Otto Rudolf Schatz

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Sgraffito Fire and Earth (1949) by Otto Rudolf Schatz, Hohenbergstrasse 32, Vienna 12

Otto Rudolf Schatz (born January 18, 1900 in Vienna ; † April 26, 1961 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

Life

The son of a family of civil servants graduated from the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Oskar Strnad and Anton von Kenner . At the age of 22, the artist, who was active on the political left, appeared as a book illustrator for Arthur Roessler , and later also for Josef Luitpold Stern (The uprooted tree, The new city, The return of Prometheus). In the interwar period, Schatz mainly illustrated literature from the Strom publishing house (including Stefan Zweig , Jack London , as well as Upton Sinclair's “Co-op” and Peter Rosegger's “Jacob the Last”).

In 1925 Schatz received the Grand State Prize, from 1928–38 he was a member of the Hagenbund . During the Second World War, Schatz lived in Brno, Prague and was later admitted to a subcamp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp in Gräditz , as he was considered to be " Jewish " because of his marriage . After his return, Schatz was sponsored by the Vienna City Councilor for Culture Viktor Matejka . His first prize for the design of the Vienna Westbahnhof remained unrealized.

Schatz worked mainly as a wood cutter - more than 1500 motifs have survived. Oil paintings and occasionally erotica also appear in stores. After his death, Wilfried Daim appeared as collector and propagator of the artist . Daim also reconstructed the wood prints made between 1926 and 1929 for Ernst Preczang's poem "Voice of Work" and edited the book in 1999 as a facsimile.

The honorary grave of Otto Rudolf Schatz is located at the Neustift cemetery in Vienna.

Monument protection

The image of St. Stephen's Cathedral from the first skyscraper in Vienna was placed under monument protection.

Works

  • Jazz band (private collection), 1927, oil on panel, 50 × 48 cm
  • Ballon Sellers (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 8680), 1929, oil on canvas, 190 × 110 cm
  • Exhibition (Hans Schmid Private Foundation), 1930, oil on canvas, 193 × 170 cm
  • Die Kniende (Wien Museum, inv.no.145018), 1930, oil on hardboard, 120 × 91.8 cm
  • Destroyed quay (Wien Museum, inv.no.72456), 1945, oil on canvas, 141 × 160 cm
  • Portrait of Viktor Matejka (Wien Museum, inv.no.213310), around 1947, oil on canvas, 81 × 65.5 cm
  • View of St. Stephen's Cathedral from the first skyscraper in Vienna (Daim collection), around 1955, oil on canvas, 119 × 149 cm
  • Festival week opening in front of the Vienna City Hall (Vienna, MUSA, inv. No. Alt 1388/0), 1956, oil on canvas, 82 × 105 cm
  • Circus Apollo (Wien Museum, Inv.No. 301556), 1956, oil on canvas, 75.1 × 96 cm

Exhibitions

  • Otto Rudolf Schatz & Carry Hauser. In the age of extremes . Vienna Museum, 2016.

literature

  • Wilfried Daim: Otto Rudolf Schatz, graphic . Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt 1978;
  • Wilfried Daim: Otto Rudolf Schatz, war letters . Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt 1982;
  • Klaus Türk: Pictures of the work: an iconographic anthology , VS-Verlag. Wiesbaden 2003
  • Dietrich Kraft, Matthias Boeckl: Otto Rudolf Schatz. 1900-1961. Published by the Association of Friends and Scientific Research of the Hagenbund, Weitra 2010.
  • Cornelia Cabuk: Otto Rudolf Schatz. Monograph and catalog raisonné . Edited by Stella Rollig and Christian Huemer, Belvedere catalog raisonné Volume 7, Vienna 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Sweetheart, Otto Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1961
Place of death Vienna