Roland Strasser

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Roland Strasser (born April 26, 1892 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † 1974 in Santa Monica , California ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Strasser was the son of the sculptor and painter Arthur Strasser , he first studied at the Vienna Academy under Jungwirth; from 1911 to 1915 at the Munich Academy , his teacher there was Angelo Jank . Little is known about his early work. Like his older brother Benjamin Strasser , who also learned painting and graphics, he was able to get a job as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter during the First World War .

After the war he illustrated books for young people and did lithographs for the Society for the Reproduction of Art. From 1919, Roland Strasser went on study trips, e.g. B. to Holland , Siam , Java and New Guinea . From 1922 to 1924 he toured China , Mongolia and Tibet . In the fall of 1924, Strasser settled in London and exhibited successfully that same year. He stayed in India over the winter of 1924, and in the spring of 1925 he crossed the 6,000 meter high Kula Pass in the Himalayas to get back to Tibet. At the end of 1925 he stayed again in Mongolia (Urga, today Ulaanbaatar ), and made trips to the province of Kobdo ( Chowd-Aimag ). There he was suspected of espionage by Russian occupation soldiers and arrested. After his release, Strasser made his way through the Gobi Desert to China, where he was plundered in Beijing by the insurgent soldiers of Changolin and deprived of the entire artistic result of his trip. In August 1927 Strasser finally returned to Vienna, but immediately moved back to London, where he worked until 1952. He then moved to Santa Monica, California, where he died in 1974.

Works (selection)

  • Serbs prisoners of war , oil on canvas, 1914/15, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
  • After the battle , oil on canvas, 209 × 260 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • The Tonal Cross , oil on canvas, 1917, 135 × 138 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Österreichisches Heeresmuseum (Ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 1
  2. ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 184.
  3. ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present (founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker). Volume XXXII, 1938, p. 158 f.
  4. ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal . Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 113
personal data
SURNAME Strasser, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1974
Place of death Santa Monica