Vienna , Austria) was an Austrian painter . As a representative of the New Objectivity , he created numerous portraits and depictions of landscapes and often dealt with religious topics. The abstract color studies of his late work are also of great importance.

Life

Born as the son of the hotelier of the renowned Hotel de l'Europe in Salzburg , Georg Jung grew up in an international atmosphere. He attended the Academic Gymnasium in Salzburg before leaving school in 1916 to volunteer for one year . After his return from the war and finishing school, Jung moved to Vienna to study medicine. At the same time, he attended an evening course in nude painting at the arts and crafts school . From 1925 to 1938 Jung was a member of the Hagenbund . In 1945 he joined the Vienna Secessionists , of which he remained a member until 1952.

After the death of his father in 1934, Jung returned to Salzburg to take over the management of the Hotel de l'Europe. Even if Jung saw himself more as an artist and less as a hotelier, he managed the hotel until 1938, when he had to sell it at a lower price in view of the pressure from the German Wehrmacht.

In 1939 he married the Swede Borghild Solholm-Hansen and in the same year moved with her to Vienna on the Hohe Warte, before joining the war as a sergeant in 1940 . After the war ended, he returned to his family in Vienna in 1945. Georg Jung had two daughters, Eva (* 1939) and Verena (* 1945).

Jung died in Vienna in 1957 and was buried in the Salzburg municipal cemetery.

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Surrounded by prominent artists who stayed at the Hotel de l'Europe during the Salzburg Festival , Jung developed a pronounced tendency to draw as a child. The young artist was primarily interested in battle scenes, so that a large number of sheets were created. During his schooldays at the Academic Gymnasium, drawing from nature was in the foreground in drawing lessons, so that during this time some views and motifs of the city of Salzburg were created. Even during the war, Jung drew and made war scenes.

Apart from the school drawing lessons and a Aktmalereikurs at the School of Applied Arts Vienna, Jung made self-taught from a painter. From 1922 onwards, a large number of drawings and, for the first time, oil paintings were created during the nude painting course . Jung dealt early on with the problem of color as the formation of partial quantities of light and traveled to Dresden to meet the physicist Wilhelm Ostwald , who had been awarded the Nobel Prize for his research on color theory . Studying color theory right through to his later work, Jung developed the "Colormobile", a kinetic device with continuously changing color constellations.

Jung used the takeover of his parents' hotel to equip the hotel himself with a new interior and frescoes . Even after the hotel was sold in 1938, Jung continued to work in Salzburg and designed, among other things, the sundial on the university building and a fresco on the Franciscan church . In 1942 he was banned from exhibiting because the National Socialists classified his art as " degenerate ".

While Georg Jung was predominantly characterized by Expressionist and Cubist traits in his early work , abstraction gained great importance in his later work.

literature

  • Albin Rohrmoser, Georg Jung. 1899–1957, Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1982.
  • Association of visual artists “Wiener Secession” (ed.), Georg Jung: The Gallery of the Vienna Secession, Vienna, 1949.
  • Thomas Heinz Fischer, Georg Jung. Dissertation, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 1984.
  • Kunsthandel Wienerroither & Kohlbacher , Austrian Masters of Classical Modernism II. Volume 3, Vienna 1999, p. 20th

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  1. ↑ a b Albin Rohrmoser, Georg Jung. 1899–1957, Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1982, pp. 9–11.
  2. ↑ Albin Rohrmoser, Georg Jung. 1899–1957, Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1982, pp. 20–25.
  3. ↑ a b Albin Rohrmoser, Georg Jung. 1899–1957, Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1982, p. 28.
  4. ↑ https://www.sn.at/wiki/Georg_Jung_(Maler)
  5. ↑ a b Albin Rohrmoser, Georg Jung. 1899–1957, Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1982, pp. 9–32.
  6. ↑ https://www.wk.art/artists/georg_jung
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1957
Place of death Vienna , Austria