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Karl Truppe (born February 9, 1887 in Ebenthal in Carinthia , † February 22, 1959 in Viktring ) was an Austrian painter and university professor. He portrayed Emperor Karl I of Austria and Adolf Hitler , among others .

Life

Truppe was born the son of a village school teacher. He came into contact with the Viktring artist circle early on ; Ludwig Willroider was the first artist to introduce the young troupe to painting.

After graduating from high school , Truppe went to Vienna in 1905 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1913 . For his last work at the academy, he received the Rome Prize in 1914 . In addition to studying art, he played the cello , which he remained loyal to throughout his life. The First World War took him to Galicia as an officer , where he worked as a war painter . He was assigned to the Austro-Hungarian War Press Headquarters of the Austro-Hungarian Army High Command and drew war scenes. Some generals and even Emperor Karl had them portrayed by him. In 1928 the Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk had himself portrayed by him.

Truppe lived in Brno from 1917 to 1937 and mostly spent the summer holidays in Viktring, where his father had set up a studio for his son.

An invitation to the United States opened up new perspectives for the troops in 1931. Portrait commissions took him to New York and Chicago . Numerous exhibitions followed in German cities.

Under the National Socialist regime was Force in high esteem, in 1938 an appeal reached him as a professor of fine arts at the Art Academy in Dresden . During this creative phase he portrayed Hitler ( Der Führer , 1943) and painted numerous pictures in the taste of the time. The portrait of Hitler was published by the photographer and Hitler confidante Heinrich Hoffmann in a special issue of the magazine Kunst dem Volk on Hitler's birthday on April 20, 1943.

In 1942 Truppe painted himself with death as a chess partner. His oeuvre also includes still lifes , nudes , landscapes and pictures with mythological representations or folk content. It was signed in red. Some of it was reminiscent of Rembrandt , such as the Holy Family from 1937. His nudes in oil were appreciated, such as My Two Models from 1938 or Sein und Vergehen , which is one of his most famous works. In between, he repeatedly created portraits and self-portraits.

In 1944 the troop returned to Viktring. After the Nazi era he was largely forgotten, but in 1951 ex-Interior Minister Vinzenz Schumy and later the Governor of Carinthia , Ferdinand Wedenig , had him portray himself. Truppe founded a society of art lovers as well as a painting and drawing school and taught at the adult education center in Klagenfurt in the early 1950s . After two strokes had already brought his artistic work to a standstill, he died in 1959.

In 1964, the painter's widow gave the district home museum in Spittal an der Drau a larger selection of pictures from the estate for permanent presentation in the showrooms of Porcia Castle .

Over 500 portraits were created in the course of his long life. As a contemporary of the Nötscher Kreis and a Herbert Boeckl , Truppe did not always have it easy: his art was often perceived as anachronistic , and his painting style, which was lagging behind, was not recognized by art historians . Troop stood in the shadow of Wiegele , Anton Kolig , Clementschitsch and Boeckl . Truppe is particularly valued today as a master of the genre and still life.

literature

  • Felix Zimmermann: Karl Truppe - his becoming and creating , publishing house by RH Hammer, Vienna 1942, without ISBN
  • Anton Kreuzer: Carinthian portraits , Carinthia University Press, Klagenfurt 1993, p. 192f, ISBN 3-85378-407-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Felix Zimmermann: "Karl Truppe - sein Werden und Schaffen", Verlag von RH Hammer, Vienna 1942, without ISBN, pp. 3–12
  2. ↑ Dr. Felix Zimmermann: "Karl Truppe - sein Werden und Schaffen", Verlag von RH Hammer, Vienna 1942, without ISBN, pp. 15-19
  3. ↑ Dr. Felix Zimmermann: "Karl Truppe - sein Werden und Schaffen", published by RH Hammer, Vienna 1942, without ISBN, pp. 20-22
  4. ↑ Dr. Felix Zimmermann: "Karl Truppe - sein Werden und Schaffen", published by RH Hammer, Vienna 1942, without ISBN, pp. 23-28
  5. ↑ Dr. Felix Zimmermann: "Karl Truppe - sein Werden und Schaffen", published by RH Hammer, Vienna 1942, without ISBN, pp. 109–116
personal data
SURNAME Troop, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebenthal in Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1959
Place of death Klagenfurt