Josef Neukirch

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Josef Neukirch (born May 25, 1895 in Linz ; † July 18, 1953 there ) was an Austrian painter and civil servant .

Live and act

After completing secondary school in Linz in 1915, Neukirch became a state official in the accounting service, most recently state accounting director. As a painter he was self-taught and attended the Matthias May painting school from 1920 to 1922 . He was on friendly terms with Alois Kaindl and Vilma Eckl , who also influenced his artistic work. He practiced his painterly activity as a part-time job and never appeared in public during his lifetime. His works, mostly drafts and sketches, reveal compositional skills and a fine sense of color.

From 1926 he was a member of the artists' association MAERZ . His artistic estate was taken over by Otto Bejvl and formed the basis for his art trade in Linz in the 1960s.

Exhibitions

Neukirch's works were presented in group exhibitions:

  • Several exhibitions in the Otto Bejvl Gallery, Hofkabinett.
  • 100 years of MAERZ - the beginnings 1913 to 1938. Nordico , Linz 2013.

Works

Josef Neukirch created a series of landscape paintings as watercolors in mixed media on paper, oil on panel and oil on canvas. Individual paintings are in the painting collection of the Upper Austrian provincial government.

  • Mountain landscape
  • landscape
  • Field work
  • Bathers
  • Nudes, half nudes
  • Horse and worker
  • Piece of mountain
  • The meal

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d press release. 100 YEARS OF MARZ. The beginnings 1913 to 1938. February 15 to May 20, 2013. (PDF) In: nordico.at. 2013, p. 16 , accessed April 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ Alfred Marks: Director's report. In: Upper Austrian Museum Association - Society for Regional Studies (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Year 111, Linz 1966, p. 25 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  3. ↑ Otto Bejvl , in: Regiowiki.at website accessed on December 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ Engelbert Kliemstein , in: Hofkabinett's website, accessed on December 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Neukirch, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neukirch, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1953
Place of death Linz