Karl Wiener (graphic artist)

Karl Wiener (born  January 26, 1901 in Graz , †  April 29, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian draftsman , graphic artist and photo montage artist . Because of his political and time-critical montages of the 1930s and 1940s, he was posthumously referred to as the Austrian John Heartfield on the occasion of the major retrospective on his estate in the Wien Museum .

biography

Karl Wiener was the son of Maria Kriebel and Friedrich Wiener, the proofreader at the Graz printing company "Typographia", which belonged to the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) . Father and son were party members there until the SDAP was dissolved by the corporate state in 1934 .

Karl attended the state high school and then worked as a bank clerk in Graz and Munich .

He did not begin his artistic training until 1924, at the age of 23, at the "Ständische Drawingsakademie" (State Art School) in Graz and continued his studies in painting and graphics at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Bertold Löffler and writing under Rudolf von Larisch until 1931 . He then supplemented his studies with graphics under Rudolf Jettmar and graduated in 1932.

A travel grant took him through Germany to Sweden and Denmark in 1930 and to Moscow in 1935 .

Until the death of his father in 1937 he was closely connected to his hometown Graz and only then did he finally move to Vienna.

From 1940 he was a teacher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts until he was fired in 1947 and then increasingly worked as an illustrator for social democratic media.

Since his studio in Vienna was bombed out in 1945, his depression intensified. In 1949 he took his own life with light gas.

Awards

• 1929 Silver Medal from the City of Graz
• 1932 Austrian State Prize Medal

Exhibitions

• 1929–1935 Show of the Steiermärkischer Kunstverein , (Werkbund), Graz
• 1931 Exhibition by the Upper Austrian Art Association , Linz
• 1935 exhibitions, Moscow
• 1946 Work and press review together with Otto Rudolf Schatz , in the Vienna City Hall , Vienna
• 1946 Never forget! in the Wiener Künstlerhaus , Vienna
• 1946 Exhibition of Viennese painters in Salzburg , Salzburg
• 1984 Karl Wiener , Galerie Moser, Graz
• 2001 Modernism in Dark Times , Neue Galerie Graz , Graz
• 2003 Masterpieces of Styrian Modernism , Rabenstein Castle , Frohnleiten
• 2010 battle for the city. Politics, art and everyday life around 1930 , Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
• 2010 erotic, porn. Border shifts 1900 to 1970 , Pavelhaus , Bad Radkersburg
• 2011 Lost in the museum. The artist Karl Wiener , Wien Museum, Vienna

Museums

His works can be found in the following institutions:

• State Museum of New Western Art, Moscow (acquired in 1935)
• Museum of Fine Arts Moscow (acquired in 1935)
• City Collection Vienna (acquired in 1935)
• Wien Museum (artistic estate 1965)

Web links

• Karl Wiener and assembly as a political outlet
• Lost in the museum. The artist Karl Wiener
• Karl Wiener - missing in the museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer: Karl Wiener and assembly as a political outlet, Wiener Zeitung from Tuesday, May 10, 2011
2. ^ Marion Krammer: Verschollen im Museum, Der Künsterler Karl Wiener, Illustrated for the exhibition, Wien Museum, 2011
3. ^ Lost in the museum. The artist Karl Wiener ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2018 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.