Oskar Wiedenhofer

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Oskar Wiedenhofer (born December 19, 1889 in Bozen , † September 7, 1987 in Seis am Schlern ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Wiedenhofer studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts and then at the Academy there , his teachers included Franz von Stuck and Franz von Lenbach . Study trips took him to Italy and England . He lived temporarily in Vienna , Linz and various German cities.

During the First World War , Wiedenhofer was classified as unfit for front duty and assigned as a war painter to the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter . At first he mainly worked on portraits of the imperial family , then went to the Tyrolean front and in May 1918 to Dalmatia and Serbia . Towards the end of the war Wiedenhofer was in the army group of Colonel General Svetozar Boroëvić von Bojna on the Piave .

At the “ Great German Art Exhibition ” in Munich in 1942 , Wiedenhofer's idealized image of a farmer in traditional Seiser costume was exhibited.

Works (selection)

  • Field pilot Colonel Hans Ritter Umlauff von Frankwell , 1918, oil on canvas, 67 × 55.5 cm ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
  • Farmer in traditional Seiser costume , around 1942, pastel, Land Tirol
  • Peter Mayr 1809 , 1943, graphic for "Tyrol - Vorarlberg: Nature, Art, People, Life" (Innsbruck 1944)

literature

  • Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flying 90/71" . Exhibition catalog, Volume II: Flying in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971.
  • Ellen Hastaba: Tirols Künstler 1927, in: Schlern-Schriften 319, Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck, 2002, p. 363.
  • Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 158-159, 165, 178-179 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flying 90/71" . Exhibition catalog, Volume II: Flying in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971, p. 46 f.
personal data
SURNAME Wiedenhofer, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1987
Place of death Seis am Schlern