Ludwig Hesshaimer

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Ludwig Hesshaimer (born March 10, 1872 in Kronstadt , Transylvania , † January 10, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro ) was an Austrian draftsman , etcher and illustrator .

Life

Hesshaimer was originally a career officer , after nine years of service in the troops he became a drawing teacher at various military educational institutions of the Habsburg monarchy . When the First World War broke out , he was in Sarajevo . Briefly on leave from military service, Hesshaimer studied at the Vienna Academy and trained in etching at the graphic teaching and research institute under Ludwig Michalek .

From February 1915, Hesshaimer was a member of the art group in the kuk war press quarter . He worked in Galicia and Bukowina , in 1916 on the Balkan war theater and later as an art group leader and liaison officer in the army group of Archduke Eugene in South Tyrol . Hesshaimer even made it to the position of deputy head of the art group in the war press headquarters. He was one of the first artists to exhibit their war drawings in Vienna.

As an officer and draftsman in the Austro-Hungarian war press headquarters, Hesshaimer wrote an autobiographical account of his work as a war painter. He describes his fellow artists as productive and hardworking throughout, except for one: Carl Leopold Hollitzer , who would have been a “wealthy bohemian” but “lazy and malicious”. “He preferred to sit in cabarets, where he sang Landsknechtslieder, or in coffee houses, where he caricatured his surroundings on paper napkins and beer mats.” Hollitzer, on the other hand, joked about Hesshaimer and others' enthusiasm for work, and is supposed to ask about Hesshaimer over lunch He replied: “Yes, he has to quickly draw a sheet of paper before the soup, otherwise he won't like it.” Hesshaimer's drawings from the war sometimes become caricatured , even if these by no means have the biting character of Hollitzer's work exhibit.

After the Second World War , Hesshaimer lived in Brazil .

Works (selection)

  • Captive balloon of the fortress artillery regiment No. 3 near Gory , 1915, colored chalk on paper, 39.5 × 28.6 cm ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Captive balloon near Lemberg , 1915, pencil on paper, 16.1 × 22.7 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna)

literature

  • Ludwig Hesshaimer: Miniatures from the monarchy. An Austro-Hungarian officer tells with a pencil. ed. by Okky Offerhaus, Vienna, 1992.
  • 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.
  • Adalbert Stifter Verein (ed.): Muses to the front! Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918. Exhibition catalog (2 volumes), Munich, 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 29 f.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Hesshaimer: Miniatures from the monarchy. An Austro-Hungarian officer narrates with a pencil, ed. von Okky Offerhaus, Vienna, 1992, quoted in: Adalbert Stifter Verein (Ed.): Muses to the Front! Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918. Exhibition catalog (2 volumes), Munich, 2003, volume 2, p. 65.
personal data
SURNAME Hesshaimer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1956
Place of death Rio de Janeiro