Nötscher circle
The Nötsch circle of painters Sebastian Isepp , Anton Kolig , Franz Wiegele and Anton Mahringer did not have its own program: Nötsch in the Gailtal was at times the domicile of painters whose art was previously examined almost exclusively from an art-historical perspective.
Anton Kolig came to Vienna in 1906 ; like Isepp, he frequented the Viennese salons of Eugenie Schwarzwald and Berta Zuckerkandl . In 1911 the Nötsch painters went public with Oskar Kokoschka , Anton Faistauer and Egon Schiele in the " Hagenbund Exhibition". Franz Wiegele and Anton Kolig received a scholarship for Paris in 1912 , where they stayed until the beginning of the First World War and studied modern French painting.
Wiegele made contact with Egon Schiele, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Josef Hoffmann in Vienna and, after a two-year stay in Paris in Algeria , was taken prisoner by the French in 1914 , but was able to move to Zurich in 1916 , where he stayed with the composer Othmar Schoeck until 1925 . Isepp, Kolig and Wiegele made contact with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his group; here the painters also received the orders for the large portraits. In 1928 Kolig received a professorship at the Stuttgart Art Academy , which he held until 1943.
The Klagenfurt country house frescos painted by Kolig and his students in 1928/30 were knocked off by the National Socialists in 1938 . Sebastian Isepp belonged to the circle around the composer Egon Wellesz . He accompanied Hofmannsthal on several trips to Italy and served him as a model in the play " The Difficult ".
Kolig's correspondence with Alfred Kubin , Stefan Zweig , Michael Guttenbrunner and Werner Berg shows Kolig's efforts to set up a workshop in Nötsch, which at times included Gerhart Frankl and Theodor Herzmansky . Anton Mahringer was Kolig's most important student. He came from the Stuttgart school group, but soon developed as an independent landscape painter. Isepp emigrated to England in 1938 , where he remained friends with Kokoschka, Wiegele was killed in a bomb attack in 1944, in which Kolig was also injured, who died in Nötsch in 1950. Anton Mahringer († 1974) continued the “Nötscher School”, whose works were also recognized internationally (Venice Biennale, Carnegie exhibitions in Pittsburgh, etc.).
museum
The Museum of the Nötscher Circle in the house where Franz Wiegeles was born in Nötsch is dedicated to the Nötscher Kreis .
literature
- Edwin Lachnit: Wrestling with the angel. Anton Kolig - Franz Wiegele - Sebastian Isepp - Gerhart Frankl . Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-205-98837-X
- Wilhelm Baum (Eds.), Monika Thyssen-Mahringer, Heimo Kuchling : "Works of art are stations on the Passion Path to a lost paradise." (A. Kolig). Letters and documents on the “Nötscher Circle” by the painters S. Isepp, A. Kolig, F. Wiegele u. A. Mahringer . Klagenfurt 2004, ISBN 3-902005-23-8
- Wilhelm Baum: Anton Kolig and Franz Wiegele. The Austrian painters of the "Nötsch circle" and Vienna about 1900 . Klagenfurt 2005, ISBN 3-902005-50-5
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum of the Nötscher District. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .