Otto Trauner

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Otto Trauner (born August 14, 1887 in Vienna , † December 2, 1918 in Zwettl ; pseudonym: Erichsen ) was an Austrian academic painter, etcher, lithographer and illustrator. He was best known for his landscape etchings.

Life

He was born as one of eight children of the editor-in-chief of the Vienna daily newspaper Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt , Adolf Trauner, and his wife Theresia, née Leutschacher. Trauner graduated from the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and then from the Vienna Academy under William Unger (1907/08) and Ferdinand Schmutzer (1908/10). He was one of their most gifted students. In 1917 he married Hilda Maria Winter and moved to Zwettl in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel. He died there on December 2, 1918 as a result of a stomach and intestinal problem.

Create

Trauner exhibited at the Künstlerhaus Vienna from 1906 until his death . So were z. B. some etchings by the then 23-year-old artist shown at the 36th annual exhibition from March 19, 1910. During his short creative period he devoted himself to painting in watercolor and oil , etching, lithography , drawing and jewelry design . Trauner was also a sought-after book illustrator , especially for children and young people's books, fairy tales and legends. He worked for the publisher Gerlach & Wiedling, which was known for its artistically demanding illustrations and for which z. B. Gustav Klimt and Kolo Moser have also drawn.

Trauner also created numerous ex-libris etchings, for example for his brothers Hermann and Walter Trauner. In the published obituaries it was noted that "because of their technical and atmospheric appeal, his sheets were among the most sympathetic works of the Künstlerhaus". In restless and joyful creativity, he quickly developed into a master of the etching needle recognized by his fellow artisans, whose art papers, probably more than a hundred in number, already gave him a respectable reputation through the delicacy and care of their artistically perfect execution. For years he has regularly sent the exhibitions in the Vienna Künstlerhaus and his excellent work has always received the honorable appreciation it deserves from the public and from professional criticism. In the exhibition taking place in the Künstlerhaus at the time of his death, he exhibited a beautiful sheet entitled “Market in Zwettl”. A collection by Otto Trauner was posthumously exhibited at the "Winter Exhibition 1919" in the Künstlerhaus from December 7, 1919 to February 2, 1920. In 2015, his etching “Market Day in Zwettl” was used as the cover picture for the book “Zwettl - Views from Four Centuries”.

Works

  • Hans Sommert : Fable book for the German youth with pictures by Otto Trauner, in: "Volksschatz". Austria's German youth library. Published by the examination committee for youth publications of the kk district school council, published by Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1913
  • Ferdinand Kürnberger : Novellas, selected and annotated by Emil Hofmann, drawings by Otto Trauner, in: “Volksschatz”. Austria's German youth library. Published by the examination committee for youth publications of the kk district school council, published by Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1913
  • Johann Georg Frimberger : Stories from the Lower Austrian wine country, drawings by Otto Trauner, in: "Volksschatz", Volume 10. Austria's German youth library. Published by the examination committee for youth publications of the kk district school council, published by Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1913
  • Adalbert Stifter : Granite. Edited and text reviewed by Josef Buchowiecki, drawings by Otto Trauner in: “Volksschatz”. Austria's German youth library. Published by the examination committee for youth publications of the kk district school council, published by Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1914
  • Trauner, Otto: Designs for modern jewelry with animal motifs. Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung, Volume 11, 1908, pages 391 and 394. [2] .

Exhibitions

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of death, a retrospective was opened in November 2018 with the help of the Waldviertler Sparkasse in Zwettl , at which previously unknown works were shown to the public.

literature

  • Exhibition catalogs of the Vienna Künstlerhaus
  • Österreichische Volkszeitung v. December 4, 1918 (obituary).
  • Christian Art, 16 (1919/20) supplement, pages 62, 63
  • Fuchs, Heinrich: The Austrian painters born 1881–1900 , Volume 2: M - Z, Page K124, Vienna, SV, 1977, ISBN 3-85390-004-X . On-line
  • Thieme, Ulrich, Becker, Felix, Volmers, Hans: General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present . 33/34. 33. Theodotos - Urlaub, 1999, Leipzig. On-line
  • Müllauer, Norbert: Zwettl - Views from Four Centuries , Edition Muno, 2015, Zwettl, self-published
  • Heller, Friedrich C .: The colorful world: Handbook for artistically illustrated, children's book in Vienna 1890–1938 . Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85033-092-3 , online
  • Blaumoser, Norbert, Blaumoser, Selma, b. Trauner, Fragments of a Short Artist's Life - the academic painter and etcher Otto Trauner on the 100th anniversary of his death, in: Das Waldviertel 67 (2018), pages 497-519.

Web links

Wladimir Aichelburg - 150 years of the Künstlerhaus Vienna 1861–2011 [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Volksblatt of December 5, 1918
  2. ↑ News World Sheet of December 4, 1918
  3. ^ New Wiener Tagblatt dated December 9, 1918
  4. ↑ Ed. Mag. Norbert Müllauer, Edition Muno, Zwettl, self-published
  5. ^ [1] Website of the community of Zwettl
personal data
SURNAME Trauner, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erichsen (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian academic painter, etcher, lithographer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1918
Place of death Zwettl