Showing posts with label Anton Kolig. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anton Kolig. Show all posts
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Anton Kolig, Part 1 - Drawings

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When I visited Vienna last year, I came across a lone painting by expressionist Anton Kolig  (1886-1950) in the Belvedere Palace Museum.  I ...
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Standing Male 1934

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Anton Kolig left us quite a large assortment of drawings, and nearly all of them are years  past his academic training.  He apparently liked...
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Front and Back

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Kolig's drawings include quite a few pairs of men. These two look like they may be in bed together.  
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Derriere

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Anton Kolig apparently was a fan of frontal nudity because there are relatively  few derriere views in his body of work.  This example is no...
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1923

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This oddity is a study done in 1923 that has the foot detached.  
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1910

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Kolig's drawings include a lot of men shown from this angle  for some reason.  This version is from 1910.  
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Anton Kolig, Intermission - World War I

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Our intermission mini-set today is not only a break in our series, but it also represents a break of sorts in Anton Kolig's career.  Whe...

Russian

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I wish I knew the story behind this one.  It's a portrait of an unknown Russion prisoner of war from 1916.  Did the Austrian Army commis...
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General

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The Austro-Hungarian Empire has only a few months left when Anton Kolig  painted this portrait of Gen. Gottfried Seibt von Ringenhart in 191...
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Anton Kolig, Part 2 - Male Nude Paintings

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Part two of our double feature consists of male nudes done from 1920 to 1948.   Anton Kolig really came into his own as an expressionist pai...
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Grim Reaper

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This is a detail from a 1924 painted sketch for a mural that was to have been installed in the  Vienna City Crematorium.  The mural was neve...

1925

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Anton Kolig painted Nude Male Couple in 1925, and it was quite daring for the time.  
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Family

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This is The Painter's Family from 1933.  I'm not really sure just which  painter's family it might be, but it is an interesting ...

Rudolph Hradil

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After the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945, Anton Kolig was able to resume painting  with the style and subjects he preferred.  This is a Rud...
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