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JOSEF STOITZNER (Vienna 1884 - 1951 Bramberg)

From the Tauern
Color woodcut/paper 42 x 46 cm
signed J. Stoitzner

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 400 - 800
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 400

Josef Stoitzner, son of the landscape painter Kontantin Stoitzner, was an Autrian artist. He received his first artistic training at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Anton von Kenner. From 1906 to 1908, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Franz Rumpler. In 1905, he began working as a drawing teacher and passed his teaching examination in 1909, which enabled him to succeed the landscape painter Tina Blau as a teacher at the Wiener Frauenakademie (Vienna Women's Academy) from 1916 to 1919. From 1922, Stoitzner worked as a Fachinspektor für den Zeichenunterricht (inspector for drawing classes) at the Bundeserziehungsanstalten (federal educational institutions) in Vienna, Traiskirchen, Wiener Neustadt, and Graz-Liebenau, and from 1937 also as a specialist inspector for drawing and manual skills classes at the boys' middle schools in Vienna. His teaching career eventually led him back to the Vienna Academy, where he taught as a lecturer from 1932 to 1944. In terms of printing techniques, he was particularly interested in color woodcuts and lithography. In 1914, he was awarded the Gold Medal at the Leipzig Exhibition of Book Trade and Graphic Arts, as well as the Medal of the City of Graz. He joined the Vienna Secession as early as 1909 and became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1939. Further artists and styles: print, woodcut, Alfons Walde, Herbert Gurschner, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Wander Bertoni, Max Domenig, Adolf Frohner, Bruno Gironcoli, Zaha Hadid, Anton Hanak, Matthias Herrmann, Wolfgang Hutter, Martha Jungwirth, Erika Giovanna Klien, Gustav Klimt, Hans Knesl, Oskar Kokoschka, Brigitte Kowanz, Maria Lassnig, Bertold Löffler, Dorit Margreiter, Koloman Moser, Oswald Oberhuber, Michael Powolny, Pipilotti Rist, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Hans Schabus, Eva Schlegel, Vivienne Westwood, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Erwin Wurm, Otto Zitko

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