Heinrich Lefler
Heinrich Lefler ( born November 7, 1863 in Vienna, † March 17, 1919 ) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and stage designer.
Life and work
Heinrich Lefler was born the son of Franz Lefler, who was also artist in Vienna.
He studied from 1880 to 1884 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Christian Griepenkerl, 1884 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Nicholas Gysi and Wilhelm von Diez. In 1891 he became a member of the Society of Austrian Artists, Artists' House. In 1900 he was a founding member of the Hagenbund.
From 1900 to 1903 Lefler was ( under the direction of Gustav Mahler ) facilities manager at the Vienna Court Opera. From 1903 to 1910 he was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. (For this professor had advertised including Gustav Klimt, ultimately it was awarded to Heinrich Lefler. One of his students at the Academy was short Richard Gerstl ). At the same time Heinrich Lefler was from 1903 features conductor at the Vienna Burgtheater. It is noteworthy that Lefler has already designed stage sets for the 1902 staging of a Wagner opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, which were delivered by ship to New York. Numerous publications on the work of the artist duo Heinrich Lefler - Joseph Urban in the va in the Anglo - American world renowned art magazine The Studio bear witness to the former reputation of the now forgotten artists. Besides his work as a stage designer in Vienna, Dresden and Berlin, his professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, his seminal work in the illustration of children 's literature, it was the collaboration with Joseph Urban and his father, the painter Franz Lefler in Weissenbach an der Triesting spent a summer resort, which offered the fulfilled life as an artist equally compensation as a source of inspiration. Together with his father executed murals on the facades of villas and hotels, lovingly designed invitation cards to summer festivals in Weissenbach and together with his librettist Camillo Walzel staged kids and summer theater productions provide a glimpse of it that even the summer his thirst could not stop.
The interdisciplinary artist duo Heinrich Lefler - Joseph Urban records but also responsible for the artistic by design a temporary exhibition and festival event projects, such as the Schiller Festival Parade of 1905 in Vienna and the procession along the Ringstrasse on the occasion of the Emperor 's Jubilee of 1908, both accompanied by lavish publications that cater to the then contemporary claim to the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk in an impressive way. Under the artistic direction of Hugo von Tschudi (whose commitment to art in Wassily Kandinsky's theoretical work, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, honorable mention place) created in 1907 in Germany, another magnificently equipped example former book art with top-class Illustrations by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, illustrations, artistically oriented to the work of William Morris and the Arts and process suggestions Crafts Movement in creative independent manner. For his 60th birthday, the writer Detlev von Liliencron was honored with an artistically designed by Heinrich Lefler Festschrift to the most famous authors of the time (Peter Altenberg, Hermann Bahr, Marie von Ebner -Eschenbach, Roda Roda, Peter Roseggerhaus, Ferdinand von Saar, Arthur Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig and many others) written contributions. The concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, or for penetration of art and life are also Heinrich Lefler designs of banknotes and warrants, as well as his seminal poster designs for the company " Auer light " and to have a connection to the beloved by Heinrich Lefler summer in Weissenbach on the make - Triesting advertising posters for the Krupp company in Bern village, precisely the reconciliation between work and art thematize in her statement, which are also characteristic of the " classroom style " of subsequently erected there school later. There are also artistic works for the watercolourist club, for the bicycle and floral floats, designs of calendars and numerous fairy tales and songs books and visual aids for the classroom. Worthy of mention is the successful collaboration with the director and theater director Rainer Simons at the Kaiser Franz Joseph Jubilee City Theatre, now the Vienna Volksoper. Evidence for a mutual appreciation and va a successful stage artistic collaboration with Max Reinhardt found in the Max Reinhardt Collection Harvard University in the U.S., in which major costume and stage designs Heinrich Lelfers have received.
Heinrich Lefler was one of the first artists of Austria, which were engaged in applied art and designed as posters for companies, events and magazines.
Together with Josef Urban, he is responsible for the equipment of the Vienna City Hall basement and for the design and interior of the palace of Count Esterhazy.
1903 Henry married Lelfer the opera singer Mina Wiesmüller, whose portrait graced the 1902 he designed 1000 crowns banknote.
1919 Heinrich Lefler died in Vienna. He has a memorial grave at the Central Cemetery in Vienna. In 1932 ( 22nd District ), the Heinrich Lefler alley named after him in Vienna Danube city.
Lefler and Joseph Urban
The first contact between the two artists was mediated by their mutual friend, the singer and actor Leo Slezak. Urban later married Lefler sister Maria ( Mitzi ), which in addition to friendship and business and family ties between the two were linked.
Together with his brother Joseph Urban Lefler was the most important artists of European Art Nouveau. Both artists often worked together and designed, for example, a 1905 calendar published with designs from the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm or a calendar on 1913 (1912 ) with retold by Hugo Salus fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Urban always having supplied the decorative framing to Lefler illustrations.