Anton Nowak
Illustration — The Sonnenburg Anton Nowak (10 May 1865 – 28 May 1932) was an Austrian artist and graphic designer.
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Anton Nowak
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- Born
- 1865 · Maribor.
- Died
- 1932 · Brno.
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary · Czechoslovakia
- Occupation
- painter · graphic designer · graphic artist
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — The Sonnenburg Anton Nowak (10 May 1865 – 28 May 1932) was an Austrian artist and graphic designer.
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Anton Nowak studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Netherlands and Volendam. Work by Anton Nowak is recorded in the collections of Belvedere and Maribor Art Gallery.
Nowak was born in Maribor and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl and Leopold Karl Müller. In 1894, he joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and had a work shown at the group's first exhibition. Nowak contributed woodcuts to the group's magazine Ver Sacrum, taking inspiration from the northern Adriatic region. He was on the group's working committee in 1898, 1902, and served as the group's president in 1908–09. He also painted watercolours of Austrian countryside and the city of Brno, where he ran a painting school. He may have died in the city, but this is not certain.
Style
Style
Nowak's paintings were brightly coloured and naturalistic; under the Secession's influence, he experimented with pointillism in the style of Théo van Rysselberghe. His work as a designer was firmly within the Secession's tradition. He was influenced by Theodor von Hörmann.
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1865
Anton Nowak born at Maribor.
1932
Anton Nowak died at Brno.
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- 1.Friedrich von Boetticher. Nowak, Anton. 2. 1. 166. 1898.
- 2.Ordentliche Mitglieder. Ver Sacrum. 1. 28. 1898.
- 3.Verzeichnis: der auf der 1. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs angekauften Kunstwerke. Ver Sacrum. 8. 37. August 1898.
- 4.Mittheilungen der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler. Ver Sacrum. 5. 30. May 1899.
- 5.Mitteilungen. Ver Sacrum. 14. 218. 1902.
- 6.O Matulla. Anton Nowak. 7. 160. 1976.
- 7.Auctionata. Painting "Großer Pyhrgas" by Anton Nowak, Austria, around 1900.
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