Oswald Roux

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Oswald Roux (born January 31, 1880 in Vienna ; † April 18, 1961 there ) was an Austrian animal and landscape painter , etcher and lithographer .

Life

Roux studied at the Vienna Academy from 1902 to 1906 , his teachers were Alois Delug and Franz Rumpler . From 1907 to 1939 Roux was a member of the Vienna Secession , from 1938 a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna.

Relatively soon after the outbreak of the First World War , on August 27, 1914, Roux was accepted as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter . Subsequently he worked on the Russian theater of war in Bukovina and Galicia , and later on the Italian front in Carinthia and South Tyrol . In the spring of 1917 Roux volunteered for the artillery (Feldhaubitz Regiment No. 13), but was transferred back to the KPQ in the same year, where he appears in the registry lists until November 1918. Roux designed posters for war painting exhibitions, of which he was a juror.

Works (selection)

  • Field cannon on the march in the Gailtal , 1915/16, oil on canvas, 91 × 160 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
  • Motif from Plöckenstrasse , 1915, oil on wood, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

  • Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 184.
  2. ↑ Österreichisches Heeresmuseum (Ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 18
  3. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914-1918 . Vienna, 1981, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Roux, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1961
Place of death Vienna