Leo Delitz
Leo Delitz , also Leo Spiridion (born February 25 or 26, 1882 in Agram, today Zagreb , † February 1966 in London ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .
Life
The son of a sculptor studied at the Vienna Academy with Christian Griepenkerl and Kazimierz Pochwalski from 1898 to 1904 , and he also studied with Ludwig von Herterich in Munich and Paris .
From 1905 to 1910 Delitz was a member of the Hagenbund , from 1914 of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . From 1911 he sent numerous exhibitions.
During the First World War , Delitz registered as a war painter at the Imperial and Royal War Press Headquarters and was artistically active in the Russian , Italian and Romanian theater of war.
Delitz is counted as part of the Zinkenbacher painter colony , among his landscapes from the Salzkammergut his pictures of the Grundlsee are known. In the 1930s he received several prizes and awards, including the Austrian State Prize in 1937. Delitz took Arthur Schnitzler's death mask off in 1931 and drew the deceased from nature.
After he emigrated to England in 1938, Delitz managed to establish himself as a portraitist for high society.
Individual evidence
- ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 17
Web links
- The Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie Website of the museum in Abersee with a short biography of Delitz
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Delitz, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Agram, today Zagreb |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1966 |
| Place of death | London |