Otto Lendecke
Otto Friedrich Carl Lendecke (born May 4, 1886 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; died October 17, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter, sculptor and illustrator.
Life
Otto Lendecke initially pursued a career as a soldier, but left as an officer in 1909. Lendecke married the painter Katharina von Szabo-Hindi in 1911, and they divorced in 1918. The actor Paul Henreid was a son of his sister Marie Hernried, of whom he modeled a porcelain bust. He made his first public appearance in 1910 as a sculptor with a bust of his fiancée at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris . Also in Paris in 1911 he had contact with the fashion designer Paul Poiret . In the same year Lendecke met Josef Hoffmann , the artistic director of the Wiener Werkstätte , for whom he designed postcards.
Lendecke drew illustrations for the magazines Jugend , Meggendorfer Blätter and Licht und Schatten . The S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin commissioned him to design the book covers for The Greek Dancer by Arthur Schnitzler and Dolores by JV Jensen . He drew more than 70 contributions for the Simplicissimus .
In 1913 he decorated Helena Rubinstein's London beauty salon with oil paintings. When war broke out in 1914, he moved to Budapest and in 1915 to Vienna . Lendecke produced watercolors and linocuts for Viennese fashion in 1914/15, and in 1916 he was accepted into the artistic advisory board of the fashion magazine. In 1917 he headed the newly founded fashion magazine Die Damenwelt .
In February / March 1929 a commemorative exhibition for Lendecke took place in the Austrian Museum in Vienna.
Works
- Wiener Werkstätte: Fashion 1914/5. Edited by Prof. Josef Hoffmann with the participation of teachers and students from the Vienna School of Applied Arts and the artistic staff of the Wiener Werkstaette. Eduard Kosmack, Vienna 1915 [including 5 prints by Otto Lendecke].
- To beauty: an album by Otto Lendecke. Albert Langen, Munich 1924.
literature
- Hans Ankwicz : Lendecke, Otto Friedr. Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 47 .
- Christian Brandstätter : Design of the Wiener Werkstätte 1903–1932. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85498-124-4 .
- Laura Weissmüller: Fashion has to be exclusive and a little unsustainable. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 24, 2016, p. 24 ( sueddeutsche.de ).
Web links
- Works by and about Otto Lendecke in the German Digital Library
- Otto Lendecke , at ÖNB
- Otto Lendecke , at antikbayreuth
Individual evidence
- ^ Articles in Simplicissimus u. a. In: Vol. 22 H. 23, p. 296; H. 26, p. 333; H. 42, p. 533; Vol. 25, H. 41, p. 548.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lendecke, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lendecke, Otto Friedrich Carl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter, sculptor and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1918 |
| Place of death | Vienna |