Anton Kolig

Anton Kolig (1 July 1886 – 17 May 1950) was an Austrian expressionist painter.

Madonna with Child (1927–1929), fresco, Nötsch im Gailtal, Carinthia

Biography

Anton Kolig was born in Neutitschein as the son of salon artist Ferdinant Kolig. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts with Oscar Kokoschka in 1904–1907, then from 1907 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the guidance of Heinrich Lefler and Alois Delug.

In 1911, the work presented by him at the exhibition attracted the attention of specialists who awarded Kolig a scholarship and organized a trip to France. After the outbreak of war, he returned to Austria.

During the First World War, starting in 1916, he was in military service, and worked as a military artist in Vienna.

Kolig was a teacher, a professor in at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, from 1928 to 1943. In 1944, he was seriously injured as a result of Allied bombing in World War II. He spent the last years of his life in Nötsch im Gailtal, where he died on 17 May 1950.

See also

Portrait of the Schaukal Family, 1911, oil on canvas, 160 cm × 160 cm, Leopold Collection II, Vienna

• Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900

Further reading

• Edwin Lachnit. "Kolig, Anton." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 9, 2012; subscription required).
• Milesi: "Kolig Anton". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 80 f. (Direct links to "p. 80", "p. 81")
• Wilhelm Baum (2004). "Anton Kolig". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 23. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 837–841. ISBN 3-88309-155-3.

External links

• Media related to Anton Kolig at Wikimedia Commons
• Entry for Anton Kolig on the Union List of Artist Names
• Literature by and about Anton Kolig in the German National Library catalogue