Heinrich Haider

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Heinrich Haider (* 1903 in Linz ; † 1978 there ) was an Upper Austrian painter and graphic artist . From 1955 to 1962 he was the first chairman of the Mühlviertel artists' guild alongside President Franz von Zülow .

Live and act

Haider was the son of a Linzer magistrates born and grew up in Linz, where he led the public school attended and then entered the postal service , where he eventually became head of the President's Linz post office, was forced to retire because of a serious illness but the 1954th

He owes his first artistic knowledge as a painter to the Linz painters Julius Seidl , Paul Ikrath (1888–1970) and Matthias May, and in 1943 he took part in a public exhibition for the first time. Only after 1954 was he able to attend Herbert Dimmel's master class at the art school of the city of Linz for a few semesters .

As early as 1947 he was accepted into the professional association of the visual artists of Austria (Landesorganization Upper Austria) and in 1955 he was a founding member of the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde, where for the first eight years he acted as the executive chairman and played a key role in the implementation of the first exhibitions participated.

It was his merit to integrate the artists' association into the Upper Austrian Volksbildungswerk as early as 1956 and to found the Mühlviertler Heimatblätter in 1961 and to appoint Rudolf Pfann as the first editor.

Works by him are owned by the Federal Ministry of Education ( autumn , oil), the state of Upper Austria ( Madonna , pastel watercolors) and the city of Linz, as well as by lovers of his art ( Mühlviertler farm , oil). He also put his impressions on paper as a poet, which he gathered in his graphic work.

Award

Haider was a consultant to the Upper Austrian provincial government.

literature

During his function in the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde he wrote several articles in the association magazine Mühlviertler Heimatblätter , u. a. the obituary for the president of the association, Franz von Zülow.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hertha Schober-Awecker : Heinrich Haider, a painter from Mühlviertel, our managing chairman on his 60th birthday , in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter, Volume II, 9/10/1962, Linz, 1962
  2. ^ Luby: Article on the painter and poet Heinrich Haider , in: Zeitschrift Post und Telegraphie, 1953
  3. ^ Database research on Heinrich Haider's bibliography in the OoeGeschichte.at forum
personal data
SURNAME Haider, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Upper Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death Linz