Innsbruck 1901 – 1975 London
Herbert Gurschner was an Austrian painter and woodcarver. He studied at the trade school and was a guest student in the painting department. After the first lessons in painting and graphics at the private painting and drawing school Walter Thor in Munich, he joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1917 and was a student of Peter von Halm for 6 semesters, and for a short time also of Franz von Stuck. In 1925 his first exhibition took place in London, his later second home. Until 1927, exhibitions followed at the Kunstverein Salzburg, in Vienna, Düsseldorf and Nuremberg. In 1930 he was a guest of Italy and also of England at the Venice Biennale. After the war, Gurschner turned to stage design and worked for the Covent Garden Opera, the Globe and Hammersmith Theatre.
Ref.: H. Fuchs, Die österreichischen Maler des 20. Jahrhunderts, volume 2, ch. 30; F. Novotny, Oskar Laske, Vienna 1954
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