Walter Schwarzl

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Walter Schwarzl (born July 23, 1911 in Dzieditz ; † December 18, 2001 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian artist and art teacher.

Life

Walter Schwarzl was born as the son of Josef Schwarzl and his wife Hildegard, geb. Scholz, was born in the station building of the Czechowitz municipality in what was then Austrian Silesia . After attending the elementary school of the German School Association in Dzieditz , he completed four classes at the secondary school in Bielitz . When Eastern Silesia came to Poland after the end of the First World War and Austrian citizens were asked to pay ten times more school fees , the family's three sons were sent to study in Vienna . Schwarzl first attended the HTL for civil engineering in Mödling , where he acquired his journeyman's certificate as a bricklayer after three years through summer internship . After discovering his talent for drawing, he switched to the graphic teaching and research institute , where he graduated from the department for commercial graphics and chemistry graphics. He later continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts . The conscription to the military interrupted his studies, which he completed during a leave from the front in 1941.

In December 1940 he married Augusta David, professor of mathematics, physics and physical exercise. He did his military service in France and Norway and was taken prisoner by the French in 1944 . Returning to Vienna in 1946, he initially worked as a freelance artist, but later passed the teaching examination for drawing and handicraft. He began teaching as an art teacher at a girls' secondary school in Wiener Neustadt , and then at the secondary school Vienna XII. to teach.

Since his retirement in 1972, Schwarzl worked as an artist and curator at the Moravian-Silesian Museum in Klosterneuburg . For this he and his wife received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Province of Lower Austria from Governor Siegfried Ludwig in 1991 .

Schwarzl's 80th birthday was the occasion for an anniversary exhibition in the Moravian-Silesian Museum of Local History in Klosterneuburg, in which a small selection of his life's work was shown, including etchings , copper engravings , 61 paintings, drawings and, above all, watercolors .

Schwarzl died on December 18, 2001 at the age of 91 in Marienheim in Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Moravian-Silesian Museum of Local History in Vienna has now been confirmed as a cultural asset. sudetenpost, March 20, 1980, p. 2 , accessed on September 27, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Moravian-Silesian Museum of Local History. sudetenpost, March 5, 1992, p. 3 , accessed September 27, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzl, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dzieditz
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2001
Place of death Klosterneuburg