Hugo von Preen

Hugo von Preen (born May 25, 1854 in Easter mountain near Braunau [today district of Braunau], † February 24, 1941 ibid) was an Austrian painter and local researcher .

life and work

Gut Osternberg, Preen's residence (demolished in 1972)

Parish church of Braunau with houses on the Inn, pencil and pen, heightened with white on paper, 1941 at the latest

Hugo von Preen was born in Easterberg near Braunau in 1854 as the son of an officer. The family came from Mecklenburg . He spent his childhood and youth in Weinheim ( Baden-Württemberg ). From 1873 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and from 1882 he lived and worked as a freelance painter in Easterberg. In 1884 he was a co-founder of the Osternberg Artists' Colony , which existed until the turn of the century and had a decisive influence on Munich painting at the time. In 1923 he established the Innviertler Künstlergilde together with Aloys Wach and Louis Hofbauer . In the same year Wilhelm Dachauer joined the group.

Von Preen was mainly a landscape painter , but also dealt with portraits , animals and hunting pictures . He preferred the small format and designed several series of postcards .

The Hallstatt-era choker in the Linz Castle Museum

Obituary notice in Braunau, 1941

He was also known as an excavator and local history researcher. In Uttendorf around 1884/85 his employees discovered a Hallstatt- era choker and in Ranshofen he examined a Carolingian Palatinate . He published most of the research results himself. He paid particular attention to popular life in the Innviertel . In 1916/17 he set up a replica of an Innviertel farmhouse in the Braunau bell foundry house. This presentation can be seen unchanged to this day. His archaeological finds are exhibited in the Upper Austrian provincial museums .

Anton Bayer: Hugo von Preen: 50 years in the service of the homeland. Local history research in the districts on the Inn. Based on Preen's own notes . Oberl. A. Bayer, Braunau am Inn 1933.
J. Reitinger: Preen Hugo von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 253.

↑ Rudolf Lehr : State Chronicle of Upper Austria. Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85498-331-6 , p. 53.

personal data
SURNAME	Preen, Hugo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Easter mountain near Braunau am Inn
DATE OF DEATH	February 24, 1941
Place of death	Easter mountain near Braunau am Inn