Walter Dell

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Walter Dell (born January 19, 1899 in Vienna ; † July 9, 1980 ibid) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Walter Dell served in the war and was imprisoned in Italy from 1917 to 1919. From 1920 he studied restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Rudolf Jettmar and Serafin Maurer. From 1926 he was a decorative painter at Schloss Philippshof in the CSR. In 1927 he took a restoration course. 1937–1942 he was a theater painter at the Burgtheater and at the Vienna State Opera . After that he worked as a set designer in Eger and Franzensbad, Karlsbad and Dresden until 1944. From 1945 to 1947 he worked as a set designer in Vienna. From 1947 to 1966 he worked as a freelance theater painter for stage and film, among others at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He went on study trips to Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Switzerland and Scandinavia. From 1966 until his death in 1980 he devoted himself to freelance artistic work.

plant

Dell created style-pluralistic murals, oil paintings, portraits and drawings. The oeuvre is characterized by impressionistically inspired depictions of his homeland. Many works deal with Vienna and the surrounding area. There are numerous horse motifs in his work. He preferred the watercolor technique and for portraits the oil mixing technique. On his Mediterranean travels, he mainly made pictures and sketches. Work example: View from Leopoldsberg to the Danube , 1926 (auction date: March 29, 1990).

Exhibitions

  • 1988 Theda Dell ter Hell & Walter Dell: Linocuts, watercolors in the Studio Galerie Wolf Vienna.

family

He was a nephew of Josef Dell . In 1939 Walter Dell married Theda ter Hell, who came from a Berlin artist family.

literature

  • H. Fuchs: The Austrian painters born 1881–1900 , I-II, Vienna 1976–1977.
  • R. Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon from the beginnings to the present , Lfg IV, Vienna 1974–1979 (published as Vol. I 1980).
  • D. Trier: Dell, Walter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 25, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22765-5 , p. 481 f.
  • Walter Dell: Triumphant advance of the operetta in: European theater exhibition p. 345, Volume 11 of European theater exhibition, Vienna, Künstlerhaus, September 20 - December 5, 1955, Künstlerhaus Wien, publisher: Künstlerhaus Wien, Franz Hadamowsky, Heinz Kindermann, Verlag W. Frick, 1955.
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch: Theater history year and address book, Volume 54: Deutscher Bühnenverein, u. a., Verlag FAGünther & Sohn AG, 1943.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b D. Trier, General Artists Dictionary, Vol. 25 (2000), p. 481.
  2. ^ Set design by Walter Dell in: Jahrbuch 1953 Gesellschaft für Wiener Theaterforschung 1954 (accessed December 19, 2009)
  3. ^ Artnet Price Database , Art Archives: Auction of March 29, 1990
  4. ^ Exhibition Studio Galerie wolf Vienna (accessed December 19, 2009)
  5. ↑ European Theater Exhibition (accessed December 19, 2009)
  6. ^ German Stage Yearbook (accessed December 19, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Dell, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1980
Place of death Vienna