Robert Obsieger
Robert Obsieger (born September 23, 1884 in Lundenburg , South Moravia , † November 27, 1958 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor and ceramist.
Obsieger taught at the “Workshop School for Ceramics” and was mainly involved in the “ Kunst am Bau” campaign in the context of residential complexes. For the “Dr. Friedrich-Becke-Hof ”, Vienna 16, Thalheimergasse 32–38 (1926), Obsieger designed, for example, bizarre expressionist ceramic panels and animal sculptures. Obsieger's reliefs on the urban residential complex Gerl-Hof (Vienna-Brigittenau, 1931) can be seen as an exemplary attempt to implement the programmatic content of the labor movement . They thematize - based on the residential cantata by Josef Luitpold Stern - work, joy, play and leisure, but stylistically based on models from classical antiquity and the ancient Orient. Obsieger received the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts in 1952 (category: applied arts).
He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .
literature
- Winner, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 553 .
- Robert Obsieger . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 503 .
- Robert Obsieger . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 313 .
Web links
- To Obsieger's reliefs at Gerl-Hof ( Memento from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Obsieger grave site , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 4, Row 16, No. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winner, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor and ceramist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lundenburg , South Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1958 |
| Place of death | Vienna |