Oskar Laske

Oskar Laske (born January 8, 1874 in Chernivtsi , Bukowina , † November 30, 1951 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and painter .

Life

Oskar Laske's grave

As the son of the architect of the same name, Oskar Laske senior (1842–1911; designed, among other things, the 1. Wiener Mörtelfabrik, Handelskai 130, Vienna 2), Laske only received lessons from the landscape painter Anton Hlavacek during his youth . He graduated from the Schottenfelder Realschule in 1892 . After studying architecture at the Vienna Academy under Otto Wagner , he worked as a freelance architect and from 1904 mainly as a painter.

Frequently chosen motifs were watercolors from his travels in Europe and North Africa . These were mainly landscapes, town squares and genre scenes . His cheerful narrative style and his colorful painting are considered characteristic. Laske also worked as a graphic designer and book illustrator . From 1907 he was a member of the Hagenbund , from 1924 of the Vienna Secession and from 1928 of the Künstlerhaus Wien and participated in their exhibitions.

During the First World War he was an officer in Galicia and from 1915 on the Isonzo Front . Then he was accepted as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter . His experiences are reflected in numerous images of war, some of which are in the Army History Museum in Vienna.

Oskar Laske died in 1951 at the age of 77 in Vienna and is buried in the Lainzer Friedhof (group 3, number 170) in Hietzing.

There is a memorial plaque on his home at Nisselgasse 1 in Vienna- Penzing . In 1955 the Laskegasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after the artist, as was an alley in Neulengbach in 2005 (formerly Laa 1 - 4).

Honors

• 1932 Golden State Medal
• 1937 Reichel Prize
• 1948 Prize of the City of Vienna for painting and graphics

Works (excerpt)

painting

• Orpheus among the animals (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Inv. No. 4566), around 1938, oil on canvas, 72 × 56 cm.
• The witch dance
• Forest landscape with homestead and horse cart
• Skiing in Annaberg , exhibited in 1914 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition
• The Balkans and the Orient in the picture
• Barricade fight in Belgrade on October 9, 1915 (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum), oil on canvas.
• Breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian 12th Infantry Troop Division near Luzna in the Battle of Gorlice on May 2, 1915 (Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum), oil on canvas.

architecture

photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
			War memorial in Chernivtsi	Bukowina / Cernovci, Ukraine Coordinates are missing! Help.
		1899-1900	Villa Uzel	Vienna 13, Kopfgasse 8 location
		1900	Residential building	Vienna 10, Oberlaaer Strasse 233	destroyed Note: demolished
		1900-1901	Rental house Vienna 3	Linke Bahngasse 5 and 7 location	changed Note: with construction company Laske & Fiala, facade decoration knocked off
		1901-1902	Living u. "To the white angel" office building BDA-ID:  30608 Wikidata	Vienna 1, Bognergasse 9 / Naglergasse 10 location	Note: with construction company Laske & Fiala
		1902	Florahof BDA-ID:  6501 Wikidata	Vienna 5, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 88 location
		1902	Residential building	Vienna 7, Lerchenfelderstraße 139 Location	Note: with construction company Laske & Fiala
		1904	Residential building	Vienna 7, Neustiftgasse 67–69 Location	Note: with construction company Laske & Fiala
		1904	Residential building	Vienna 12, Arndtstraße 77 location	Note: with construction company Laske & Fiala
		1904	Consumer establishment of the Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik BDA-ID:  53352 Wikidata	Lower Austria location
		1904	Jörgerbad BDA-ID:  46565 Wikidata	Vienna 17, Jörgerstraße 42–44, wall paintings location	Note: Animals in Noah's Ark. In older photos next to the clock in the entrance area.
		1905	Residential building	Vienna 14, Teybergasse 8 location	Note: Address error in the source
		1907	Residential building	Vienna 2, Rustenschacherallee 30	destroyed Annotation: earlier: Prater Gürtelstrasse, demolished
		1908	Meat and sausage factory of the consumer establishment Berndorf BDA-ID:  53352 Wikidata	Berndorf location
		1908	White and black bakery of the consumer institute Berndorf BDA-ID:  53352 Wikidata	Berndorf location
		1908	The factory of the United Electricity Corporation	Vienna 10, Gudrunstraße 187	destroyed
		1915-1916	Business University BDA-ID:  52513 Wikidata	Vienna 19, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 location	Views of the ports of Constantinople, New York, Hamburg and Trieste in the side wall panels of the foyer

literature

• Erika Tietze-Conrat: Oskar Laske , 1921
• Fritz Novotny: Oskar Laske , 1954
• Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 , Vienna, 1981
• Marian explosive prakken:  Laske, Oskar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 649 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 3: Ha - La . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 .
• Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Hg.): No bigger than an ant. Oskar Laske and the First World War , catalog for the special exhibition April 11 to July 28, 2002. Vienna, 2002.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Laske  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiversity: Illustrations by Oskar Laske on Thomas Mann  - course materials

• Literature by and about Oskar Laske in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Oskar Laske in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Oskar Laske. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Oskar Laske. In: arch INFORM .
• Oskar Laske sen .. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• The color of tears - The First World War from the point of view of painters

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