Leopold Schmid (artist)

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Leopold Schmid (born July 16, 1901 in Vienna ; † September 26, 1989 there ) was an Austrian painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramist.

Life

Schmid, son of a postal savings bank clerk, studied from 1918 to 1925 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Ferdinand Andri . He then worked as a freelance painter, working in particular with architects.

Schmid was banned from working in 1938 and did military service from 1940 to 1945. As a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien he was excluded from it in 1940/1941, but was appointed honorary president in 1956 and an honorary member on December 2, 1971.

In 1952 he was appointed professor. Among other things, he was awarded the “Great Austrian State Prize” in 1931, the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts in 1964 and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class in 1972.

Majolica on the "residential tower" of the August-Fürst-Hof

Schmid was married to Mathilde Köhler (1901–1992) from 1925 and was buried on October 11, 1989 at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 73, row 29, number 41).

Act

As early as 1934, Schmid designed the stone carvings for the hero monument in the Outer Burgtor in Vienna. In 1950 he created one of the first sgraffiti on a residential complex in Lower Austria in Stockerau (Klesheimstrasse) . In 1955 he designed a work of art with majolica over the entire height of a nine-story high-rise apartment building in Vienna. Schmid also created numerous works outside of Vienna.

Web links

Commons : Leopold Schmid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Vienna 1997 ( online )
  2. ↑ Friedhöfe Wien: Grabsuche [1] ; accessed on April 18, 2018
  3. ↑ Katharina Blaas-Pratscher: Published art, art in public space ; Springerverlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 978-3-662-40731-8

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lt. Historical Lexicon Vienna. According to other sources, the place of death is also given as Gutenbrunn ; for example at Dorotheum [2] .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1989
Place of death Vienna