Leo Grimm

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Leo Grimm (born February 7, 1889 in Ilz , Austria-Hungary , † April 23, 1916 in Graz , Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

Life

Leo Grimm was the son of the elementary school teacher Hugo Grimm. In 1894 the family moved to Heinrichstrasse in Graz. When he switched to grammar school in 1900, he discovered his love for art - also through his drawing teacher Ladislaus Pazdirek. He drew his classmates and designed the school leaving certificate, which he published with Bruno Euler.

Early in 1909 he met with  Franz Hofer  in the class of Alfred Schrötter of Kristelli at the National Art School in Graz, but from where he was already in the autumn of 1909 with Hofer at the Academy of Fine Arts moved to Vienna and Rudolf Jettmar and Ferdinand Schmutzer learned . He was supported by a grant from the Styrian State Committee.

In 1911 he moved into an apartment in Maria-Theresien Schlössel in Döbling with Franz Hofer and Fritz Silberbauer (an old friend of Hofer's) . At the academy, he wins the perspective award and the silver Fügiger medal. In 1912 he learned the technique of etching, with which he had already gained self-taught experience on the recommendation of Franz Hofer.

Grimm suffered from breathing difficulties and in the summer of 1913 traveled with an aunt to rest via Venice to Istria . In 1914 he visited Upper Austria and created some views of Linz's old town. Due to his poor health, he was given leave of absence from the academy and finally died on April 23, 1916 in his hometown.

Act

The etchings are under the technical and artistic influence of Franz Hofer, as he familiarized him with the technology. Some of his etchings have been reworked for tonality with emery paper and resemble works by  Frank Brangwyn , who was received at the academy by Ferdinand Schmutzer. Occasionally he combines his work with aquatint and reworks it with the  roulette .

He created portraits, landscapes as well as symbolic and fairy tale representations. He had a tendency towards the gloomy and the fantastic, which is particularly evident in his melancholy landscapes.

Works

Old Styrian peasant woman

The estate with drawings and sketchbooks as well as the complete collection of 45 etchings are in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Another large collection of graphics and paintings can be found in the Neue Galerie Graz as part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum .

  • Fairy tales , Neue Galerie Graz, 1916
  • Portrait of a gentleman , Neue Galerie Graz, 1910
  • Old Styrian farmer's wife , Neue Galerie Graz

literature

  • Erich Strohmer: Leo Grimm - Leo Grimm's etchings (2 essays with catalog raisonné), Vienna 1920

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilz (Styria) , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1916
Place of death Graz , Austria-Hungary