FRANZ VON ZÜLOW* (Vienna 1883 - 1963 Vienna) Nurses, 1922...

Estimate

€1,500 - €2,500

FRANZ VON ZÜLOW*
(Vienna 1883 - 1963 Vienna)
Nurses, 1922
pencil and indian ink/paper, 20 x 30 cm
signed F v. Zülow, dated 1922
Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Representative of the Classical Modernism. Studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1903 to 1906 under Felician Myrbach and Carl Otto Czeschka. Explored graphic techniques, developed his own paper-cutting stencil technique in 1907. Participates in the 1908 art show organized by Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. Commissioned by Josef Hofmann to design wallpaper for a children's room in the Palais Stoclet. From 1909 in Haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. 1915 to 1919 military service, became an Italian prisoner of war. 1920 to 1922 teacher at the Schleiß ceramic workshops in Gmunden. From 1922 he commuted between Vienna and Upper Austria. Arts and crafts works and illustrations for the Wiener Werkstätte, among others. From the 1920s also oil paintings, especially landscapes. Belonged to the Zinkenbach painters' colony in the interwar period, like Ferdinand Kitt, Josef Dobrowsky, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Oskar Laske, Georg Merkel, Louise Merkel-Romee and Georg Ehrlich. 1942 Prohibited from painting. 1945 Member of the Vienna Secession and the Linz Artists' Association MAERZ. From 1949 teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts in Linz and from 1955 president of the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde. Influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of Jugendstil and folk art. Created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. But also prints, watercolors, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. Comes from a series of depictions of military hospitals from the possession of Dr. Dietrich Moldauer.
Franz Zülow attended the Graphic Teaching and Research Institute in 1901 and 1902 and also enrolled briefly at the Academy of Fine Arts before studying at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1903 to 1906. From an early age, Zülow experimented intensively with graphic techniques and in 1907 developed, among other things, the paper cutting stencil technique, which he also patented. From 1908 on, he was a member of the Klimt Group. In 1909 he moved to Haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. In 1912, a scholarship enabled him to undertake an extensive study trip through Western Europe. From 1915 to 1919 he did military service and was taken prisoner by the Italians. Between 1920 and 1922 he worked as a teacher at the Schleiss ceramic workshops in Gmunden. From 1922 he lived alternately in Vienna and Upper Austria and undertook several trips abroad. His decorative arts and illustrative works, which were often created for the Wiener Werkstätte, were characterized by the decorative verve of the Secession. From the 1920s he created the first oil paintings, which, like his paste-the-wall paintings and watercolors, mainly show landscapes. In the years between 1928 and 1935 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize several times, and in 1942 he was forbidden to paint by the Nazi regime. From 1933 to 1939 and from 1945 on, he belonged to the Vienna Secession and was also a member of the Linz Artists' Association Maerz. From 1949 he taught at the School of Applied Arts in Linz and from 1955 he was President of the Mühlviertler Artists' Guild. During this period he received numerous public commissions for murals and mosaics.

Based on photos from 1915, Franz Zülow drew and painted these snapshots from the infirmary at Vienna's Ostbahnhof in 1922. Both Zülow's drawings and the photographic templates come from the estate of the head of the station, Dr. Dietrich Moldauer. The historical photo material to which Zülow refers in his drawings can also be found in an elaborately made brochure with the title: "Sick station with night's rest at the Ostbahnhof in Vienna of the Patriotic Aid Association of the Red Cross for Lower Austria. Report on activities from the beginning of the war to September 1915". This station in the k.u.k. The premises of the Vienna Ostbahnhof made available to the State Railway Administration were opened shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, on August 20, 1914. It had the purpose of "providing accommodation, meals and medical assistance to sick, wounded and convalescent officers and crew members passing through Vienna as a transit station". Its director, the art-loving Dr. Dietrich Moldauer, k.u.k. Lieutenant a. D., first delegate of the Red Cross Patriotic Aid Association in Lower Austria. To date, however, it is unclear how this order came about and what the intentions of the client, Dr. Moldovans associated with it. Franz Zülow knows only too well the horrors of the First World War from his own painful experience, after all he fought as a soldier between 1915 and 1918 in Hungary, Albania and Italy, where he was taken prisoner of war by the Italians on July 12, 1918 and only released from there on August 22, 1918. August 1919 can return. Zülow chooses the templates for his drawings from photos by Charles Skolik, which are also shown in the brochure mentioned above.

SCHÄTZPREIS/ESTIMATE °€ 1.500 - 2.500