ALBERT JANESCH* (Vienna 1889 - 1973 Vienna) Discus throwers red chalk/paper, 49,5 x 62,7 cm signed A. Janesch ...

ALBERT JANESCH* (Vienna 1889 - 1973 Vienna)
Discus throwers
red chalk/paper, 49,5 x 62,7 cm
signed A. Janesch
inscribed on passe-partout Diskuswerfer

ESTIMATE °€ 600 - 800
STARTING PRICE °€ 600

From 1904 to 1912, the Austrian portrait and genre painter Albert Janesch studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts; his teachers were Siegmund L'Allemand and Franz Rumpler. In October 1915 he was accepted as a war painter into the k. u. k. Kriegspressequartier (Imperial and Royal War Press Office). He worked in Belgrade, then Trieste and, until autumn 1916, on various sections of the Isonzo Front. From December 1917 to June 1918, he was on the Turkish front. In 1916, Janesch received first prize in the war memorial competition. During the Second World War, Janesch was again deployed as a war painter, working on the south and west coasts of France, in Russia and Greece. After the war, he was commissioned to decorate the“Iron Hall” of the newly built artillery hall of Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military History Museum): thus, in 1952/53, he executed the fresco “The Artillery of Emperor Maximilian I.”, based on a painting by Jörg Kölderers.

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