Paul Ikrath

Paul Ikrath (born June 28, 1888 in Vienna , † March 13, 1970 in Linz ) was an Austrian painter and teacher .

Live and act

Ikrath imparted his knowledge through courses in nude painting , applied arts , painting and graphic techniques. The portraitist himself was represented in exhibitions.

His students include Fritz Aigner , Ernst Balluf , Erich Buchegger , Norbert Drienko , Rudolf Ferch , Maximilian Gebhartl , Helmut Heinrich Franz Hamann , Heinrich Haider , Hans Keplinger , Max Kislinger , Auguste Kronheim , Hans Gösta Nagl , Ernst Reischenböck , Hans Schaumberger , Fritz Störk and Elfriede Trautner .

After attending the Viennese painting schools Streblau and Schefer, he studied from 1906 to 1910 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien under Anton von Kenner and Bertold Löffler and carried out various teaching activities from 1912 to 1953:

• Technical school for woodworking in Hallstatt (from 1912)
• Bundesgewerbeschule Linz (1921) and expansion of Matthias May's painting school into the school's arts and crafts department
• Central Institute for Commercial Women’s Professions, Vienna
• Arts and Crafts Department at the State Engineering School Linz (Head)
• School of German Crafts
• Art department of the Bundesgewerbeschule Linz (head, 1947 to 1953)

He also had a teaching position at the Technical University of Linz in Wilhering Abbey .

Ikrath was one of the founding members of the MAERZ artists ' association when it was reorganized after the Second World War and was also a member of the Innviertel artists' guild .

Works

• Ceramic relief Linz, Dinghoferstraße (1927)
• Schubert memorial plaque at the Winklerbau
• Waxenberg ruins
• Sitting girl (oil on canvas, 1928)
• Hinterstoder
• Death (1918)

Exhibitions

Ikrath's works have been shown several times in solo and group exhibitions or themed exhibitions:

• Paul Ikrath , exhibition in the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz , 1963, with leaflet by Walter Kasten
• Paul Ikrath and his master students , Nordico City Museum , 1984/1985
• The portrait art of Paul Ikrath , Allgemeine Sparkasse Linz , 1988
• Paul Ikrath and his pupil , exhibition in the Museum Nordico of the City of Linz as part of the Kiwanis Art Days 2000
• The order of things. New Objectivity in Upper Austria , Landesgalerie Linz, 2005

Awards

• Austrian State Prize (1926)
• Grand Prix and Gold Medal of the Paris World Exhibition (1937)

literature

• Professor Paul Ikrath 70 years old, academic painter, art teacher. In: Upper Austrian news. No. 147, 1958 and Tagblatt. No. 147, 1958.
• Rudolf Walter Litschel: Guide and destination for thousands. For the 75th birthday of Government Councilor Professor Paul Ikrath. In: Upper Austrian culture report. Episode 17, 1963.
• Peter Kraft: A father figure for many Linz artists. Paul Ikrath as a painter and teacher. In: Upper Austria, Kulturzeitschrift, year 35, issue 3, 1985, pp. 69–75.
• Peter Kraft: The portrait art of Paul Ikrath. A show compiled from rarely shown works at the Allgemeine Sparkasse Linz. In: Linz active. No. 108/1988, Linz cultural, pp. 67–68.
• Gabriele Spindler: Moderately sharp and sober - traces and reception structures of the New Objectivity in Upper Austria. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Society for Regional Studies, No. 147, Part 1, Linz 2002, pp. 345–359 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• Andreas Strohhammer: The order of things. On the iconography of New Objectivity in Upper Austria and an empirical surface report. With biographies and a. by Paul Ikrath, Linz 2005, pp. 138–142.

Web links

• Paul Ikrath, in: Website of the City of Linz
• Paul Ikrath, in: Basis wien web presence, art, information and archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Ikrath and his students, exhibition as part of the Kiwanis Art Days, Linz, 2000