Ulf Seidl

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Ulf Seidl , actually Rudolf Seidl ( May 28, 1881 in Salzburg - March 3, 1960 there ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist , writer and officer in both world wars.

life and work

Ulf Seidl studied art in Munich and Karlsruhe . From 1907 he lived and worked in Vienna . He developed a neo-Biedermeier style of drawing that was nostalgic , illustrative and pleasing to meet the taste of the times. An example of this is the Salzburg picture folder from 1913, which was supplemented throughout his life. Other folders were dedicated to the Salzkammergut and the Wachau . He made two true-to-scale reconstructions of the cityscape of Salzburg in the 16th century.

Immediately after the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the Rains , stood on the Eastern Front and was badly wounded. As kk Oberleutnant d. R. from.

From 1916 to 1926 he was the owner or co-owner of the Würthle art dealer in Vienna. In 1919 he appointed Lea Bondi as the company's authorized signatory, and in 1920 he expanded the company's field of activity to include publishing in cooperation with Otto Nirenstein . From 1922 his wife, Leopoldine Seidl, was also a partner in the art dealership.

In the 1920s, he developed a photochemical process for reproducing old masterpieces. Around 1930 his studio was in the Hohensalzburg Fortress . From 1932 until his death he lived in Söllheim, a district of Hallwang . He was also active as a writer. In addition to numerous newspaper and magazine articles, he has written short stories, a storybook and a number of historical novels. One of these novels, “Ursula Weichenbergerin und ihr Fahrensmann”, published in 1939 by Frau und Mutter-Verlag , is set in Salzburg and Hallwang during the transition from the 17th to the 18th century and is based on original documents from the time.

During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He served as a captain in the Deputy General Command XVIII set up in Salzburg in 1939 . Army Corps . His drawings corresponded to the National Socialist taste in art and were used for numerous publications during the Nazi era, for example the song book of Ostmark soldiers for which he was responsible as part of his Wehrmacht activity , In the same step and step (1940/41), or Wehrraum Alpenland (1943). The Rainerlied was also printed in the songbook and commented on by Seidl as editor: "The song brings happiness into the quarter, attracts girls and opens the kitchen and cellar."

Works (selection)

  • Hans Nüchtern : The unnameable light. A book of strange devotion . 1921 with book decorations by Ulf Seidl.
  • Ostmark fairy tale . In: Ruf der Heimat, Felizian Rauch, Innsbruck and Leipzig, 1935.
  • The Donauweibchen and other stories - a novel from Salzburg based on old documents. Frau und Mutter publishing house, Vienna and Leipzig, 1936.
  • Ursula Weichenbergerin and her driver. Frau und Mutter publishing house, Vienna and Leipzig, 1939
  • The thousand-tower castle of the world - stories and characters from the battle for the Caucasus . Publishing house “Das Bergland-Buch”, Salzburg, 1943.
  • Bishop Pilgrim and the Torerin. Verlag “Das Bergland-Buch”, Salzburg, 1951.
  • Pumperlebumm . Ignotia publishing house, Vienna, 1957.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murray G. Hall: Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte, 1918-1938 . H. Böhlau, 1985, ISBN 978-3-412-05585-1 , pp. 329 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Schaffer : World War and Artist Feuds Salzburg Art and First World War - a sober balance sheet , Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, p. 549
  3. ^ Roswitha Juffinger: Salzburger Landessammlungen 1939-1955 . State of Salzburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-901443-28-2 , pp. 93 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  4. ^ "Aryanization" using the example of the companies Halm & Goldmann and Verlag Neuer Graphik (Würthle & Sohn Nachf.) , Documentation by Stefania Domanova and Georg Hupfer, p. 14
  5. ^ A b Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938-1945: Handbook of a literary system . Böhlau, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77809-7 , pp. 374 ( google.de [accessed on February 1, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Gerda Koller: Cultural-historical perspectives . Self-rel. of the Inst. f. Austrian Kulturgeschichte, 1971, p. 93 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  7. ↑ a b Thomas Hochradner, Julia Lienbacher: Salzburg's hymns from 1816 to today: Documentation of a conference as part of "Salzburg 20.16" for the main focus of Salzburg's music history at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg . LIT Verlag Münster, 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-50803-4 , p. 100 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Gerda Koller: Cultural-historical perspectives . Self-rel. of the Inst. f. Austrian Kulturgeschichte, 1971, p. 93 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Seidl, Ulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidl, Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist, writer and officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1960
Place of death Salzburg