Wilhelm Legler

Wilhelm Legler (born April 3, 1875 in Pisino , Croatia ; † April 28, 1951 in Stillfried , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian painter .

biography

Legler studied from 1897 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Carl Moll and then from 1899 to 1906 in Stuttgart with Robert Poetzelberger , Leopold von Kalckreuth and Adolf Hölzel as well as etching with Alexander Eckener .

From 1906 he worked mainly in Vienna and Linz, later also in Dimburg and Stillfried an der March. From 1929 he lived and worked mainly in Vienna, where from 1914 he was a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus .

During his time in Stuttgart he made numerous etchings, was artistically influenced by Carl Moll until 1915, but then turned increasingly to landscape painting and mainly painted landscapes of the Marchland . His works were exhibited at the Vienna Art Show in 1908 and at the International Art Show in Vienna in 1909.

During the Second World War , Legler's house at Rainergasse 27 in Vienna was destroyed by a bomb attack in April 1945, and with it all of his artistic work. In 1957, Wilhelm-Legler-Gasse in Vienna was named after him.

His works can be found in the Albertina Vienna , Belvedere Vienna and in the Lower Austrian State Museum in St. Pölten .

Private

Legler was first married to Margarete Schindler (1880-1942), a stepdaughter of his teacher Carl Moll and sister of Alma Mahler .

Awards

Drasche Prize, 1915
Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna, 1931
State Prize, 1933 and 1935
Prize of the City of Vienna, 1938

literature

Legler, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928.
Robert Teichl: Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries. Publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1951.
Legler, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 202 .

Web links

Wilhelm Legler on artnet

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Kunsthandel Hieke: Wilhelm Legler (1875–1951). Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Vienna City and State Archives: Wilhelm Legler (painter). In: History Wiki Vienna. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
^ Vienna City and State Archives: Wilhelm-Legler-Gasse. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
↑ Erika Tietze-Conrat: Erica Tietze-Conrat: Diaries . Volume I: The Viennese Vasari (1923–1926). . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79545-2 , pp. 178 ( books.google.de - excerpt).

personal data
SURNAME	Legler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pazin
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1951
Place of death	Stillfried

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Kunsthandel Hieke: Wilhelm Legler (1875–1951). Retrieved December 25, 2019 .

[:1-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Vienna City and State Archives: Wilhelm Legler (painter). In: History Wiki Vienna. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .

[3] Vienna City and State Archives: Wilhelm-Legler-Gasse. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .

[4] Erika Tietze-Conrat: Erica Tietze-Conrat: Diaries . Volume I: The Viennese Vasari (1923–1926). . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79545-2 , pp. 178 ( books.google.de - excerpt).