Wilhelm Dachauer

Wilhelm Dachau ( born April 5, 1881 in Ried, Upper Austria, † February 26, 1951 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.

Life and work

Wilhelm Dachau studied from 1899 to 1907 at the Vienna Academy, and was from 1927 to 1945 professor bonded to it.

A wide audience was Dachau rather unconsciously known by the Austrian stamp expenditures made ​​by it, including the Nibelungen saga series (1926 ), the army commander series (1935 ), the inventor series (1936 ), the hospital drama (1937 ), or a special edition of Engelbert Dollfuss (1936). His Nibelungen series won in 1926 in Philadelphia as "the most beautiful stamp in the world ". After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich and the occupation of Poland also many stamps of the so-called General Government, as well as some brands of the German Reich were executed according to the designs of Dachau. After 1945, designed Dachau other Austrian stamps, including those returning home series of 1949.

Ten stained glass windows and an altarpiece in the hospital chapel Ried (1928 ) are designed by Dachau, beyond portraits of Julius Wagner -Jauregg and Viktor Kaplan are obtained.

He is buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the Vienna Central Cemetery ( 12D -1 -24).

Today is a road, namely, the Wilhelm- Dachau Street in Essling in the 22nd district of Vienna, named after the painter.

Philately

• On the 100th birthday of William Dachau, a postage stamp was brought by the post of Austria to issue ( Michel catalog No. 1666) on 6 April 1981. The postage stamp shows a design by William Dachau to Nibelungensage series from the year 1926.
• In addition there was a special of 1150 Vienna with a motif of the Nibelungen saga.