Hubert Lanzinger

Hubert Lanzinger (born October 9, 1880 in Innsbruck ; † November 3, 1950 in Bozen ) was an Austrian painter . His painting became famous during the National Socialist era .

Life

Hubert Lanzinger's father was a lithographer and draftsman , his grandfather was the painter Georg Wachter .

Lanzinger studied from 1901 to 1908 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class of Alois Delug . During the First World War , from December 1, 1917 until the end of the war, Lanzinger worked as a war painter in the Austro-Hungarian war press quarters on the fronts in Montenegro and Galicia . From 1919 to 1922 he was based in Innsbruck. In 1922/23 he represented Alois Delug at the Vienna Academy. From 1923 he lived in Bolzano, Munich and Berlin . He had already exhibited in the Secession in Vienna in 1911 . Lanzinger was one of the representatives of the New Objectivity in the 1920s . In addition to landscapes, he mainly created still lifes and portraits , but also religious pictures.

He became a painterly propagandist of National Socialism at an early age . His painting Der Bannerträger from 1934/1936 corresponded exactly to the ideological guidelines of National Socialism and was a frequently reproduced work of art. It was shown at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1937 and depicted Adolf Hitler in knight armor, riding a horse, with a swastika banner . In 1938, at this propaganda show in room 37, he exhibited the drawing Resting , a naked woman lolling on the sofa. This drawing was bought by Adolf Hitler. In 1943 three Landser portraits were shown under the title War Volunteer DZ . In 1944 he made the drawing of still life available for this Nazi propaganda show in Munich (no picture available).

In the auditorium of the University of Innsbruck a 150 × 150 centimeter mosaic showed Adolf Hitler as a rider in armor with the swastika flag in his right hand. This mosaic was created based on Hubert Lanzinger's “Bannerträger” painted in 1933/34.

At the end of the 1920s, he built a striking residential building in the New Objectivity style in Bad Dreikirchen above Barbian in South Tyrol , which is now run as a guest house.

Works

• Portrait of Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli , 1917
• Portrait of Erich Thönig , 1931
• Der Bannerträger ( The Standard Bearer ), 1934/1936
• The leader as the protector of art
• Portrait of Fritz Todt , 1939
• Self-portrait at the easel , 1944

literature

• Carl Kraus : Hubert Lanzinger (= monograph of South Tyrolean artists, volume 27). Published by the Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Bozen 2000.
• Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of the visual artists of the 20th century. Volume 3.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - media administration 1914–1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, p. 182
2. ^ German Historical Museum Berlin. In: dhm.de. Retrieved January 4, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Tobias Ronge: The image of the ruler in painting and graphics of National Socialism: An investigation into the iconography of leaders and functionaries in the Third Reich. Lit Verlag, 2011.
4. ↑ Carl Kraus, Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 50–51 (with ill.) .
5. ↑ Internet site: Great German Art Exhibition
6. ↑ Schramek Markus: Boreholes that worry. February 20, 2019, accessed February 21, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The architectural style of the Pension Briol.
8. ↑ Hanns C. Löhr: The Brown House of Art. Hitler and the "special order Linz". Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-050-04156-8 , p. 167. Restricted preview in the Google book search