Paintings
Karl Truppe ( 1887-1959) Austrian Painter
Karl Truppe (born February 9, 1887 in Ebenthal in Carinthia; † 22 February 1959 in Viktring) was an Austrian painter and university professor. He portrayed e.g. Adolf Hitler.
Truppe was born the son of a village schoolmaster. As his father later lived in Viktring, he came early to the Viktringer artistic circle in contact. Ludwig Willroider was the first artist who introduced the young group in the painting. Truppe, who was also musically gifted, decided then but for the painting.
After graduating from high school squad in 1905 went to Vienna and studied until 1913 years at the Art Academy. Academy for his last work he was awarded the Rome Prize. In addition, he used to, but always also play the cello, which he remained connected to the whole life long passion. The First World War as an officer brought him to Galicia, where he became a war artist. He was the press bureau of the Austro-Hungarian high command assigned and recorded diligently war scenes. Some generals, and even Charles could be a portrait of him.
From 1917 to 1937 the artist lived in Brno, but regularly spent the summer in Viktring, where his father purchased the later designated as Troop SchlössI house and set up a studio in it for his son had. His reputation as a portraitist of celebrities brought him orders from home and abroad. Sun troops painted in 1928, for example, the Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. An invitation to the United States troops in 1931, opened new perspectives. Portrait commissions took him to New York and Chicago. Back in Europe, he was floating on a wave of success that made him restless. In German cities soon followed by an exhibition of the other.
Even under Nazi rule Truppe was held in high esteem, in 1938 it reached an appointment as Professor of Fine Art at the Art Academy in Dresden. He portrayed Adolf Hitler (The Führer, 1943) and painted many pictures in the taste of the time.
In 1942 he painted himself to death as a chess partner. 1943 was a painter in Munich. Troops had remained faithful to his style of painting. It created still lifes, nudes, landscapes, paintings with mythological representations or folksy content. Signed in red Some were reminded of Rembrandt, such as the "Holy Family" in 1937. It was estimated his record in oil, such as "My two models" of 1938 or "being and becoming", one of his best known works. In between, he created portraits and over again. Even with self-portraits he did not spare. 1944 troop went back to Viktring.
After the end of the Third Reich, he was largely forgotten, but 1951 was ex-interior minister Vincent Schumy paint from him. Even Governor Ferdinand Wedenig he could portray. Troupe founded a society of art lovers as well as painting and drawing, and taught school in the early fifties at the community college in Klagenfurt. Having already had two strokes brought his artistic work to a halt, he died in 1959th
1964 was the widow of the painter's museum in the district of Spittal an der Drau a larger selection of images from the estate of a permanent exhibition in the show rooms of the castle Porcia.
The name Truppe brings to either those images together to remember by the light-dark composition of old masters, or the 500 portraits he made throughout his long life. As a contemporary of Herbert Boeckl Nötscher circle and Truppe had it not always easy: His art was widely regarded as anachronistic, his time painting was lagging in the art historians do not recognize. Troops stood in the shadow of Wiegele, Anton Kolig, Clementschitsch and Boeckl. The Carinthian art trade occasionally one comes to a copy of a painting by Truppe.
Literature
Anton Kreuzer: "Carinthian portraits", University Press Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1993, pp. 192f, ISBN 3-85378-407-0
Web Links
Literature by and about Karl Truppe in the German National Library catalog
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