Walther Gabler
Walther Gabler (born June 30, 1915 in Ried im Innkreis ; † April 7, 1993 ibid) was an Austrian portrait and landscape painter .
Live and act
Gabler was the son of Ried drawing professor Heinrich Gabler (1884–1930) and studied after graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium Ried in 1934 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Carl Fahringer , Wilhelm Dachauer as well as Herbert Dimmel and Carl Martin . In addition, he attended lectures on general art history , German literary history as well as philosophy and education as well as the auxiliary subjects anatomy , perspective , color chemistry , color theory and ornamental writing . In 1937 he was awarded the Academic Study Prize. In 1939 he passed the teaching qualification test for drawing and handicrafts for boys at secondary schools and began his professional career at the federal high school and federal high school in Ried, before he was drafted into the German armed forces in 1940 and moved to the Eastern Front. During this time numerous portraits of Russian farmers and landscape studies were created. At the end of May 1945 he resumed his apprenticeship in Ried.
Walther Gabler was married to Ernestine and had two sons. In 1958 the family moved into their own home in Ried, which had been built in the previous two years. In 1975 he retired. In 1991, in a fire in his studio, parts of his art collection were damaged in addition to his own works. He died in 1993 as a result of a serious accident.
Further tasks
- 1946 to 1984 chairman of the re-established Innviertel artists' guild , with which he had already come into contact in 1935 through Max Bauböck . In this function he arranged numerous exhibitions. In 1970 he was awarded honorary membership of the guild and after resigning from the guild chairmanship he became its honorary chairman in 1984.
- Membership in the Upper Austrian Art Association
- Membership in and representation of interests for the Ried district for the Upper Austria regional association of the professional association of visual artists in Austria
- Expert for the written subject at the District Court of Ried
Exhibitions
- Numerous portrait drawings of Russian farmers and landscape studies were made during the war . He was able to exhibit some of them at the exhibition of works by comrades who had moved in from the Upper Danube Artists' Union in April 1943.
- In 1946 the only solo exhibition of Gabler's works took place in Ried, where 121 works, including pencil drawings, watercolors and oil paintings, were exhibited.
- In his function as chairman of the Innviertel artists' guild, he arranged numerous exhibitions, where he repeatedly showed his own works (including portraits, works in numerous techniques, including experimental ones, landscapes, still lifes in oil and watercolor).
- Works by him are in the Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus in Ried, in the Upper Austrian State Gallery and in the City Museum Nordico in Linz .
- 2010 Walther Gabler special exhibition in the Innviertler Volkskundehaus Museum in Ried im Innkreis
Awards
- Division award of the 137th Infantry Division
- Gau culture award for Upper Danube
- City of Ried Art Prize (1953)
- Professional title Oberstudienrat (1970)
- Silver medal of the state of Upper Austria
- Ring of Honor of the City of Ried (1984)
- The Walther-Gabler-Weg was named after him in Ried im Innkreis
literature
- Franz Engl : Walther Gabler , in: Yearbook of the Innviertler Künstlergilde 1993/94, Ried im Innkreis, p. 6f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Gabler, in: Schallmeiner's website ( Memento from November 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Franz Engl , in: Web presence of Regiowiki.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gabler, Walther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian school teacher and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ried im Innkreis |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1993 |
| Place of death | Ried im Innkreis |