Wilhelm Dachauer
Wilhelm Dachauer (born April 5, 1881 in Ried im Innkreis , Upper Austria , † February 26, 1951 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter .
life and work
Wilhelm Dachauer studied at the Vienna Academy from 1899 to 1907 and was the same professor from 1927 to 1945.
Dachauer was rather unconsciously known to a broad public through the Austrian stamp issues he designed , including the Nibelungen saga series (1926), the army leader series (1935), the inventor series (1936), the doctor series (1937) or a special edition by Engelbert Dollfuss (1936). His Nibelungen series was honored in Philadelphia in 1926 as “the world's most beautiful postage stamp”. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich and the occupation of Poland , many postage stamps of the so-called Generalgouvernement as well as some stamps of the German Empire were exported to designs by Dachauer. Dachauer painted the granite quarry in the Mauthausen concentration camp .
After 1945 Dachauer designed other Austrian postage stamps, including the 1949 return series.
Ten glass windows and an altarpiece in the Ried hospital chapel (1928) were designed by Dachauer, and portraits of Julius Wagner-Jauregg and Viktor Kaplan have also been preserved. Around 1920 he worked for the Ferd. Piatnik & Sons designed tarot playing cards, but they were never printed. The designs are located in the Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus in Ried / Innkreis (Upper Austria).
It rests in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (12D-1-24).
Today one street, namely Wilhelm-Dachauer-Straße in Eßling in the 22nd district of Vienna , is named after the painter.
philately
- For the 100th birthday of Wilhelm Dachauer, a postage stamp was issued by the Austrian Post on April 6, 1981 (Michel catalog no. 1666). It shows a design by Wilhelm Dachauer for the Nibelungen saga series from 1926.
- There was also a special stamp from 1150 Vienna with a matching motif.
literature
- Wilhelm Dachauer, paintings and postage stamps, 1963
- Michel catalog
Web links
- Entry on Wilhelm Dachauer in the Austria Forum (biography)
- Wilhelm Dachauer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- TALON : Playing card drafts in the magazine, Vol. 19 on pages 25 - 27 (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ^ Illustration in Berthold Hinz : The painting of German fascism: Art and counterrevolution . Book guild Gutenberg, 1976 (first Hanser 1974), fig. 75 on p. 241
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dachauer, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ried im Innkreis , Upper Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1951 |
| Place of death | Vienna |