Siegfried Weyr

Siegfried Weyr (born April 24, 1890 in Groß-Mosty , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died March 21, 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and journalist.

Life

Siegfried Weyr, the son of a civil officer in the army of the Danube Monarchy , was born in the father's garrison town. He was the nephew of the sculptor Rudolf Weyr (1847–1914). His father Eduard died when Siegfried was not yet a year old, in 1896 the widow moved to Vienna, Siegfried grew up in close contact with his uncle, passed the Matura , but also did additional artistic training. For a year and a half, he attended the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts before and after the First World War .

From 1914 Weyr worked as an editor for the Wiener Mittagszeitung. During the First World War, Weyr was stationed as a training officer in Krakow after being wounded , where he also studied art history. After the end of the war, Weyr emerged as an author and illustrator, he socialized with his wife Helene Weyr , née Merdinger, in intellectual circles and approached the political left. From 1927 Weyr worked as a journalist for the socialist Vorwärts-Verlag , initially for Das Kleine Blatt . He then designed the picture newspaper Der Kuckuck together with Julius Braunthal .

After the annexation of Austria he emigrated in 1938 with his wife and son Thomas and lived in England and the United States until 1947 . After his return he was editor of the newspapers Kurier and Neues Österreich and was best known for his atmospheric and well-researched local history feature pages, which were repeatedly reissued in various collections even after Weyr's death.

Works (selection)

• Shadow conjuring. Stories of old Austria . Vienna 1920.
• Fallada. The god of the blue horses (with 8 woodcuts by the author). Vienna 1925.
• The old right of chaste virgins . Vienna 1951.
• The second of August. Novel . Vienna 1953.
• Vienna magic of the inner city . Vienna 1968.
• Vienna. Magic of the suburbs . Vienna 1969.
• The treasures of Vienna . Vienna 1970.

literature

• Stefan Riesenfellner, Josef Seiter (ed.): The cuckoo. The modern illustrated illustrated book of Red Vienna . With a contribution by Murray G. Hall. Studies on social and cultural history, volume 5, publication by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for social and cultural history, Vienna 1995
• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1242
• Thomas Weyr: The distant city. Memories . Innsbruck: Limbus, 2015 ISBN 978-3-99039-040-5

Web links

• Entry on Siegfried Weyr in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )