Blauensteiner Leopold

Vienna 1880 – 1947 Vienna

Painter and graphic artist

Painter and graphic artist, Prof. h.c. Studied after high school in Melk, Lower Austria, 1898 - 1902 (interrupted by one year of military service) at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Gripenkerl and was a private student of Alfred Roller, joined the Klimt circle, member of the Vienna Secession (resigned with the Klimt group), the Kunstschau 1908/09, the Hagenbund 1911 - 20, then the Künstlerhaus (1938 - 41 president). 1916 - 30 he also lived in Melk a. d. Danube, travels to Dalmatia, Germany and Italy. In the harmony of color and light, mediated by a peculiar application of paint (oil-tempera), a kind of pointillism, where the pure color by means of spread brush bristles is superimposed in a brush-like manner, the impression of a precious fabric is created; the depicted things, surrounded by light, are stripped of their hardness. Works: Painted fans from around 1900 in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna. With color woodcuts he was represented in the Ver Sacrum (Willow Bushes in the Snow, 1903) and in the exhibition of the Secession in 1905 (Barges, Parktor). In the former Kunstschau building, built by Josef Hoffmann under Gustav Klimt's presidency, he was represented in 1908 with the paintings Bibliothek Stift Melk, Kirche Melk, Glashäuser im Stift and Parkpavillon, and in 1909 with a portrait of his wife and a nude. In 1909 he showed a portrait of a child in the Munich Glass Palace. A pastel Waldinneres was in 1911 in the Hagenbund. At the Secession: 1918 Portrait, Newspaper Reader, Winter in the Woods, Winter Evening; 1919 The Mountain Lake, The Wagnerei, etc. Prizes: 1927 State Prize; 1932 State Prize Medal, Gold Medal of the Künstlerhaus.