Max von Poosch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Max von Poosch
Combat squadron D3 over the Brenta Group, 1917
The Battle of Kolin , fresco in the HGM.
The Battle of Kolin, detail signature.

Max Edler von Poosch (born June 16, 1872 in Pula , † March 23, 1968 in Vienna , also Max von Poosch-Gablenz ) was an Austrian portrait , landscape and war painter .

Life

The son of an Austro-Hungarian naval officer , he was born in the Austrian seaport town of Pula. From 1889 he studied at the Vienna Academy under Franz Rumpler , later also at the Weimar Art School under Carl Frithjof Smith . Study trips took him to Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and Scandinavia . Poosch was a member and juror of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative .

Drafted into the First World War as a reserve officer , Poosch served as commandant of a heavy howitzer battery on the Russian front. In autumn 1915 he applied for a post as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter and was accepted on October 20, 1915. In the captain's rank he first painted pictures of the Danube flotilla . In the spring of 1916 he worked on the Albanian theater of war, later on the Italian front in South Tyrol ( Ortler area , Valsugana ). In November he stayed with the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops of the 11th Army in the Sugana sector. In May 1918, Poosch was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with war decorations and swords. Until September 1918 he was included in the registry lists of the war press quarter.

From 1938 to 1944 he stayed in Berlin. Poosch exhibited in 1939, 1940 and 1942 as part of the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich. Works by him were purchased for the planned Führermuseum in Linz.

After the war he was commissioned to restore the frescoes in the Hall of Fame of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , which had been partially destroyed by an air raid in 1944 and originally came from the hand of Karl von Blaas . Since Blaas' original designs were still preserved, he was able to restore the frescoes exactly in their original state. The work was completed in the early 1950s.

His final resting place is in the Dornbacher Friedhof in Vienna.

Awards

literature

  • 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.
  • Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918. Vienna 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Österreichisches Heeresmuseum (Ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 7
  2. ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 183.
  3. ^ 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. 36 f.
  4. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918. Vienna 1981, p. 40.
  5. ^ Poosch-Gablenz, Max , in: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 8, edited by: Rudolf Vierhaus, KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 25. De Gruyter database online (with access rights )
  6. ^ Acquisitions by the Führer from the "Great German Art Exhibition 1939". In: Library of Congress . Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  7. ^ Acquisitions by the Führer from the "Great German Art Exhibition 1940". In: Library of Congress . Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Max von Poosch. In: wien.gv.at. January 15, 2019, accessed September 7, 2019 .
  9. ^ Wilhelm Lauser : Art news . In: General Art Chronicle . tape  XVI , no. 16 . Vienna July 20, 1892, p. 397 (other sources report the award year 1896).
  10. ↑ a b The painter Max von Poosch. For his 75th birthday . In: Salzburger Volkszeitung . No.  134 , June 16, 1947, pp. 2 .
  11. ^ Theater, art, music. Artist house . In: Reichspost . No.  161 , April 7, 1911, pp. 7 .

Web links

Commons : Max von Poosch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Poosch, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poosch-Gablenz, Max von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Pula
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1968
Place of death Vienna