Paul Meissner (painter)

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Paul Meissner (born May 31, 1907 ; † June 2, 1983 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and former president of the Vienna Secession . One of his best known works is the painting The Wonder Team .

Life

Paul Meissner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1925 . There he completed the general school and the master school under Ferdinand Andri . In 1934 he continued his education in Rome . Between 1954 and 1975 he was President of the Vienna Secession for five periods . In 1977 he was made an honorary member. Prof. Paul Meissner has received several awards and prizes for his work, including the Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts 1950 (advancement award for painting) and the Golden Decoration of Honor for services to the State of Vienna .

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Meissner is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in the honor grave group (40 grave number 154).

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Wall mosaic fairytale train (1957), kindergarten in the Theodor Körner-Hof

Paul Meissner dealt with the questions of meaning in life. This discussion can be seen, for example, in the Hiroshima triptych, but also in the numerous so-called Golgotha pictures . For him, painting was an “exercise with an uncertain outcome”. This means that he was not interested in the finished work, but in the process of painting itself. For him, the painted canvas was just a relic. At the beginning of his work he painted figuratively, later he only painted abstract pictures. Meissner said in 1969: "I belong to the generation that began to paint abstractly because they saw the human grimace unveiled and no longer wanted to depict it." One of his best-known commissioned works is Das Wunderteam (1948), the one from 1931 Portrait of the successful Austrian national soccer team as they entered the stadium in England until 1933 .

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  1. ↑ a b Paul Meissner. Edition Tusch, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85063-113-3 .

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SURNAME Meissner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, President of the Vienna Secession
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1907
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd 1983
Place of death Vienna