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Leopold Blauensteiner (* 16. January 1880 - 19. February 1947 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter. Biography His parents were Leopold Blaustein (born November 10, 1841) and Johanna Toscano del Banner (born February 22, 1849). His life coincided with a politically contentious time. He was an orphan. His father died shortly after his birth, his mother died in 1887. He attended the grammar school in Melk. As a student he worked on the restoration of the Melk church. After leaving school, he attended the one-year volunteer year in the military. Then he started painting studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Professor Christian Griepenkerl and studied a few semesters of art history. Privately, he took lessons with Alfred Roller, who ran the magazine of the newly formed secession "Ver Sacrum", which was represented in blue Steiner in 1903 and 1904 with woodblock prints. This was his first appearance in public. In 1904 he married Friderika Berger, who bore him three sons. In 1908, he worked actively in the "art show" with. In 1909 he became a board member of the "Klimt-Group". Then in 1911 he became a board member of theBund Hagen. In the First World War he entered the Lancers in 1916 and became a first lieutenant. In 1924 he was a member of the group "The Hand", which issued in the Zedlitzhalle. He bought a house in Melk, where he worked from 1925 as curator of the Monument Office for the District of Melk and pursued in his studio painting. In 1920 he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. In 1927 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize. In 1929 he got for his painting "Funerali" a scholarship for one academic year in Italy, where he stayed until 1930. In 1932 he received the State Prize medal and the title of Professor awarded. In 1933 he joined the Nazi party in order after it was banned in Austria to leave them again. In 1934 he joined the Popular Front. In 1937 he became president of the association of artists of Vienna and president of the Permanent Delegstion of Austrian Artists. In 1938 he was elected president of the Vienna Künstlerhaus "is selected, which he headed until 1941. In 1939, he reactivated his membership in the Nazi Party and was appointed National Director of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Vienna.[1] He was soon dismissed it from this position, but then reinstated as an honorary director. He stopped in 1944, that was built in the house a production artist for the Heinkel Aircraft Works. He prevented the destruction of sculptures of the so-called degenerate art by artists such as Carry Hauser, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and others, and this was brought to the landfill in the mine Altaussee. Leopold Blaustein lost in world war two sons. In 1945 he was arrested on the basis of a report by the Russian occupation forces and taken later in the Vienna Regional Court. After a court hearing in which he was acquitted of National Socialist activities, followed by his dismissal. A detention compensation was refused on the grounds that "reasonable suspicion" existed. In 1947 he died at the age of 67 from heart failure. Works His main works include: "Funerali at Melk Abbey," "The dead son," "The track," "Symphony in Blue", family pictures and landscapes. Even before the Second World War half of his oeuvre was sold. Study trips to Italy, Dalmatia, Lorraine and Germany brought many landscapes. He fired exhibitions in Prague, Dresden, Berlin and other cities. Although he worked primarily as a painter, there are also designs furniture and designs for grating, lanterns and more. He also designed the meeting room of the "Cockaigne" in Melk. He also performed with Gustav Mahler facilities of the Vienna Opera. His paintings are mainly privately owned. A gallery in Bern with the company name Pollak, which no longer exists, bought a lot of pictures. In museums and galleries at home and abroad, he is also represented. His work has the Austrian Belvedere, Albertina, the Museum of the College of Applied Arts, the Vienna City Hall, the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the Rupertinum in Salzburg, the Lower Austrian Provincial Museum in St. Pölten and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. References 1. ^ othes.univie.ac.at Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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