Rudolf Sternad

Lady portrait

Rudolf Sternad (born September 2, 1880 in Reichenberg , † January 21, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian miniature painter and lithographer of Czech descent.

Sternad was trained as a lithographer at the state trade school in Reichenberg and worked in the lithographic institutes in Varnsdorf and Zittau . After a stay in Dresden (1900–1901) he continued his studies at the arts and crafts school in Gablonz with E. Waritzel from 1903 to 1906 .

In the period from 1910 to 1914 he ran a studio for designing posters in Hamburg . During the First World War he was called to military service.

From 1918 Sternad worked as a painter in Vienna . He mainly dealt with portrait miniatures of Viennese celebrities. In addition to the miniature painters Wilhemine Stadler (1898–1954) and Rudolf Ipold (1873–1936), he was one of the masters of Viennese portrait miniature painting.

In total, Sternad created over 800 portrait miniatures. From 1924 he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

Sternad died in a bombing raid on January 21, 1945 and was buried at the Grinzing cemetery .

Since 1985 his grave (together with that of the visual artist Carl Anton Reichel ) has been moved to the grove of honor for cultural workers in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

literature

Günter Harum: Rudolf Sternad, the painter of new Viennese miniatures. 1925.
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian miniature portrait from the beginning to the present. Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85390-006-3 .

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Sternad - collection of images, videos and audio files

Sternad, Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010,ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5, p. 230 f. (Direct links on p. 230 , p. 231 ).
Rudolf Sternad in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

↑ sticky note. In: Kleine Wiener Kriegszeitung , January 28, 1945, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kwk
↑ Searching for the dead | Online Services | Cemeteries | Vienna cemeteries . In: www.friedhoefewien.at . ( friedhoefewien.at [accessed on February 7, 2017]).
↑ The Austrian Biographical Lexicon incorrectly states the date of death as January 5, 1944.

personal data
SURNAME	Sternad, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian miniature painter and lithographer of Czech descent
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1945
Place of death	Vienna

[1] sticky note. In: Kleine Wiener Kriegszeitung , January 28, 1945, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kwk

[2] Searching for the dead | Online Services | Cemeteries | Vienna cemeteries . In: www.friedhoefewien.at . ( friedhoefewien.at [accessed on February 7, 2017]).

[3] The Austrian Biographical Lexicon incorrectly states the date of death as January 5, 1944.