Franz Sedlacek

Franz Sedlacek Georg August Moritz ( born January 21, 1891 in Breslau; missing since 1945 in Poland ) was an Austrian painter.

Biography

Franz Sedlacek was born in 1891 in Breslau, the eldest of three sons of the Austrian chiller manufacturer Julius Sedlacek and Clare Riemann. In 1897 the family moved to Linz from Wroclaw. Sedlacek graduated in 1909 at the Imperial Royal (kk) secondary school at the Fadingerstraße and moved a year later to Vienna, where he studied architecture. The following year, he joined the Department of Chemistry. Sedlacek was incidentally always active as an artist and introduced in 1912 in Linz for the first time from. In 1913 he founded, together with Anton Lutz, Franz and Klemens Brosch and Heinz Bitzan ( 1892-1965 ) Linzer Artists Association MARCH.

After use in the First World War he joined in 1921 at the Technical University of Vienna graduated as Dr. techn. from and then worked in the Technical Museum of Industry and Commerce, Vienna, including as Head of the Department of Chemical Industry. In 1923 he married Maria Albrecht. From this marriage two daughters were born. In 1927 he became a member of the Vienna Secession. In 1933 he joined the services of the organization of the Fatherland Front at the Technical Museum. Already in 1937, he then joined the National Socialist organization operating in the Technical Museum, and applied after the Anschluss in 1938 for membership in the NSDAP. In July of the same year he applied for admission to the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. 1939 followed by a second military service. Sedlacek came to Stalingrad, Norway and Poland. Since 1945 he has been missing.

Artistic work

Sedlacek 's early work is graphically. First works appeared in magazines such as The musket and Simplicissimus. Later, however, he turned to oil painting. The works are of great accuracy and precision. Particularly characteristic applies his penchant for contrasts which he reached by the old masters Royal glazing.

The complete work is classified between Magical Realism and New Objectivity. The image themes are fantastic and surreal. Hybrids and caricatured figures predominate, the mood is often melancholy to menacing.

During the interwar period, Franz Sedlacek was considered one of the greatest artists in Austria. Later, however, his work was forgotten and honored again only since the 1990s.

  • The demoniac, WV 8, oil on board, 71 x 86 cm, Lentos ( 1921)
  • Library, WV 25, oil on plywood, 60.5 x 75.5 cm, Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, State Gallery Linz (1926 )
  • Driving Range, WV 28, oil on plywood, 26.5 x 23.3 cm, Lentos (1926 )
  • The Three Kings, WV 33, oil on plywood, 75.5 x 60 cm, Nordico City Museum Linz ( 1926)
  • Flight into Egypt, WV 34, oil on panel, 80 x 65 cm, Leopold Collection II ( 1927)
  • Nocturnal Homecoming, WV 37, oil on plywood, 60 x 75 cm, Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, State Gallery Linz (1927 )
  • Ghost above the trees, WV 44, oil on panel, 45 x 49.8 cm, Collection Leopold II ( 1928)
  • Landscape with St. Sebastian, WV 62, oil on plywood, 57.5 x 69.5 cm, Lentos (1930 )
  • Landscape with rainbow, WV 63, oil on plywood, 45 x 41.5 cm, University of Applied Arts Vienna ( 1930)
  • Winter landscape, WV 66, oil on panel, 64 x 81.5 cm Wien Museum (1931 )
  • The chemist, WV 79, oil on plywood, 82.5 x 63 cm, Vienna Museum ( 1932)
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt, WV 96, oil on plywood, 62 x 55 cm, Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, State Gallery Linz (1934 )
  • Romantic landscape with rock arch and robbers, WV 94, oil on plywood, 48 x 60 cm, Nordico City Museum Linz ( 1934)
  • East Tyrolean landscape, WV 98, oil on plywood, 47 x 62.5 cm, Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, State Gallery Linz (1934 )
  • Town in the mountains, WV 101, oil on plywood, 49.7 x 71.6 cm, Nordico City Museum Linz ( 1935)
  • Flowers, with lizard, WV 105, oil on plywood, 54 x 42.3 cm, University of Applied Arts Vienna (c. 1935 )
  • Thunderstorm countryside, WV 111, oil on plywood, 50 x 39.8 cm, Nordico City Museum Linz ( 1936)

Awards and Honors

  • Gold medal for painting at the World Exhibition in Barcelona ( 1929)
  • Austrian State Prize for the oil painting flower painting (1933 )
  • Austrian State Prize for Painting ( 1935)
  • Austrian State Prize for Painting ( 1937)
  • Price of Gaustadt Vienna ( 1939)

Exhibitions

  • Franz Sedlacek ( 1891-1945 ). Weitra -. Linz 2001 State Gallery in the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum
  • Franz Sedlacek. Chemist of the imagination. 30 January to 21 April 2014. Vienna Museum
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