Anton Faistauer (1887-1930)

Professions: Painter

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  Anton Faistauer (1887-1930)

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  Anton Faistauer (1887-1930)

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  Anton Faistauer , Austrian 1887-1930 Blumen Stillleben (Still Life with Flowers) oil on canvas

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  Anton Faistauer , Austrian 1887-1930 Häuser am Hang (Houses on a Slope) oil on canvas

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Anton Faistauer Biography

(b Saint Martin bei Lofer, Salzburg, 14 Feb 1887; d Vienna, 13 Feb 1930). Austrian painter. He began his studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna in 1906. As a protest against the conservatism of his professor, the German painter Christian Griepenkerl (1839–1916), he left with some like-minded students in 1909 to establish the NEUKUNSTGRUPPE, which exhibited for the first time in Vienna in the same year. A second exhibition in 1911 with the Hagenbund group was an important event for modern Austrian painting, but Faistauer himself was unable to gain public recognition. In the first period of his work he remained in the European tradition of colouristic painting with a strong affinity to Cézanne; he used colour in his landscapes and still-lifes to build the picture in a tectonic way, as in Still-life with Apples, Jug, Wine Bottle and Glass (c. 1912; Salzburg, Mus. Carolino-Augusteum). In his portraits he neglected individual, psychological characterization of his models, for example in Ida, the Painter’s First Wife on a Red Sofa (1913; Vienna, Belvedere). An exhibition that had already been arranged with Paul Cassirer in Berlin had to be cancelled when World War I broke out. After the war he lived for a few years in Salzburg, where he was involved with the foundation of the artistic group Der Wassermann in 1919.

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