Karl holiday

Karl Holiday (born April 25, 1874 in Vienna ; died September 26, 1944 in Weidling ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Karl Urlaub studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler , Kasimir Pochwalski and Josef Mathias Trenkwald . He worked in Vienna and Munich for various advertising companies and moved to Weidling with his wife . In 1914 he became a member of the Association of Local Artists Klosterneuburg .

SS Martha Washington in front of Palermo

Holiday work includes landscapes and cityscapes. His artist postcards with children's motifs, animal motifs, puppets and teddy bears found massive sales . For the Viennese art postcard publisher Brothers Kohn , he created a series with views and on-board scenes of the Trieste Austro-Americana ship Martha Washington . He also designed children's coloring books.

He was buried in the Weidlinger Friedhof in Klosterneuburg . In Klosterneuburg, the Karl-Ferien-Gasse is named after him.

Works (selection)

Anna Marquardsen: Hit the gate! . Picture decorations K. Holiday. Nuremberg: Jaser, 1920

literature

Ursula Müksch: Karl Holiday (1874–1944): an artist's life ; Retrospective on the 60th anniversary of death. Catalog for the exhibition in the Stadt-Museum Klosterneuburg . Klosterneuburg: City Museum Klosterneuburg, 2004

Veronika Pfaffel: 100 years of the association of local artists, Klosterneuburg artists' association . Catalog for the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum, Klosterneuburg, 2008

Dankmar Trier: Holiday, Karl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 37, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22777-9 , p. 524.

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Ferien in the catalog of the German National Library
Ursula Müksch: Karl holiday , with art lover
Postcards artist - holiday, Karl , with postcards
Karl Holiday (1874–1944) , exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Klosterneuburg, 2004

Individual evidence

↑ Different information (year of death 1949) at AKL
↑ Weidling parish cemetery book. (PDF) Weidling Parish, December 25, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Holiday, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klosterneuburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1944
Place of death	Klosterneuburg

[1] Different information (year of death 1949) at AKL

[2] Weidling parish cemetery book. (PDF) Weidling Parish, December 25, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2020 .