
Anton Lehmden (2 January 1929 – 7 August 2018) was an
Austria
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n painter,
draughtsman, and
printmaker
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.
Lehmden was a co-founder, together with
Ernst Fuchs,
Maître Leherb (Helmut Leherb),
Rudolf Hausner
Rudolf Hausner (4 December 1914, Vienna – 25 February 1995, Mödling) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical painter" (Gunter Engelhardt ...
,
Arik Brauer
Arik Brauer ( he, אריק בראואר; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher.
Brauer, from a family of Jewish emigrants, grew ...
,
Fritz Janschka
Fritz Janschka (1919 – April 30, 2016) was an Austrian art
Austrian culture has been influenced by its past and present neighbours: Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, and Bohemia.
Music
Vienna, the capital city of the 2nd Republi ...
and
Wolfgang Hutter Wolfgang Hutter (December 13, 1928 – September 26, 2014) was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer. Hutter's imagery is characterised by an artificial paradise of gardens and fantastical fairytale-like scenes. His work is said to ...
, of the
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism
The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (german: Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus) is a group of artists founded in Vienna in 1946. It includes Ernst Fuchs, Maître Leherb (Helmut Leherb), Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmde ...
. He settled in
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after 1945 and studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
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In 1948 he was represented in exhibitions of the
Vienna
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and has also been represented in many international exhibitions. He taught in
Istanbul
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from 1962/63 and from 1971 to 1997 was Professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts
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in Vienna.
Between 1947 and 1950 he went to participate in several exhibitions and important trips to Italy, which was the time his first major artworks were created.
Lehmden's early works were inspired by his love for Chinese landscape painting, and his focus was mainly the lyrical moment in the landscape. However the recurring themes in his later works are war events and natural catastrophes, bursting and expressive scenes, mythical themes, cosmic dreams and apocalyptic visions over decades and in ever-changing variations. Traumatic war experiences are processed in images on themes such as "Panzerschlacht". In these works he also uses elements of architecture, monuments of the ancient world, which the Lehmden studied on his numerous journeys (such as the Colosseum in Rome or the Egyptian Pyramids).
Lehmden's work has been extensively exhibited in Italy, Austria, Japan, United States, Germany, Turkey and Poland.
Lehmden designed the subway station Volkstheater in Vienna in 1991.
In 1999, Lehmden was appointed an honorary citizen of
Deutschkreutz
Deutschkreutz ( hu, Sopronkeresztúr until 1899, ''Németkeresztúr'' yi, צעלעם, translit=Zelem hr, Kerestur) is an Austrian market town in the district of Oberpullendorf in the state of Burgenland.
Geography
Deutschkreutz lies in Middl ...
town, where he also redesigned the parish church artistically.
In 1984 he was awarded the Lovis-Corinth Prize.
In 1966 he acquired the Renaissance castle Schloss Deutschkreutz (Burgenland), which he then spent years restoring. Since 2003 the "Lehmden Sommerakademie" – Lehmden's summer painting school – has been held there. Since 2016 the castle is open for visitors in the summer months and guided tours are available.
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Literature
* Walter Schurian, Gerd Lindner: ''1900 bis 2010: Phantastische Kunst aus Wien.'' Panorama-Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
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2010 (with Arik Brauer
Arik Brauer ( he, אריק בראואר; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher.
Brauer, from a family of Jewish emigrants, grew ...
, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner
Rudolf Hausner (4 December 1914, Vienna – 25 February 1995, Mödling) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical painter" (Gunter Engelhardt ...
and Wolfgang Hutter Wolfgang Hutter (December 13, 1928 – September 26, 2014) was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer. Hutter's imagery is characterised by an artificial paradise of gardens and fantastical fairytale-like scenes. His work is said to ...
)
* Norbert Langer: ''Aufschlüsse – Lovis-Corinth-Preis 1984'' (Anton Lehmden und Roland Dörfler
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). In: Sudetenland: Europäische Kulturzeitschrift; Böhmen, Mähren, Schlesien; (1985)
References
External links
Artcyclopedia entry
Anton Lehmden in Gallery 10
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1929 births
2018 deaths
Slovak artists
20th-century Austrian painters
Austrian male painters
21st-century Austrian painters
21st-century male artists
Austrian printmakers
Fantastic realism
Hungarian-German people
People of Hungarian German descent
Austrian people of Slovak descent
People from Nitra
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni
Austrian contemporary artists
20th-century printmakers
20th-century Austrian male artists