Oskar Larsen
Oskar Larsen (born July 8, 1882 in Vienna ; † September 12, 1972 ibid) was an Austrian history and genre painter and graphic artist .
Life
Larsen was born the son of the Danish painter Carl Christian Larsen. From 1897 to 1901 he attended the graphic teaching and research institute in Vienna under Viktor Jasper and Joseph Eugen Hörwarter . He then completed his training at the Vienna Art Academy under Alois Delug until 1909 .
From 1906 to 1909 he worked with Hubert Lanzinger and Alfred Buchta on cardboard boxes for a series of 14 inlays intended for the town hall in Bolzano . In the First World War Larsen served as a war artist worked. He stayed in Germany from 1932 to 1942.
Works with biblical and mythological references were Larsen's preferred works. Because of their rich imagination and unmistakable coloring, they earned the artist the reputation of a painter-poet during his lifetime. His paintings The Robbery of the Sabine Women and Land of Cockaigne are kept in the Wien Museum .
Oskar Larsen was buried on September 20, 1972 in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 40, No. 3).
Memberships
- Member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus
- Member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London
Awards
- 1924: Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
- 1969: Vienna Medal of Honor in silver
- 1975: Golden laurel from the Vienna Künstlerhaus
Works (selection)
- 1916: Woman and children in a landscape
- 1917: Rest on the flight to Egypt
- 1918: Orpheus
- 1919: meeting
- 1924: May evening
- 1929: idyll
- 1932: Diana
- 1938: Heaven on earth
- 1947: floating couple
- 1951: Bacchanal
- 1959: The Guardian Angel
Web links
- Larsen's works on www.mutualart.com , accessed March 29, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Oscar Larsen, personal data in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Larsen's grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery , accessed on March 29, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Larsen, Oskar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Larsen, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian history and genre painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1972 |
| Place of death | Vienna |