Hugo Grimm (painter)

Hugo Grimm (born February 21, 1866 in Feldkirch ; † October 8, 1944 in Kitzbühel ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Hugo Grimm, who worked as a post office clerk from 1894, received his only artistic training from 1891 to 1894 with Alfons Silber in Hall , otherwise he was self-taught . In 1911 he quit his post at the post office and from then on lived exclusively from art. Following the Romantics, Hugo Grimm created mysterious and fairytale landscapes . After the so-called annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938, which Grimm welcomed emphatically, he exhibited from 1940 to 1943 at the Innsbruck "Gau art exhibitions Tirol-Vorarlberg".

Hugo Grimm died in Kitzbühel at the age of 78.

Works (selection)

Flowered forest clearing with rock wall (1913)

• Forest meadow , 1904, Museum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
• Forest fairy tale , 1909, Ferdinandeum Museum Innsbruck
• Poster for Passion Play in Brixlegg , 1913
• Hagen , 1933, private property
• German war mother , 1940, private property
• Utility graphics and book illustrations

literature

• Heinrich Hammer : Grimm, Hugo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 46 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Grimm, Hugo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 310 .
• Grimm, Hugo. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 63 f. (Direct links on p. 63 , p. 64 ).
• Grimm, Hugo . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 4 : Görres – Hittorp . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094654-8 , p. 147 .
• Gert Ammann : Grimm, Hugo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 62, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23029-5 , p. 271.
• 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. 76-77, 136-137, 148-149 .