Kurt Moldovan

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Kurt Moldovan (born June 22, 1918 in Vienna ; † September 16, 1977 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Moldovan learned the trade of precision mechanic , but at the age of 20 he decided to pursue an artistic career and began studying commercial and illustration graphics at the Vienna School of Applied Arts (now the University of Applied Arts ). From 1940 to 1945 he served as a soldier on the Eastern Front. In 1945 he enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in Sergius Pauser's master class and attended the evening act with Herbert Boeckl . He was also known for his vedute and landscape painting in watercolor technique .

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Moldovan was a founding member of the Austrian section of the Art Club . In 1949 he received the prize of the Society for the Promotion of Modern Art, the Albertina and Monsignore Otto Mauer bought works. Moldovan took part in the Venice (1950) and São Paulo (1954) biennials . Moldovan's works were shown in the Austria pavilion at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels.

Moldovan was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, no. 52).

Prizes and awards

In 1968 he received the Great Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts ; In 1970 he became a member of the Austrian Art Senate .

Publications

  • 1956: Introduction to Marc Chagall . Arabian nights, 26 lithographs for 1001 nights . Piper library, Piper Verlag, Munich.

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: Kurt Moldovan. Drawings. For the exhibition at the Kestner Society in Hanover from December 16 to January 15, 1967. With an introduction by Wieland Schmied .
  • Moldovan - Kreuz und Quer , Otto Breicha, Verlag Kunsthandlung Welz, Salzburg 1980. ISBN 978-3-85349-080-8 .
  • Otto Breicha (introduction): Kurt Moldovan: Das Druckgrafische Werk. With a catalog raisonné, compiled by Franz Eder, Verlag Kunsthandlung Welz, Salzburg 1990. ISBN 978-3-85349-146-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Moldovan , website of the German Watercolor Society, accessed on February 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ Graves of honor at the Vienna Central Cemetery , PDF, 10.5 MB, page 143.
personal data
SURNAME Moldovan, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1977
Place of death Vienna