Stefan Pichler (painter)

Stefan Pichler ( killed in Courland in 1944 ), occasionally also Stephan Pichler , was an Austrian painter who deserted from the Wehrmacht during the Nazi regime .

Life

Little is known about Stefan Pichler. He came from Carinthia , was a student of Herbert Boeckl and was described as extraordinarily gifted.

At least one of his drawings was in the collection of the industrialist Otto Brill . It is now in the Albertina Graphic Collection in Vienna.

He was drafted into military service, refused to return to the front as a pacifist in 1944 and was arrested. He was in Lienz before court asked and should be sentenced to death. His teacher Boeckl came to the hearing and intervened for him. Culture reporter Trude Polley is also said to have stood up for him. Instead of a death sentence , he was given parole . He fell that same year.

swell

• "Entanglements were consistently hidden" , interview with the historian Michael Koschat
• Helmut Rumpler, Ulfried Burz (ed.): Carinthia: from the German border to the Austrian federal state. Böhlau Verlag Vienna 1998, p. 613
• Art of oblivion. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Freihausgasse Gallery, Villach, June 26 to August 22, 2015, ed. by Werner Koroschitz, Uli Vonbank-Schedler, Association of Industrial Culture and Everyday History