Oskar Alexander

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Take-off of the L42 seaplane in the port of Trieste (HGM).

Arthur Oskar Alexander (born February 20, 1876 in Agram , † April 16, 1953 in Samobor near Zagreb) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait and genre painter .

Life

Oskar Alexander studied with Bauer in Zagreb in 1892/93, at the Vienna Art Academy in 1893/94 , at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1894–96 and again at the Vienna Academy with Franz Matsch and Franz Rumpler from 1898–99 . He then lived in Paris until 1905, after which he settled in Vienna.

In 1897 he was co-founder and member of the Society of Croatian Artists in Zagreb. In 1905 he was represented for the first time in the Hagenbund , from 1908 to 1931 he was a member of the Hagenbund.

From 1915 Alexander served as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter and was on long front-line excursions in Belgrade and Trieste ; in the autumn of 1916 on the Russian theater of war and in the last two years of the war on the Isonzo front . There he mainly portrayed naval aviators . As a member of the jury at war painting exhibitions, he was also able to regularly make his own works available to the public. In May 1937 he organized a collective exhibition in Vienna's Burggarten which contained all of his aviator paintings from the First World War .

In the interwar period , Alexander lived as a royal Hungarian professor in Vienna. Persecuted during the Nazi era because of his Jewish origins, he left Vienna in 1938, returned to Croatia and settled in Samobor.

He mainly painted impressionist landscapes, portraits and figure pictures. Alexander portrayed Èmile Zola , Oscar Wilde , Engelbert Dollfuss and Josip Broz Tito , among others .

Exhibitions and works in museums

He exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, solo exhibitions in 1937 in the Glass Palace in Vienna's Burggarten (aviator pictures and other works), 1944 in Zagreb, 1946 in Samobor and 1998 in the Umjetnicki Paviljon in Zagreb. Works by him include Belvedere, Army History Museum Vienna, Modern Gallery Zagreb, City Museum Zagreb.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Feldpilot Rudolf Stanger , 1915, oil on canvas, 85 × 61 cm ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna)
  • Take-off of the L42 seaplane from the port of Trieste , 1915, oil on canvas, 65.5 × 89 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Field pilot in front of the L42 seaplane , 1915, oil on canvas, 103 × 80 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Portrait of the battleship lieutenant Gustav Klasing , 1915, oil on canvas, 90 × 66 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Portrait of the battleship lieutenant Franz Mikuleczky , 1915, oil on canvas, 132.5 × 80 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Portrait of Feldpilot Hauptmann Ferdinand Ritter Cavallar von Grabensprung , 1916, oil on canvas, 87 × 57.5 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Portrait of Feldpilot Hauptmann Matthias Bernath , 1916, oil on canvas, 84 × 58.5 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna)
  • Shot down French plane , 1916, pencil and colored chalk on paper, 34.4 × 46.5 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)

literature

  • Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): Flies 90/71 , catalog for the exhibition, Volume 2: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings . Vienna 1971.
  • Božena Šurina: Aleksander (Alexander), Oskar Artur . In: Hrvatski biografski leksikon Volume 1, Zagreb 1983, p. 71.
  • Božena Šurina: Aleksander, Oskar Artur . In: Likovna enciklopedija Jugoslavije Volume 1, Zagreb 1984, p. 6.
  • Elisabeth Hülmbauer: Art of the 19th Century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 19th Century . Volume 1: A – E , ed. from the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna 1992, p. 25.

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. 28 f.
  2. ↑ Peter Chrástek: Hagenbund and its artists . Ed .: Wien Museum, Association of Friends and Scientific Research of the Hagenbund. 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504059-1-0 , pp. 21 .

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personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander, Arthur Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Agram
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1953
Place of death Samobor