Leo Bernhard Eichhorn
Leo Bernhard Eichhorn (born February 13, 1872 in Lemberg ; † 1956 ) was an Austrian genre and history painter .
Life
Eichhorn studied at the Vienna Academy from 1889 to 1896 , his teachers were Kasimir Pochwalski and August Eisenmenger . From 1903 he was a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna.
During the First World War , from around the beginning of 1917, Eichhorn performed his land storm service with the Vienna Infantry Regiment No. 4 "Hoch- und Deutschmeister" . In August he was accepted as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter . His front excursions took him to Transylvania and the Italian front .
Works (selection)
- Aircraft inspection after returning , 1918, black chalk on paper, 36.4 × 41.5 cm ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
literature
- Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flies 90/71", catalog for the exhibition, Volume II: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flies 90/71", catalog for the exhibition, Volume II: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971, p. 24 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichhorn, Leo Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian genre and history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1956 |