Luigi Kasimir

Luigi Kasimir (actually Alois Heinrich, born April 18, 1881 in Ptuj, Lower Styria, † August 6, 1962 in Vienna ) was an etcher, lithographer and engraver. His father, Alois Kasimir, and his grandfather were painters.

Kasimir attended the grammar school, where he received drawing lessons from Heinrich bank in Graz.

He studied from 1900 to 1905 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1905 he exhibited his watercolor vistas for the first time at the Vienna Künstlerhaus from and completed his education in 1906/07 of Graphic Arts and Research Institute in Vienna. In 1911 he married the hitherto unknown artist Tanna Hoernes which studied at the Vienna School of Arts and with whom he had three sons. He created aquatints with designs from Europe and New York and developed his own technique of color etching. Kasimir left about 2500 copper plates and is considered one of the most important creators of vedutas the 20th century.

Works

• Vienna, 1912 (Etchings)
• Galicia. An artist diary, 1915 (drawings )
• Salzburg, 1923 ( stone carvings )