Wilhelm Traeger

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Wilhelm Traeger (born May 27, 1907 in Vienna , † July 10, 1980 in Ried im Innkreis ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist of the New Objectivity . From 1970 to 1974 he was president of the Upper Austrian Art Association .

Training and work

Wilhelm Traeger grew up in Vienna and after the First World War was one of the starving Viennese children who were nursed up in Denmark in the summer. He found a Danish foster family with whom he remained connected throughout his life and who also helped him finance his studies. From 1925 to 1933 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Hans Tichy, Wilhelm Dachauer and Josef Jungwirth and from 1929 in Rudolf Bacher's master class. In 1930 he passed the teaching examination at the Vienna University of Technology for mathematics and descriptive geometryfrom. From 1930 to 1933 he taught at Viennese grammar schools from 1933 to 1936 in Wels and from 1936 in Ried as an art teacher . In 1935 he became a member of the Upper Austrian Art Association, the Innviertler Künstlergilde, the Vienna Secession and the Künstlerhaus Wien . In 1936 he moved to Ried im Innkreis. During the Second World War he was a corporal with the flak and from 1942 as a Pk reporter for the German Wehrmacht . After the war he continued teaching in Ried im Innkreis. In 1946 he tried to reorganize the Innviertel artists' guild together with Max Bauböck , Walther Gabler and Engelbert Daringer . From 1970 to 1974 he was president of the Upper Austrian Art Association.

Works

  • Linocut series Vienna 1932 , socially critical collages and charcoal drawings
  • In 1963 a plastic metal relief with the inscription LAWOG was created in Linz's Franck district

Exhibitions

  • Wilhelm Traeger on his 100th birthday in the Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus in Ried im Innkreis. In: Info sheet No. 2/2007 pp. 21–22, Association of Upper Austrian Museums

Awards

  • Fügerpreis
  • Wilhelm-Traeger-Strasse in Ried im Innkreis is named after him.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Träger, in: Web presence of the city of Linz
  2. ^ Wilhelm Träger, in: Belvedere web presence
personal data
SURNAME Traeger, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1980
Place of death Ried im Innkreis