UNBEKANNTER KUENSTLER Winter sports at Dreimarkstein, 1930 oil/canvas, 155 x 289 cm inscribed Wintersport am ...

UNBEKANNTER KUENSTLER
Winter sports at Dreimarkstein, 1930
oil/canvas, 155 x 289 cm
inscribed Wintersport am Dreimarkstein anno 1930
provenance: previous owner of the hut at Roan

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This cultural-historical contemporary document by an unknown Viennese commercial artist once served as decoration and advertising inside the restaurant “Häuserl am Roan” on Dreimarkstein on the edge of the Döbling district of Vienna. One of the skiers pictured is making a parallel turn. At the beginning of the 1930s, Anton Seelos from Seefeld triumphed at the World Championships with this technique he had invented. In 1930, when the picture was taken, skiing was popularvery popular at competition level and as a leisure activity. The monarchy's first ski club was founded in Vienna in 1891. Out of “Erster Wiener Ski-Verein” founded in Pötzleinsdorf gave rise to “Österreichischer Ski-Verein” in 1893. Club championships were held and in 1896 the first international competition, a ski derby between Austria and Norway. Until the First World War, new races were held in Vienna every year. After the end of the war, skiing in the Alps experienced another enormous boom. On the one hand, from the holdings of the Imperial and Royal Army countless pairs of skis and other equipment to market; on the other hand, the first Winter Olympics and Arnold Fanck's films contributed to the popularization of winter sports. Skiing also continued to be popular as a popular sport in Vienna. The present painting shows parallels to poster art of the 1920s, which became particularly popular in Tyrol with similar subjects. As in the winter and skier images of Tyrolean modernism, reduced formal language and pictorial moments go hand in hand. The A tablet painted in a trompe-l'oeuil style on the right edge of the picture with a title and date is reminiscent of contemporary sign painting. If the painting came from Tyrol, one would easily assume that the author was among the representatives of Tyrolean modernism, in the broader circle of Alfons Walde, Herbert Gurschner or Albin Egger-Lienz. The image associated with traditional naturalism, the winter image, is hardly conceivable in the view of modern everyday reality without the influences of modernity, without expressionism and New Objectivity.

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