Louis Hofbauer

Still life with flowers in a brass vase and pieces of jewelry

Urn grave of Louis Hofbauer in the Salzburg municipal cemetery

Louis Hofbauer (born October 26, 1889 in Yalta , † June 1, 1932 in Munderfing ) was an Austrian painter .

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His father was Viennese , his mother came from Klosterneuburg . He grew up in the Vienna area and studied in 1905/06 at the graphic teaching and research institute with Otto Prutscher . From 1907 to 1911 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Franz Rumpler , who made it possible for him to spend a longer period in Italy with a grant. He then began exhibiting in Vienna. During the First World War he was the renovation of the Baroque - frescoes of the Olomouc Garrison Church employs. After the war he moved to Straßwalchen , was in Bozen in 1923/24 and lived in Munderfing from 1925. In 1923 he was a co-founder of the Innviertel artists' guild . After his death he was given an urn grave in the Salzburg municipal cemetery , in which Karl Hosaeus was later buried.

The four painters of the memorial exhibition , in: Neue Warte am Inn , 1960, memorial exhibition on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Braunau am Inn with the painters Louis Hofbauer, Aloys Wach , Hugo von Preen and Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth
Commemorating Louis Hofbauer , in: Rieder Volkszeitung, vol. 87, Ried 1977
Carl Hans Watzinger : Louis Hofbauer and Munderfing , in: Yearbook of the Innviertler Künstlergilde 1977/78, Ried, 1977, pp 49 to 54
Carl Hans Watzinger: Louis Hofbauer or the completion of a painter's life in the Innviertel, Upper Austrian culture magazine, vol. 27 (1977), issue 4, p. 37 to 42
Court farmer Louis. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 372.

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