Richard Harlfinger

Slowiki Nova military cemetery , 1918.

Richard Harlfinger (born July 17, 1873 in Milan , † September 12, 1948 in Vienna ) was an Austrian landscape and war painter .

life and work

From 1892 to 1894 Harlfinger was a student at the private painting school Strehblow in Vienna. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysis and Carl von Marr . He initially painted figure pictures such as Walpurgis Morgen and tightrope walkers , but soon turned to landscape painting . His preferred motifs were alpine landscapes . He became a member of the Vienna Secession in 1906 and was its president in 1918 and 1919. From 1917 he worked at the Vienna Women's Academy .

During the First World War , Harlfinger worked as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter . Some of the works created there were assigned to the then Imperial and Royal Army Museum (today: Army History Museum ), in whose collection of paintings the pictures are still to this day.

He was married to the painter Fanny Zakucka .

Exhibitions:

Exhibitions of the Secession, Vienna

1904 Künstlerhaus, Vienna

1910 International Hunting Exhibition, Vienna

1911, 1912, 1913 Secession, Vienna

1988 The Modern Poster, MoMA, New York

2005 Personale, Kunsthandel Hieke, Vienna

Works (excerpt)

The military cemetery in Slowiki Nowa , 1918, oil on canvas, approx. 505 × 40 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
Landscape near Altaussee , 1940, oil on canvas, 84 × 109 cm, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Vienna

literature

Harlfinger Richard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 189.
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century , Vienna 1979, Volume 2, Page K 44.

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1979, Volume 2, Page K 44
↑ Megan Brandow-Faller: HARLFINGER-ZAKUCKA Fanny (1873-1954). Painter, graphic artist and craftsperson. In: biographical database and lexicon of austrian women. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .

Web links

Richard Harlfinger (1873-1948) - painter. In: hieke-art.com. Retrieved November 25, 2019

personal data
SURNAME	Harlfinger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian landscape and war painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milan
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1948
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1979, Volume 2, Page K 44

[2] Megan Brandow-Faller: HARLFINGER-ZAKUCKA Fanny (1873-1954). Painter, graphic artist and craftsperson. In: biographical database and lexicon of austrian women. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .