Robert Zinner

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Robert Zinner (born February 26, 1904 in Vienna , † January 22, 1988 in Munich , buried in Mondsee ) was an Austrian mountain and landscape painter , graphic artist and alpinist .

Life

Robert Zinner was born in Vienna in 1904 as the son of a civil servant . Zinner's talent for painting was recognized by Professor Siegfried Stoitzner in his youth . In December 1920, Zinner visited Gustav Jahn's estate exhibition in the Künstlerhaus in Vienna . This show was formative for the further path of the growing young painter, who from then on had the desire to also become a mountain painter.

Due to the early death of his father and the difficult living conditions around the First World War , Zinner was unable to realize his wish to attend the art academy. He was forced to learn a commercial profession. His work as a commercial employee led him to Romania and Italy. After three years as an employee, Zinner managed to get by as a graphic artist and painter. He created illustrations for alpine magazines and books and drew alpine climbing routes. Zinner's main ambition, however, was to be realized in painting .

Robert Zinner was self-taught . Dachstein-Südwand is his first large, alpine painting. He mainly painted his paintings outdoors on site. On average, the images were finished in 2–4 hours. Zinner's preferred painting locations included a. South Tyrol , the Wachau , the Ramsau and the Styrian Salzkammergut .

In 1936 Zinner received the order for a poster for the newly built motorways in Germany. The poster with its futuristic design will be published in German and English for the 1936 Olympic Games.

Zinner lived in Ramsau from 1944 to 1946. In 1947, Zinner and the art historian Josef Weingartner were commissioned to write a book about South Tyrol. Robert Zinner temporarily moved to Bolzano to work on the book . During this time he kept a studio in the garden of the Hotel Greif. In addition to hundreds of illustrations, large oil paintings of the South Tyrolean Dolomites were also created . The book was published in 1950 under the title "South Tyrol: Landscape, Art, Culture" .

In the following years Zinner u. a. in the Wachau, in southern Germany and in the Ramsau. Numerous oil paintings and watercolors are created. a. from the Dachstein Mountains . In 1955 the book from Lake Garda was published , written with the art historian Franz Hieronymous Riedl , 1956 Meran and the Burgraviato , written with Josef Weingartner, 1957 The Wachau: romantic Danube country , 1965 romanticism in Austria and 1969 between Rothenburg and Lake Garda .

Zinner lived in Mondsee from the end of the 1960s. Robert Zinner painted numerous paintings until his death on January 22, 1988. In 1986 his last book Picturesque, Romantic South Tyrol was published .

Works by Robert Zinner are now in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine associations in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1934: Complete exhibition in Milan, shown a. a .: Föhn , Last Sun , The Ascent , Monte Soura , It thaws , Sella , Geisler Group , Höhenblick , Laserz , Langkofel .
  • 1936: Collective exhibitions in Innsbruck, Chemnitz, Dresden and Hanover.
  • 1956: Exhibition in Meran, shown among others: Sella , Langkofel , Drei Zinnen .
  • 2003: I colori del Pelmo. Il trono di dio nell 'iconografia e nell' arte , exhibition in San Vito di Cadore.
  • 2004: Robert Zinner 1904–1988 , exhibition in Ramsau.

literature

  • Zinner, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 210 .
  • Josef Tritscher: Opening speech for the exhibition Robert Zinner 1904–1988 , Ramsau 2004
  • Josef Tritscher: Press release on the Robert Zinner exhibition 1904–1988 , Ramsau 2004
  • Margarete Zinner: Opening presentation for the exhibition Robert Zinner 1904–1988 , Ramsau 2004
  • Robert Zinner: My career as a painter: a self-portrayal. In: Südtirol in Wort und Bild, 1986, 30th year, issue 3, pp. 22-25
  • Josef Soyka: The Alps, their painters and Robert Zinner. In: The faithful Eckart . 1934, 11th vol., Vol. 2, H. 7, pp. 559-564
  • The mountain painter Robert Zinner. In: Deutsche Alpenzeitung. Munich 1935, pp. 161-164
  • Ernst Hanausek: The mountain painter Robert Zinner. In: Messages from the German and Austrian Alpine Club. 1936, vol. 62, no. 5, p. 124 ( digitized version )
  • From Vienna , illustration in: Jugend: Münchner Illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben , 1936, vol. 41, no. 1, p. 796 (digitized version)
  • From Bozen , illustration in: Jugend: Münchner Illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben , 1936, vol. 41, no. 1, p. 797 (digitized version)
  • Motif from the Stiftshof in Dürnstein (Wachau) , title page to: Jugend: Münchner Illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben , 1937, vol. 42, H. 15, title page (digitized version)
  • Tamed water by Rudolf Werner with color pictures by Robert Zinner. In: The faithful Eckart. 1939/40, vol. 17, pp. 192-193
  • Josef Weingartner / Robert Zinner: South Tyrol: Landscape, Art, Culture . Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen 1950
  • Franz Hieronymous Riedl / Robert Zinner: The book from Lake Garda . Vienna 1955
  • Josef Weingartner / Robert Zinner: Meran and the Burgrave Office . Vienna 1956
  • Robert Zinner: The Wachau: romantic Danube country . Vienna 1957
  • Robert Zinner: Romance in Austria . Vienna 1965
  • Robert Zinner: Between Rothenburg and Lake Garda: a romantic painter's trip. Vienna 1969
  • Robert Zinner: Picturesque, romantic South Tyrol . Vienna 1986

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Gustav Jahn family , accessed on December 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Robert Zinner: Illustration for the poster Speeding along German Reichsautobahn , 1936 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Thomas Zeller: The Landscape's Crown: Landscape, Perceptions, and Modernizing Effects of the German Autobahn System, 1934 to 1941. In: Technologies of Landscape: from reaping to recycling, ed. David E. Nye . University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1999, pp. 220–221 ( digitized version , accessed December 12, 2013)
  4. ↑ Book reviews. In: The American Alpine Journal, 1954, Vol. 9, p. 163 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Footnote on Ernst Hanausek: The mountain painter Robert Zinner. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Österreichischer Alpenverein, 1936, vol. 62, no. 5, p. 124 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Der Standpunkt, October 12, 1956, p. 6 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper . 1956, No. 239, p. 2
  8. ^ Bepi Pellegrinon: I colori del Pelmo: il trono di dio nell 'iconografia e nell' arte . Belluno, Nuovi Sentieri Editore 2003
  9. ^ Community news Ramsau am Dachstein, 2004, no. 3, p. 21 ( digitized version ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 12, 2013)

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personal data
SURNAME Zinner, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountain and landscape painter, graphic artist and alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1988
Place of death Munich