Leopold Resch (painter)
Leopold Resch (born November 11, 1877 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs , † November 14, 1937 in Villach ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor, as well as Carinthian costume researcher and caretaker.
Growing up in the Carinthian part of Pontafel on the Austrian-Italian border, he attended the carving and turning school in Malborgeth , then the arts and crafts school for carving and painting in Vienna . From 1906 he was a teacher at the construction and arts and crafts school in Klagenfurt.
Resch studied from October 15, 1910 at the drawing school of the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Gabriel von Hackl .
Leopold Resch was a co-founder of the Carinthian Landsmannschaft and the Carinthian State Museum in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee . He was appointed to the faculty at the arts and crafts school in Klagenfurt, then in Villach.
Resch is considered to be the greatest painter of traditional costumes and traditions in Carinthia. On behalf of the Carinthian Landsmannschaft, in 1911 he designed the Carinthian suit and the Carinthian Blaupunkt dirndl known as the “Resch dirndl”. On the initiative of the Carinthian Customs Association and the Carinthian Chamber of Commerce, Resch created a costume for carpenters.
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| SURNAME | Resch, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian costume painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waidhofen an der Ybbs |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1937 |
| Place of death | Villach |