Othmar Ruzicka
Othmar Ruzicka (born November 7, 1877 in Vienna ; † November 4, 1962 there ) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter .
life and work
Ruzicka graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , his teachers were Julius Victor Berger , August Eisenmenger and Kasimir Pochwalski . In his works he preferred motifs from South Moravia , Slovakia and Lower Austria . During the First World War he was assigned to the Austro-Hungarian war press headquarters as a war painter , where he worked on the Balkan front in Albania .
From 1907 he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus , where a collective exhibition of his works took place in 1956. Ruzicka has received several awards in the course of his artistic career. In 1913 he received the Small Golden State Medal for his oil painting Slovak Peasants ; 1914 the Drasche Prize for the oil painting Das Geständnis and in 1947 the Golden Laurel of the Vienna Künstlerhaus; in addition, he was awarded the title of professor in 1949 .
Works (excerpt)
- Portrait of Federal Chancellor Rudolf Ramek , oil on canvas, approx. 80 × 60 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
literature
- Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century . Vienna 1973, Volume 3, p. K 133; and supplementary volume 2, Vienna 1979, p. K 91.
- Hellmut Bornemann: Prof. Othmar Ruzicka, life pictures of a South Moravian artist. Publishing house of the South Moravian Landscape Council in Geislingen / Steige, 2008, ISBN 3-927498-34-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century, Vienna 1973, Volume 3, p. K 133; and supplementary volume 2, Vienna 1979, p. K 91
Web links
- Literature by and about Othmar Ruzicka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Detailed biography on lawitschka.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruzicka, Othmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1962 |
| Place of death | Vienna |