Urban Janke
Urban Janke (born February 12, 1887 in Blottendorf , Bohemia ; † 1915 missing on the Eastern Front) was an Austrian graphic artist and designer.
Life
Janke studied from 1903 to 1908 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Bertold Löffler and Rudolf von Larisch . He designed posters and glass objects for Lobmeyr , contributed illustrations to the magazine Erdgeist and created pictures for the Wiener Werkstätte . From 1908 he taught at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts . He was a member of the Austrian Werkbund .
Janke took part in the Kunstschau Wien 1908 , the winter exhibition of the Museum for Art and Industry 1911/12 and the Bugra Leipzig in 1914.
literature
- Maria Auböck, Maria Marchetti: Vienna around 1900: Art and Culture , C. Brandstätter, 1985, ISBN 978-3-85447097-7 , p. 518 (with biography)
- Christian Brandstätter (Ed.): Vienna. 10 postcards. Joseph Diveky, Urban Janke, Franz Kuhn, Karl Schwetz. Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85498-256-9 .
- Urban Janke, Christian Brandstätter (ed.): Schönbrunn: 10 art cards of the Wiener Werkstätte. Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna, 1993, ISBN 3-85447-483-0 .
Web links
Commons : Urban Janke - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Artist index Palais Kinsky, Vienna ( memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 2, 2011
- ↑ Urban Janke: Pierrot's Last Adventure. Vienna 1911. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 2, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janke, Urban |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian graphic artist and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blottendorf, Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1915 |