Leo Adler (painter)
Leo Adler (born January 19, 1897 in Wels , Austria-Hungary , † February 21, 1987 in Ried im Traunkreis ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .
Life
Leo Adler, son of the leather manufacturer Leopold Adler, a graduate of the State Trade School in Asch in Bohemia , did military service on the Russian and Italian fronts during the First World War . It was at this time that his first drawings and the large painting "Storming Monte Gabriele" were created for the then Linz Hessen Museum. However, Adler was not a war painter in the Austro-Hungarian war press office .
Leo Adler then studied with Professor Ferdinand Andri at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1919 to 1924 , then he lived as a freelance artist in Vienna until he moved to Linz in 1928 . In the early 1930s, study trips took him to Italy and Istria . During the Second World War , Adler worked as a war painter in France , Spain and Serbia .
Adler lived in Micheldorf from 1945 to 1951 before returning to Linz. Adler was a member of the Innviertel Artists' Guild , worked as a committee member of the Upper Austrian Art Association until 1938 and as a specialist advisor to the Reich Chamber of Culture from 1938 to 1945 .
Leo Adler was honored with important prizes, among other things he received the State Prize for the landscape painting "Spätwinter" in 1929 , the Honorary Prize of the City of Vienna in 1932, and the State Prize of the Federal Ministry for Education and Art in 1934 and 1936. In 1973 he was appointed Professor hc
Adler's complete oeuvre, who dealt with landscapes , architecture and the artistic representation of work and technology, includes, among other things, an oil painting of the construction of the Steyregger Bridge, three large-scale plans for VÖEST , oil paintings and graphics for the Linz nitrogen works , and five large oil paintings of the construction of the Ybbs-Persenbeug power station and graphic studies of the construction of the Upper Austrian Enns power station .
Works by Leo Adler are in the possession of the Albertina Vienna , the Upper Austrian State Museum Linz, the City Museum Wels and the Vienna Army History Museum .
Works (excerpt)
- The baptism of fire of the Linz Hessians ( Kuk Upper Austrian Infantry Regiment "Ernst Ludwig Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine" No. 14 ) , 1914/15, oil on canvas, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
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On the essence of architecture . Architecture as an event and appearance. Attempt to lay the foundations for architectural science. Series: Vom Wesen der Baukunst, 1. First and Second Book. Asia Major, Leipzig 1926
- Reprint: Gebr. Mann Verlag , Berlin 2000. With a new epilogue.
literature
- Kurt Holter , Gilbert Trathnigg : Wels from primeval times to the present. In: Yearbook of the Wels Museum Association. Volume 10, Kommissionsverlag Eugen Friedhuber, Wels 1964, p. 185, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
- Franz Engl : Obituary in the yearbook of the Innviertler Künstlergilde 1987/88. P. 124.
- Rudolf Lehr : Landeschronik Upper Austria: 3000 years in data, documents and images. Brandstätter, Vienna 2004, ISBN 385498331X , pp. 274 and 309.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1
- ↑ Deceased and retired guild masters (as of 1998) in: www.innviertler-kuenstlergilde.at
- ^ Franz Engl , in: Web presence of Regiowiki.at
Web links
- Short article on Leo Adler in: Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon.
- Short article on Leo Adler in: wwwg.uni-klu.ac.at
- Short article on Leo Adler in: www.galerieseidler.at
- Three works by Leo Adler in: www.artnet.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adler, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | catfish |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1987 |
| Place of death | Ried in the Traunkreis |