Walter Ziegler (artist)

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Walter Ziegler (born March 23, 1859 in Debrník (Deffernik) with Mark Eisenstein ; † June 17, 1932 in Ach at Wanghausen Castle ) was a Bohemian - German and Austrian painter and graphic artist ( etcher , engraver , illustrator ) and non-fiction author .

Training and work

Walter Ziegler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with William Unger and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Johann Leonhard Raab .

In Vienna he was a member of the Association of German Art Academics Athenaia. With the Zieglergraphik a process for the production of multi-colored artistic etchings was developed by him. In 1890 he was accepted into the Künstlerhaus Wien , shortly before he moved to Munich, where in 1891 he was one of the first board members in the Association for Original Etching .

From 1893 he often stayed at Wanghausen Castle in Ach an der Salzach, which belonged to his father Paul and after his death belonged to him. At his invitation, the castle became a meeting place and sometimes also a place of residence for several contemporary artists (including Maximilian Liebenwein from 1897 , later Paul Klee ). Around 1900, artists such as Paul Horst-Schulze (1876–1937) and Ignatius Taschner lived in nearby Burghausen , with whom he founded the School of Graphic and Decorative Art in Munich in 1900. In 1910 he was a member of the board of the German Art Association . In 1923 he was a founding member of the Innviertel artists' guild .

His work on manual printing techniques, which has appeared in several editions, is considered a standard work. In 1906 he was listed as a representative of German-Bohemian art. His works also include landscapes in particular.

Works (selection)

Walter Ziegler: During the hay harvest
  • Praying farmer ( pencil drawing , 1885), bought by the Upper Austria. State Museum
  • At the haymaking ( oil on wood )
  • Nymph ( multicolor intaglio )
  • Bearded man with cap ( portrait drawing ), bought from the Innviertel Folklore House in Ried im Innkreis
  • Anna Christiane von Hammerstein-Equord ( original etching in the Upper Austrian regional archive)
  • Graphic series (Upper Austria State Archives)

Exhibitions

  • Kunsthandlung Keller und Reiner, Berlin: Exhibition of the work of the etcher Walter Ziegler (1899)

Fonts

  • The techniques of gravure printing with special consideration of the manual, artistic production processes of gravure printing plates of all kinds for use by graphic artists, painter radists and art lovers , Halle, 1901
  • The manual graphic techniques. Drawing, lithography, woodcut, copper engraving and etching, as well as the related graphic processes of letterpress, flat and gravure printing , Halle, 1912
  • Walter Ziegler (Ed.): The manual graphic techniques. Drawing, lithography, woodcut, copperplate engraving and etching, as well as the related graphic processes of letterpress, flat and gravure printing. 2 volumes, Volume I: The Black and White Art, Hall 1919 and Volume II: The Manual Color Graphics, Hall 1922, several editions

Awards

  • Walter Ziegler and Paul Klee rooms in Burghausen's community center

Web links

Commons : Walter Ziegler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Menches: More detailed considerations on the life and work of Maximilian Liebenwein (1869 to 1926) in the period 1895 to 1914, diploma thesis, 2007, p. 49 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  2. ↑ Personal: board elections in the German Kunstverein, in: Art History: Week magazine for arts and crafts, NF 21.1910, p 229
  3. ↑ Barbara Pirthauer: On Hercules Seger's etching, studies on printing technology, diploma thesis, Munich 1993, p. 5 (PDF; 554 kB)
  4. ↑ German-Bohemian Art, in: German Art and Decoration, Illustrated monthly books for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and artistic work by women, 19/1906 to 1907, p. 157
  5. ^ Correspondence from Berlin, in: Communications from the Society for Reproductive Art, 1899, p. 4 PDF
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Debrník (Deffernik) with Mark Eisenstein
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1932
Place of death Wanghausen Castle , Oh