Anton Lehmden

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Anton Lehmden (2 January 1929 – 7 August 2018) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

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Biography Lehmden was a co-founder, together with Ernst Fuchs, Maître Leherb (Helmut Leherb), Rudolf Hausner, Arik Brauer, Fritz Janschka and Wolfgang Hutter, of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. He settled in Vienna after 1945 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1948 he was represented in exhibitions of the Vienna Art-Club and has also been represented in many international exhibitions. He taught in Istanbul from 1962/63 and from 1971 to 1997 was Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts 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…Citește mai mult

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Literature Walter Schurian, Gerd Lindner: 1900 bis 2010: Phantastische Kunst aus Wien. Panorama-Museum, Bad Frankenhausen 2010 ISBN 9783938049174 (with Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter) Norbert Langer: Aufschlüsse – Lovis-Corinth-Preis 1984 (Anton Lehmden und Roland Dörfler). In: Sudetenland: Europäische Kulturzeitschrift; Böhmen, Mähren, Schlesien; (1985)