Josef Schnetzer

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Josef Schnetzer (born March 16, 1905 in Imst ; † 1993 in Linz ) was an Austrian painter and from 1968 to 1984 president of the professional association of fine artists of Upper Austria.

Live and act

Schnetzer grew up in Meran and attended grammar school in Linz from 1913 to 1921. He was the early 1920s, a student of Matthias May and followed them Munich , where he after his death, the Royal School of Applied Arts Munich ( Walter Angel , tempera painting) and from 1925 to 1928, the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich ( Karl Kaspar , nude and portrait drawing ) and then returned to Linz. His first major commissions as a freelance artist included panel paintings for the Don Bosco Church in Linz (1930) and then a cycle of 24 Stations of the Cross. These are the few surviving works from his early days.

After seven years of military service and a serious wound, his studio and all of the works he housed there were destroyed in 1945. The pictures created after 1945 were landscapes and portraits in oil or tempera as well as works in pastel, drawings, book illustrations and poster designs. Some sgraffiti on Linz's new buildings belong to the field of monumental painting. Due to his membership in the professional association of fine artists of Upper Austria, he took part in their exhibitions in the New Gallery of the City of Linz .

He was a member and for 16 years president of the professional association of visual artists in Austria (Upper Austria regional organization), a founding member of the Mühlviertler artists 'guild and a member of the Innviertler artists' guild .

Exhibitions

  • Collective exhibition 1936 in the Linz artist association MAERZ , mainly with figurative works, landscapes and portraits
  • Participation in an exhibition at the Kaufmännisches Vereinhaus in Linz (1947)
  • Collective exhibition in 1956 in the Upper Austrian State Museum with the creation of a catalog and portrait in the 1956 Culture Report, Volume 11
  • Exhibition: A life for art in the Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof in 1980 with a catalog and again in 1985 with a catalog

Awards

Literature by Josef Schnetzer

From 1963 to 1970 Josef Schnetzer wrote several articles in the Mühlviertler Heimatblätter :

  • Prof. Lothar Fink - an ancient artist. Volume 3, Linz 1963, pp. 193–194, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Reinprecht Schober. Graphic artist and model maker. Volume 6, Linz 1966, pp. 186–187, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • We mourn a member. Year 10, Linz 1970, p. 98 (concerns the painter Fanny Newald).

literature

  • Wilhelm Jenny : Josef Schnetzer. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter. Volume 1, Issue 1, Linz 1961, pp. 14–16, online (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum.
  • Otfried Kastner : The painter Josef Schnetzer - On his 60th birthday on March 16, 1965. In: Upper Austrian cultural report 1965. Episode 9.
  • Rudolf Pfann : The painter Josef Schnetzer in sixties. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter. Year 5, Haft 3/4, Linz 1965.
  • Otto Wutzel : What remains in the changeable - thoughts about the painter Josef Schnetzer and his visual world. Linz 1978.
  • Franz Engl : Josef Schnetzer. In: Yearbook of the Innviertel Artists' Guild 1993/94. Ried im Innkreis, p. 105f.
  • Gottfried Reichart : Josef Schnetzer lives on in his work. In: Upper Austrian culture report. Volume 49, Episode 5, 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Schnetzer. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Website of the City of Linz, accessed on March 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Josef Schnetzer on the Artemons website ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artemons.at
  3. ↑ Franz Engl. In: Regiowiki.at website
personal data
SURNAME Schnetzer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Imst
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Linz