Josef Schuster (painter)
Josef Schuster (born July 26, 1873 in Vienna-Heiligenstadt , † February 8, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter .
He was the son of a railway official and painter and brother of the painter Karl Maria Schuster . After a year, Josef Schuster studied private lessons from 1895 to 1897 as a guest, then until 1904 as a regular student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl and Kazimierz Pochwalski . During his studies, Schuster received the Special School Prize in 1901 and the Rosenbaum Prize in 1902.
As a freelance artist, Schuster mainly dealt with still life painting in the style of old Viennese masters.
During the First World War he was a soldier from 1915 to 1918. In 1933 Schuster became a member of the cooperative of the visual artists Vienna ( Künstlerhaus ) and joined the conservative "Gruppe Gsur".
In 1945 Schuster fell victim to an air raid .
literature
- Rudolf Schmidt: The Viennese artist house . Vienna 1951, pp. 266, 313.
- Wladimir Aichelburg : Schuster, Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 391.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuster, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna-Heiligenstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1945 |
| Place of death | Vienna |