Oskar Gawell

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Oskar Gawell (born February 19, 1888 in Chawlodno , Prussia , today Poland , † March 14, 1955 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian painter . Gawell devoted himself mainly to genre and landscape painting in his work . He preferred motifs with lakes, boats and houses.

Life

From 1909 to 1912 he studied at the academies in Breslau and Weimar . In 1913/14 he was a student of Lovis Corinth in Berlin . At the first exhibition of the Free Secession Berlin in 1914, he was with works alongside Max Oppenheimer , Max Pechstein , Pablo Picasso , Camille Pissarro and others. a. represented. During this time he was in close contact with the bridge's artists . In 1926 he was awarded the Albrecht Dürer Prize by the city of Nuremberg . From Weimar he went to the artist colony Nida on the Curonian Spit , where he is said to have painted repeatedly in the 1920s. In 1926 he worked in Positano . He was u. a. friends with Marc Chagall and Oskar Kokoschka and exhibited together with Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Zwickau in 1927 . In 1929 he traveled by ship from Holland to Algiers and from Königsberg to Finland . In 1931 he stayed in Masuria . Study trips to Belgium , Italy , Spain and Romania followed .

Oskar Gawell's tomb in the Neustift cemetery

Until 1937 he was a professor at the Städtische Kunstschule in Berlin, where he was also involved in exhibitions at the Berlin Secession . In 1937 he lost his teaching post due to the National Socialist cultural policy. From 1938 he was based in Vienna. He received Austrian citizenship in 1947 and in 1949 he was awarded the title of professor at the Vienna Academy . Gawell was a member of the German Association of Artists and the Berlin Secession, where his works were exhibited in the J. Casper Gallery. From 1946 he was a member of the Vienna Secession , which showed an exhibition of his works from March 12 to March 31, 1949. He succumbed to serious accidental injuries in 1953 after one and a half years in a sick bed and died on March 14, 1955 in Vienna, where he was buried in the Neustift cemetery .

Today Gawell's works can be seen in the Belvedere and Leopold Museum in Vienna as well as in museums in Darmstadt, Hamburg, Berlin and Prague.

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SURNAME Gawell, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Chawlodno , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1955
Place of death Vienna