Oskar Matulla

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Oskar Matulla (born November 4, 1900 in Vienna ; † October 13, 1982 ibid) was an Austrian graphic artist , painter and writer .

Life

Oskar Matulla was born in Vienna in 1900 as the son of a master locksmith. After elementary and community school, he attended the teacher training institute and from 1918–1920 the arts and crafts school in Vienna with Franz Cizek . After working as an assistant at Cizek, he worked as a drawing teacher in Bruck an der Leitha . In 1927 he was again at the arts and crafts school, now with Erich Mallina, to deal with the technique of wood engraving . In 1929 he became a member of the Central Association of Fine Artists of Austria and, after the annexation of Austria, a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . From 1940 he was used again as an art teacher.

After the Second World War , he stayed in Hengersberg near Passau until 1947 , where he became a member of the Danube Forest Group - a loose association of visual artists who lived and worked in the area or the catchment area of ​​the Bavarian Forest. In 1947 he returned to Lower Austria, lived in Perchtoldsdorf and gave up teaching . From 1948 to 1950 he was studying again at the Graphic Education and Research Institute and in 1949 with Josef Dobrowsky at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1955 he was in Paris at the Mourlot Studios for further training in the lithographic disciplines.

In 1950 he became a member of the Vienna Secession and in 1956 its vice-president. He also ran painting courses at adult education centers in Vienna. In 1964 he was the founder of Group 64 as an association of Lower Austrian artists, this group existed until 1972. He was also a member of the Wiener Neustädter Artists' Association .

In addition to oil paintings and watercolors, graphics played a decisive role in Matulla's work, using a wide variety of techniques such as linoleum and woodcut, copper or stone printing. The works were carried out as: "figurative style, reduced to simple forms, enriched by small cubist forms".

The City of Vienna named Oskar-Matulla-Gasse in Wiener Neustadt after the artist.

Honors

  • 1962: Professor
  • 1963: Culture Prize for Fine Arts of the State of Lower Austria
  • 1969: Premio int.Amicizia Europea Santhia Piemont
  • 1969: Gustav Klimt award from the Secession
  • 1970: 1st radio play award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1981: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art

Works (selection)

Oskar Matulla
self-portrait, 1951, oil
Link to the picture
(please note copyrights )

painter

  • Self-portrait , 1920, linocut
  • City by the Sea , 1929, oil
  • Kardatschen in Burgenland , 1939, oil
  • Rannersdorf Castle , 1951, oil
  • Self-portrait , 1951, oil
  • Self-portrait , 1952, lithograph
  • Bretonin, 1954 , oil
  • Etruria, 1957 , casein
  • In Mendling , 1961, oil
  • Trattenbach Landscape , 1961, oil
  • Istanbul , 1970, oil
  • Tuscany , 1972, watercolor

illustrator

  • Ilse Tielsch : Autumn my sail. with colored woodcuts by Oskar Matulla, Tusch-Druck, Vienna 1967
  • There was only summer in Silesia - cheerful and contemplative stories from Silesian narrators. Jochen Hoffbauer (Ed.), Oskar Matulla (Illustr.), Erdmann, Tübingen 1972 DNB 730411648 .

author

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Lower Danube - Man and Landscape: Art exhibition in the exhibition house. Vienna 1, Friedrichstr. 12, former Secession; April 11 to May 3, 1942
  • Oskar Matulla: oil paintings, watercolors, pastels. January 25 - February 19, 1978, State Gallery in Esterházy Palace , Eisenstadt
  • Oskar Matulla on his 80th birthday - painting, graphics, prints, illustrations. City Museum St. Pölten, March 15 - April 17, 1980. Lower Austria Documentation Center for Modern Art
  • Oskar Matulla - painting and graphics. NöArt Galerie, Karlsplatz 5, Vienna, August 11th - September 5th, 1981.
  • Oskar Matulla, painter and graphic artist 1900-1982, October 6th - November 4th 2000, DOK - Lower Austria Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten
  • Correspondence II - The artists of the Danube Forest Group , December 2012 - March 2013, Museum Moderner Kunst , Passau

literature

  • Matulla, Oscar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956.
  • Matulla, Oscar . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , p. 634.
  • Alois Koller: A native artist: Oskar Matulla. In: People's Post. July 22, 1932, p. 4/5 ( digitized at ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online )
  • Alois Vogel : The painter and graphic artist Oskar Matulla. In: Ancient and Modern Art. Issue 84, 11th year, Österreichischer Bundesverlag for teaching, science and art, Vienna and Munich 1966, pp. 41–43 ( digitized version ).
  • The Danube Forest Group (1946–1992). Part 2, In: KUNSTZEITUNG. Kunstverein Deggendorf eV issue 15, 1st half of 2015 (PDF 3.8 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Neustädter Artists' Association
  2. ↑ Biography on Austria Forum
  3. ↑ a b On the occasion of the 100th birthday, the DOK is showing a retrospective of the artist (with several images of his works)
  4. ^ Hainburg in words and pictures. In: Niederösterreichischer Grenzbote , September 30, 1934, p. 4 (digitized by ANNO)
  5. ^ Poster of the exhibition at Bildarchivaustria.at
  6. ↑ Correspondence II - The Danube Forest Group at kulturpur.de
personal data
SURNAME Matulla, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian graphic artist, painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1982
Place of death Vienna