Gustav Jahn (painter)

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Gustav Jahn as Lieutenant 1918 ( Ferdinand Andri )
Jahn: Dolomite climbing
Autumn in the Fassa Valley
with a rose garden group
Homestead in Selva - Val Gardena

Gustav Jahn (born May 17, 1879 in Vienna ; † August 17, 1919 on the Ödsteinkante , Ennstal Alps ) was a painter , graphic artist and alpinist .

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Gustav Jahn was born in Vienna and from 1895 attended the painting school of Adolf Kaufmann (1848–1916), after which he was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . His teachers were August Eisenmenger (1830–1907) and Alois Delug (1859–1930). From 1900 to 1904 he attended the Franz Rumpler special school (1848–1922). His specialty were high mountain landscapes and - secondarily - genre pictures from the mountains. His works were also marketed as prints, school blackboards and posters, with his poster series with views of the Alps on behalf of the State Railways receiving special recognition. In addition to a large number of postcards with mountain motifs (shelters of the local mountains, genre pictures of mountain sports), he illustrated for many years the catalogs of the mountain sports house by Mizzi Langer-Kauba (1872–1955) , which is known far beyond Vienna . He has received numerous prizes for his artistic work (including 1898 Lampi Prize , 1899 Gundel Prize , 1901 Special School Prize, 1904 Rosenbaum Prize ) as well as several recognition prizes at major exhibitions.

  • Winter sports, before the start (tempera / gouache, around 1910)

  • Poster for Mizzi Langer-Kauba

His real passion was mountaineering , where from a young age he mainly devoted himself to rock climbing. He used his Kenyon travel grant to Rome (1904) less for painting than for mountain tours in the Mont-Blanc area. His favorite climbing areas were Rax and Schneeberg , Gesäuse , Dachstein and the Dolomites . He was the type of extreme leaderless who opened a series of guided tours that are still popular today and with the first ascent of the south face of the Große Bischofsmütze in the Dachstein Mountains ( difficulty level IV-V) together with Otto Laubheimer (who later fell to death at the Hochtor in front of Jahn's eyes) (1882–1903) and only three hooks hit achieved his most important achievement. Since 1901 he was a member of the prestigious Austrian Alpine Club (Ö.AK) .

Jahn was not only a climber, but also a committed skier (28 prizes in competitions), ski jumper and ski mountaineer. His alpine achievements led to his being assigned as an instruction officer at the high mountain school of the army in the Dolomites during the First World War .

The cause of his death at the Ödsteinkante, in which his partner Michael Kofler was also killed, remains unclear. The fall took place at the key point of the route, the freely accessible Preuss Crossing (difficulty level IV-V). Jahn is on the Mountaineers' cemetery of John Bach , Styria , buried.

Gustav Jahn was unmarried.

First ascents

Mountain companions

Karl Huber, Otto Laubheimer, Erwin Merlet , Camillo Oppel, Eduard Pichl , Franz Zimmer, Franz and Otto Barth (Alpine painters and close friends), Ernst Berger , Günter Dyhrenfurth , Richard Gerin, Otto Jahn (brother), Michael Kofler, Eduard Kubelka, Oskar Kukla, Fritz Langsteiner, Viktor Machek, Oskar Müller, Rudolf Phillapitsch, Paul Richter, Viktor Sohm, Otto Weinberger, Franz Aschenbrenner , Angelo Dibona .

Fonts

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hh .:  Otto Laubheimer crashed. In:  Der Naturfreund , born 1903, No. 9, September 15, 1903 (VII. Year), p. 85 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dna.
  2. ↑ a b c Little Chronicle. (...) Fatal tourist crash of the painter Gustav Jahn. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 19752/1919, August 21, 1919, p. 1, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp, and
    L. Schickl:  Michael Kofler †. In:  Austrian Tourist Newspaper , year 1919, No. 9, September 1, 1919 (XXXIX. Year), p. 132. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / otz.
  3. ^ Gustav Jahn (1879-1919) Viennese alpine painter and alpinist. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist and alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1919
Place of death Ödsteinkante , Ennstal Alps