Hermann Kosel
Hermann Kosel (born March 20, 1896 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 12, 1983 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .
Life
Hermann Kosel was the son of the writer and court photographer Hermann Clemens Kosel . He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Rudolf Bacher and Ferdinand Schmutzer . In the interwar period, he turned to commercial posters, which he designed as two-dimensional and calculated colors. He was employed by Julius Klinger as a teacher at his private school for commercial graphics. Together with Rolf Frey he ran the "Atelier Cosl-Frey", from 1927 to 1929 together with Erwin Gibson the "Atelier Kosel-Gibson", from 1929 he worked alone. Kosel worked for the Rikola publishing house, for the Humanic shoe factory and for the 1931 International Motor Show . After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he had to flee to Switzerland with his Jewish wife Nelly Wengraf and lived in Aix-en-Provence until 1949 , where he only painted landscape pictures, after which both returned to Vienna.
Kosel received the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts for 1954 in the Applied Arts category. He became an honorary member of the Association of Austrian Commercial Graphics (BÖG). The Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna dedicated an exhibition to Kosel in 2003 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death, entitled The Holy Every Day . He was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (Section 7, Ring 3, Group 3, No. 79).
exhibition
- 50 years of Kosel posters . Introduction: Wilhelm Mrazek . Catalog design: Hermann Kosel. Exhibition in the Austrian Museum of Applied Art. Vienna: Schendl, 1971
literature
- A. Smetana: Kosel, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 351.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Kosel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Hermann Kosel in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Bernhard Denscher: Hermann Kosel - Concentration and Compression
- Murray G. Hall : Hermann Kosel as a book designer
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hermann Kosel ( Memento of the original from May 10, 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 onb
- ↑ Hermann Kosel in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kosel, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1983 |
| Place of death | Vienna |