Richard Diller

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Richard Diller (born March 15, 1890 in Wels , † June 7, 1969 in Linz ) was an Austrian painter and teacher .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Wels, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna until 1917 and originally wanted to become a drawing teacher. After the death of his father in 1912 he decided to pursue a career as a freelance artist. His teachers were Alois Delug , Rudolf Jettmar and Georg Niemann .

After additional exams in descriptive geometry and courses in manual skills, he passed the teaching examination in 1930 and was pragmatic in 1933 . Among other things, he was a member of the Innviertel Artists Guild .

Exhibitions

Works by him were shown in a group exhibition:

  • The order of things. Neue Sachlichkeit in Upper Austria, exhibition of the Landesgalerie Linz, 2005, short biography in the catalog for the exhibition
  • Gallery of the city of Wels, permanent exhibition

literature

  • Arthur Fischer-Colbrie and Otfried Kastner : Richard Diller. For the 60th birthday . Upper Austrian Culture Report 1950, Volume 10, Brucknerland 1950, Linz, Heft 8/9, pp. 30 and 31, Linzer Volksblatt 1950, No. 62, Tagblatt, 1950, No. 63, Welser Zeitung, 1950, No. 11, Der Mühlviertler , 1950, no.11.
  • Otto Jungmair and Otto Wutzel : A lyric poet of Upper Austrian landscape painting. On Professor Richard Diller's 70th birthday , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, 1960, no.62 , Linzer Volksblatt, 1960, no.62 .
  • Max Hilpert : Richard Diller, the painter of the Mühlviertel , Mühlviertler Bote, 1965, No. 10.
  • Otfried Kastner: Richard Diller, life and work , Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, vol. 20 (1966) issue 1/2, pages 71 to 85, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Max Hilpert: In memory of Prof. Richard Diller, the painter of the Mühlviertel , in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter, Vol. 9 (1969), No. 3, pp. 94 and 95.
  • Günter Meissner: General Artist Lexicon (AKL). The visual artists of all times and peoples . KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2000, Volume 27, Page 404, ISBN 3-598-22740-X .

Publications

Diller published some articles in the Mühlviertler Heimatbl Blätter, among others

  • Railway construction - a true story (1965), PDF
  • When I met Dr. Hans Zötl in Eferding drew (1966), PDF

Awards

  • Landscape awards during the First World War
  • Special award from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for his self-portrait (1917)
  • Gau culture prize Upper Danube 1941
  • Silver Medal for Art and Science of the City of Wels (1955)
  • Medal pro arte et scientia in gold from the city of Wels (1965)
  • In Linz the Dillerweg and in Wels the Dillerstraße were named after Richard Diller.
  • In Wels , the numerous pictures bequeathed to the city of Wels (735 oil paintings and drawings, portraits of Wels citizens, landscapes, etc.) by Dillers at the end of the 1960s prompted the city of Wels to set up the gallery of the city of Wels in the former savings bank building.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diller, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 566 .
  2. ↑ Honoring Professor Richard Dillers. City of Wels. Official Journal Vol. 4 (Wels 1965) No. 3, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Award of the gold medal "pro arte et scientia" , in: Welserzeitung 1965 No. 11
  4. ↑ Award of the "pro arte et scientia" medal in gold on the occasion of the 75th birthday, in: Tagblatt 1965 No. 61
  5. ↑ Diller, Richard, Maler, Linz, Wels, in: Gerhard Renner, The bequests in the libraries and lakes of the Republic of Austria, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bählau, 1993 .
  6. ^ Gallery of the city of Wels, in: Web presence of Events.at .
personal data
SURNAME Diller, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish
DATE OF DEATH 7th June 1969
Place of death Linz