Oskar Stössel

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Oskar Stössel (* 1879 in Neunkirchen in Lower Austria , † 1964 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Oskar Stössel grew up in Graz, where he also trained as a civil engineer at the Technical University . He then studied painting in Graz with Constantin Damianos , Leo Diet and Alfred Schrötter von Kristelli . During this time he was also active in the Jewish-Academic Association Charitas . From 1919 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , where he was trained in the technique of etching by Ferdinand Schmutzer . Through his brother Ludwig Stössel , who was a well-known Austrian actor in the interwar period, he made the acquaintance of personalities from the fields of art and science and aristocrats. This also gave him numerous commissions and he was able to gain artistic recognition with his portrait etchings. His color etchings, mainly landscapes, became internationally known, for example he exhibited in London, among others. In 1938 he had to flee Austria to the USA before the National Socialist regime. In exile he was a founding member of the “ Austrian Action ” in New York , which took part as an Austrian organization in the fight against Hitler Germany. He was able to continue his artistic career successfully and he continued to portray personalities from politics and society including President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In the 1950s he returned to Austria, where he died in Vienna in 1964.

meaning

Oskar Stössel is one of those Austrian artists whose artistic work was described by the National Socialists as " degenerate ". In the post-war period, his work was not noticed in Austria, although, for example, a separate exhibition was dedicated to him in New York in 1959. It was not until a special exhibition of the Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum in 2001, which dealt with the resistance, persecution and exile of Styrian artists between 1933 and 1945, that Stössel also got more attention and his work as a portraitist was most recently in 2008/09 honored in a solo exhibition at the Neue Galerie in Graz.

Exhibitions

  • 2001 Modernism in a dark time . Resistance, persecution and exile of Styrian artists 1933-1948. New Gallery Graz. (Group exhibition)
  • 2008 Oskar Stössel. (1879-1964) . Neue Galerie Graz, Hofgalerie.

literature

  • Günter Eisenhut, Peter Weibel (ed.): Modernity in dark time. Resistance, persecution and exile of Styrian artists 1933 - 1945. Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, March 24th - June 30th 2001, Graz 2001.
  • Oskar Stössel (1879-1964). Society portraitist. Edited by Peter Peer, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, exhibition from November 20, 2008 - March 15, 2009, Graz 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Seewann : The Jewish-Academic Association Charitas. Graz 1879 - 1938. A contribution to the history of Zionism on Graz academic soil. With a personal part by Theo Weichmann. Graz 1986/87
  2. ↑ Günter Eisenhut / Peter Weibel (eds.): Modernism in dark time. Resistance, persecution and exile of Styrian artists 1933 - 1945; Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, March 24th - June 30th 2001 Graz 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Stössel, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death Vienna