Oskar Icha

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Oskar Icha (born October 11, 1886 in Vienna ; † October 1, 1945 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .

life and work

Relief by Oskar Icha on the community building at Pfenninggeldgasse 3–7

Oskar Icha studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . There was one Anton Hanak his teachers. The academy honored him several times. He received the Gundel Prize in 1911 , the Dumba Prize in 1914, a state travel grant in 1919 and the Reichel Prize in 1921 - for the plastic group Verunlickt .

Icha created several war memorials , for example in Aspern . He made sculptures for cemeteries, for example for the mortuary of the Neustift cemetery , the grave stele of the Witzeny family with a relief of the risen Christ at the Jedleseer Friedhof and a relief of a cross with a rose bush on the grave of the Stollewerk family at the Stammersdorfer central cemetery . In 1927 he produced a Beethoven relief for the Erdődy estate in Jedlesee . The city of Vienna commissioned him in 1930 to the design of several reliefs for the council Pfenninggeldgasse 3-7 in Ottakring represent parents and children playing. In 1931 he won a gold medal from the Albrecht Dürer Bund for his fountain sculpture Little Brother and Little Sister .

Together with the architects Hans Rudolf Richter and Fritz Sammer , Oskar Icha took part in competitions: in 1935 for a monument to the work on Schmerlingplatz and in 1936 for a Vienna monument to Emperor Franz Joseph I. He was a member of the Kunstgemeinschaft , an association of visual artists in Vienna, in whose exhibitions in the Palmenhaus he was represented and in which he was elected auditor in 1931 .

Oskar Icha died of suicide in 1945 . He was buried at the Jedleseer Friedhof. In 1971 Ichagasse in Donaufeld was named after him.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Icha  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Felix Czeike (Ed.): Ichagasse. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 299 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Academy of Fine Arts. In:  Wiener Zeitung , July 9, 1911, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  3. ^ Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In:  Wiener Zeitung , June 28, 1914, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  4. ↑ Art. In:  Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung , August 31, 1919, p. 19 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oiz
  5. ↑ Theater and Art. In:  Wiener Zeitung , June 17, 1921, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  6. ^ Dehio Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 645-647 .
  7. ^ Dehio Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 637 .
  8. ↑ Residential complex Pfenninggeldgasse 3–7. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Award ceremony in the Albrecht-Dürer-Bund . In: Austrian Art. Monthly magazine for fine arts and their relationship to cultural life , May 1931, p. 26 (online at ANNO )
  10. ↑ Fritz Sammer. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  11. ↑ The Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Monument. Report of the judges of the ideas competition . In: Profile. Austrian monthly for fine arts , 4th year, issue 12, 1936, p. 547 (online at ANNO ).
  12. ^ Otto Borschke:  Spring exhibition of the art community. In:  Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung , May 25, 1930, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oiz
  13. ^ Association of Austrian Visual Artists "Art Community" . In: Austrian Art. Monthly for the fine arts and their relationship to cultural life , February 1931, p. 32 (online at ANNO ).
  14. ↑ Oskar Icha in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at, accessed on March 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Icha, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1945
Place of death Vienna