Heinz Bitzan

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Heinz Bitzan (born February 21, 1892 in Linz ; † April 7, 1965 there ) was an Austrian artisan , book designer , bookbinder and amateur photographer .

Live and act

Heinz Bitzan is a graduate of the art class at the Berlin bookbinding school and worked for many years in art bookbinding in Germany.

In 1919 he founded his own workshop in Linz. He was a member of the Amateur Photography Association Linz and in 1932 a founding member of the Art Photography Association Linz. In the 1930s he belonged to the Linz school of soft focus art photographers .

From 1941 to 1946 and from 1949 to 1960 he was the regional guild master for bookbinders and cardboard manufacturers. In 1954 he was commissioned to design the city of Linz's guest book.

Together with Klemens and Franz Brosch , Franz Sedlacek , Anton Lutz and Hans Pollack, Bitzan was one of the founders of the March artists' association .

Group exhibitions

The winter landscape photo (felled wood) is in the Lentos collection and was used as the cover for an exhibition catalog.

  • March 1913. The founding members of the Linz Artists' Association in the Linz State Gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum (2013)
  • 100 years of March. The beginnings 1913 to 1938, Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz (2013)
  • Winter panorama Still, winter journey through the rich depot of the collections of the museums of the city of Linz from the 19th century to the present, Lentos (2005)
  • International photo exhibition of the Association of Austrian Amateur Photographers Association, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936 as well as participation in other national and international photo exhibitions a. a. in Vienna, Salzburg, Essen, Munich, Cologne, Nuremberg, Berlin, Dresden, publications on this and other national and international publications.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linz School of Art Photography. Prospectus, Nordico City Museum, Linz 1979.
  2. ↑ Heinz Bitzan ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 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. In: Press release on 100 years of MAERZ - The beginnings 1913 to 1938. Exhibition in Nordico February 15 to May 20, 2013, requested on November 2, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linz.at
  3. ↑ Franz Brosch, in: Regiowiki.at website queried on November 3, 2015.
  4. ^ Wiltrud Hackl: Birthday party with brown spots. In: The Standard. March 21, 2013, accessed on October 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ Entre.Sculp Entre.Scultures - Artists' Association March in Linz. ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 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. at parnass.at, accessed on October 31, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parnass.at
  6. ↑ Winter fairy tales in Linz's Lentos. on art-port.cc, accessed on October 31, 2015.
  7. ↑ Bibliography Heinz Bitzan. In: Albertina Online. queried on November 2, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bitzan, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bitzan, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artisan, book designer, bookbinder and amateur photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1965
Place of death Linz