Oswald Pickel

Oswald Peter Pickel (born March 28, 1896 in Trieste , † June 21, 1980 in Schrobenhausen ) was an Austrian-German-Italian painter .

Life

Pickel was the second of eight children of the businessman Peter M. Pickel (1859-1939) and his wife Maria, née Turner (1870-1950). He went through after visiting the kuk -Gymnasiums (1906/14) in 1915 in Trieste military training in Trieste Regiment 97 and had veterans at the Isonzo battles I-III and on the Russian front , most recently as several times a decorated lieutenant of the Austro-Hungarian army.

Born in Trieste, he automatically became an Italian citizen after the war. In 1920/24 he studied philosophy and art studies at the University of Vienna and at the same time trained as a painter at the Vienna Art Academy . From 1924 to 1939 he worked as a freelance artist in Trieste until he was drafted into the Italian army against his will in 1940. In 1941/42 he worked as an employee in Berlin. From 1943 to 1945 he was drafted into the German armed forces as an ethnic German and was deployed mainly in Italy, most recently as captain and company commander in Noceto .

After the American captivity in Pisa , he lived in Trebesing from 1946 to 1965 and in Schrobenhausen from 1965 to 1980 as a freelance artist, where he died and was buried in 1980. In the creative periods of 1924/39, 1946/65 and 1965/80 in particular, a large number of naturalistic portraits, landscapes and still lifes (and genre pictures) were created. Paintings and drawings can be found today. a. in the graphic collection of the Albertina , in the Museo Revoltella in Trieste, in the Carinthian State Gallery , in the Art Association of the City of Schrobenhausen and in the Saarland Museum . Most of his works are privately owned in Carinthia, Trieste, Bavaria, Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Argentina and the USA.

literature

• Gregorat Susanne (ed.), Autoritratti triestini. La Donazione Hausbrandt. Catalogo Museo Revoltella, Trieste 2011.