Rudolf Pühringer

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Rudolf Pühringer

Rudolf Pühringer (born March 14, 1891 in Amstetten , † December 6, 1969 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art historian , painter and director of the Army History Museum .

Life

Born in Amstetten as the son of the office director Johann Pühringer, Rudolf Pühringer attended the grammar school in Wels from 1891 . Then he graduated from the artillery cadet school in Traiskirchen (1904-1908) and was appointed ensign on August 18, 1912 . After Brixen for Upper Austria and Salzburg 's imperial fortress artillery battalion. 1 added he was on May 1, 1914 Lieutenant promoted and took this ranking in the battles of the First World War, in part, most recently as First Lieutenant . After the end of the war he was accepted into the Austrian Armed Forces . He resigned as captain .

On November 30, 1920 he got a position as a curator in the Austrian Army Museum (today: Army History Museum) and subsequently took over the management of the museum's art collection. From 1922 he studied art history at the University of Vienna , parallel to this he trained as a visiting student at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Vienna School of Applied Arts as a painter. Between 1919 and 1923 he took part in collective exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus , including the anniversary exhibition in 1921. He also completed the 34th course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , with Alfons Lhotsky and Heimito von Doderer being his classmates. In 1927 he received his doctorate in philosophy .

After the annexation of Austria , Pühringer was accepted into the Wehrmacht as an officer with the rank of captain and on December 1, 1938, he was transferred to the office of the chief of the army museums in Berlin . With the beginning of the Second World War he was transferred to the artillery , where he was used as commander of several artillery units of the Wehrmacht, including in the central section of the Eastern Front. On April 1, 1941, he was promoted to colonel . Due to a serious wound, he was unfit for the front and was therefore transferred back to the head of the Army Museums in Berlin, where he was promoted to major general in the last weeks of the war .

After the end of the war, Pühringer returned to painting. His works were presented to the public in 1949 as part of the Upper Austrian State Exhibition entitled Earth in the Cosmos . At this time Pühringer was able to establish himself as a recognized and versatile painter, whose portraits and landscapes were repeatedly exhibited in the Vienna Künstlerhaus in the post-war period . He primarily painted Austrian and Italian landscapes, usually with topographical accuracy, whereby the mood in his motifs is reminiscent of that of Caspar David Friedrich . Pühringer was particularly fond of monumental design; his paintings are mostly large-format.

From 1950 to 1956 Rudolf Pühringer was director of the Vienna Army History Museum in the Arsenal . During this time he directed and organized the reconstruction of the museum, which was badly damaged during the Second World War, so that it could be reopened on June 24, 1955 under his directorship.

In the fall of 1955 Pühringer retired and turned again to painting before he died of a heart attack in Vienna on December 6, 1969 . He was buried in the local cemetery in Grieskirchen in Upper Austria . After his death, his works were honored in several exhibitions, the most outstanding of which was the personal exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Gallery in 1995 . His works are now in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery , the Upper and Lower Austrian Provincial Museums and the Adalbert Stifter Society in Linz .

He was married to the art historian Leonore Pühringer-Zwanowetz (1917–1986) and a brother-in-law of the economic historian Georg Zwanowetz .

Works (selection)

  • Der Berg , 1949, tempera , 130 × 180 cm
  • The forest , 1945, oil on fibreboard, 162 × 120 cm
  • The great landscape , 1947, oil on fibreboard, 109 × 160 cm
  • Danube loop , 1959, oil on chipboard, 164 × 110 cm
  • Harvest , 1945, oil on pressboard, 94 × 74 cm
  • City in the Albanian Mountains , 1958, oil on pressboard, 165 × 130 cm
  • Forum Romanum I , 1956, oil on pressboard, 195 × 150 cm
  • Parish Church Cavalese , 1967, oil on chipboard, 142 × 85 cm

Fonts (selection)

  • Monuments of early and high Romanesque architecture. In: Memoranda of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Volume 70, Vienna 1931.
  • The Romanesque cathedral of Salzburg. In: Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of Salzburg Cathedral. Salzburg 1928.

Awards (as of 1933)

literature

  • Earth in the cosmos. Paintings and drawings by Rudolf Pühringer , exhibition by the State Museum and the Upper Austrian National Education Center. Catalog No. 3, Linz 1949.
  • Wilhelm Jenny : The painter Rudolf Pühringer. On the opening of his exhibition Earth in the Cosmos in the State Museum from March 19 to April 18, 1949 , in: Upper Austrian Culture Report, 1949, Volume 10.
  • Ernst Huber: In memoriam Rudolf Pühringer , in: Oberösterreichischer Kulturbericht, Vol. 23, 1969, F. 31.
  • Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : Obituary Rudolf Pühringer , in: Die Presse , December 10, 1969.
  • Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck: Rudolf Pühringer , in: Mitteilungsblatt der Museen Österreichs , Vol. 19, Vienna 1970, Issue 1/2, pp. 25-29.
  • Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck: Rudolf Pühringer , in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 79 (1971), pp. 293-294.
  • Painter discoveries - Rudolf Pühringer, Lulu von Thürheim , catalog for the exhibition of the Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz 1995, catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum, new version , No. 89, vol. 2.
  • Kurt Peball , Peter Broucek : Pühringer, Rudolf . In: Ders .: History of Austrian Military Historiography , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-412-05700-2 , pp. 554-555.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. In 6 volumes . Volume 4: Le-Ro . K & S, Vienna a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-218-00748-8 , p. 614.
  • Pühringer, Rudolf . In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 330.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Pühringer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfried Rauchsteiner : Phoenix from the ashes. Destruction and reconstruction of the Army History Museum from 1944 to 1955 . Accompanying volume of the special exhibition of the Army History Museum June 21 to October 20, 2005, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85028-411-5 , p. 86
  2. ↑ Rudolf Pühringer's biography ( memento from April 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on March 18, 2013.
  3. ^ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck: Rudolf Pühringer , in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 79 (1971), pp. 293-294.
  4. ^ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck: Rudolf Pühringer , in: Mitteilungsblatt der Museen Österreichs , Vol. 19, Vienna 1970, Issue 1/2, pp. 25-29
  5. ^ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck: Rudolf Pühringer , in: Mitteilungsblatt der Museen Österreichs , Vol. 19, Vienna 1970, Issue 1/2, pp. 25-29. Wolf Keilig: Das Deutsche Heer, 1933-45 , Volume 3, Generale des Heeres, Friedberg 1983, p. 258, cited above. at: Manfried Rauchsteiner : Phoenix from the ashes. Destruction and reconstruction of the Army History Museum from 1944 to 1955 . Accompanying volume of the special exhibition of the Army History Museum June 21 to October 20, 2005, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85028-411-5 , p. 86.
  6. ↑ a b c on kunstnet.at ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 18, 2013
  7. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Manuscript History of Reconstruction , 2005, quoted in. in: Manfried Rauchsteiner: Phoenix from the ashes. Destruction and reconstruction of the Army History Museum from 1944 to 1955 . Accompanying volume of the special exhibition of the Army History Museum June 21 to October 20, 2005, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85028-411-5 , p. 86
  8. ↑ Manfried Rauchsteiner: Phoenix from the ashes. Destruction and reconstruction of the Army History Museum from 1944 to 1955 . Accompanying volume of the special exhibition of the Army History Museum June 21 to October 20, 2005, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85028-411-5 , p. 110
  9. ^ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck: Rudolf Pühringer , in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 79 (1971), pp. 293-294
  10. ↑ on kunstnet.at ( memento of April 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on March 18, 2013
  11. ↑ image ( memento from April 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on rudolf-puehringer.com], accessed on March 18, 2013
  12. ↑ on worldcat.org , accessed March 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Pühringer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Amstetten
DATE OF DEATH 6th December 1969
Place of death Vienna