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Wilhelm Legler

Wilhelm Legler also Guglielmo Legler (3 April 1875 – 28 April 1951)[1] was a painter from Pisino, Istria.

Wilhelm Legler
Guglielmo Legler
Wilhelm Legler
Born(1875-04-03)3 April 1875
Pisino, Austria
Died28 April 1951(1951-04-28) (aged 76)
Angern-Stillfried, near Vienna, Austria
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna
Known forPainting
MovementArt Nouveau
Spouse
Margarethe Julie Schindler
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(m. 1900; div. 1917)​
ChildrenWilhelm (Willy) Carl Emil Legler

Biography edit

Wilhelm[2] Legler (also Guglielmo)[3][4] was born in Pisino, Istria,[5] to Wilhelm Legler, an engineer, and Adele Legler-Köhler (Koehler).[6]

On 4 September 1900 he married Margarethe (Greta) Julie Schindler (1881-1942) in Bad Goisern, Austria. After their marriage they moved to Stuttgart.[7] She was the daughter of Emil Jakob Schindler (though there are questions surrounding her paternity) and the sister of Alma Mahler.[8] After Schindler's death, his wife, and Greta's mother, married Carl Moll (with whom she had been previously accused of having an affair).[8] Moll then married Greta to Legler, one of his pupils.[8] It has been also reported that Greta was forced to marry Legler by her mother.[9] The marriage produced a child, Wilhelm (Willy) Carl Emil Legler (1902-1960), an architect.[10][6] After a suicide attempt in December 1911, Margarethe was institutionalized for most of the rest of her life and the couple was divorced in 1917.[11]

Career edit

Legler was chiefly a landscape painter and an engraver.[6][3] He studied from 1897[12] at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Carl Moll[13] and then from 1899 to 1906 in Stuttgart with Robert Poetzelberger, Leopold von Kalckreuth and Adolf Hölzel as well as etching with Alexander Eckener.[12]

From 1906 he worked mainly in Vienna and Linz, later also in Dimburg and Stillfried an der March.[12] From December 1910 to January 1911 he exhibited at the Miethke Gallery, which had become "the primary outlet for the Klimt group".[14] From 1929 he lived and worked mainly in Vienna,[12] where he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus from 1914.[13]

During his time in Stuttgart he made numerous etchings, was artistically influenced by Carl Moll until about 1915, but then turned to landscape painting and mainly painted landscapes of the Marchfeld.[12] His works were exhibited at the Kunstschau Wien 1908 and the 1909 International Art Show in Vienna.[12]

In April 1945, during the Second World War, Legler's house in Vienna's Rainergasse 27 was destroyed by a bomb attack, along with his entire artistic work.[12] In 1957 the Wilhelm-Legler-Gasse in Vienna was named after him.[15]

His works can be found in the Albertina, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere and in the Lower Austria Museum in Sankt Pölten, among others.[12]

Gallery edit

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    Still life with garden flowers, oil on canvas, 1935
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    Interior with Floral Still Life
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    The Mill on the River
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    In Front of the Homestead, oil on canvas, 1937
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    Bathers on the Morava, oil on canvas, 1933
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    Old Danube

References edit

  1. ^ Krug, Wolfgang; Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum (2003). Wachau Bilder aus dem Land der Romantik : aus der Sammlung des Niederösterreichischen Landesmuseums und der Topographischen Sammlung der Niederösterreichischen Landesbibliothek. C. Brandstätter. p. 79.
  2. ^ Frodl, Gerbert; Schloss Halbturn (1987). Kunst in Wien um 1900 die andere Seite : Ausstellung in Schloss Halbturn, 22. Mai bis 26. Oktober 1987. Amt der Bgld. Landesregierung, Abt. XII/I.
  3. ^ a b Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti Volume 18, Part 2. Istituto Giovanni Treccani. 1929. p. 983.
  4. ^ Pica, Vittorio; Del Massa, Aniceto (1928). Atlante dell' incisione moderna. Rinascimento del libro. p. 109.
  5. ^ "Lot No. 131 - Wilhelm Legler". Dorotheum. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023. Pisino 1875-1951 Wien
  6. ^ a b c "Guglielmo Legler (1875-1951)". it.mahlerfoundation.org. Mahler Foundation.
  7. ^ Haste, Cate (2019). Passionate Spirit The Life of Alma Mahler. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 191. ISBN 9781408878347.
  8. ^ a b c Lebrecht, Norman (2010). Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World. Faber & Faber. p. 131. ISBN 9780571260805.
  9. ^ Gorrell ·, Lorraine (2002). Discordant Melody Alexander Zemlinsky, His Songs, and the Second Viennese School. Greenwood Press. p. 247. ISBN 9780313323669.
  10. ^ "Wilhelm (Willy) Carl Emil Legler (1902-1960)". www.mahlerfoundation.org. Mahler Foundation. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  11. ^ short biography of Margarethe Legler-Schindler at mahlerfoudation.org
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h Kunsthandel Hieke. "Wilhelm Legler (1875–1951)". Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  13. ^ a b Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv. "Wilhelm Legler (Maler)". Geschichte Wiki Wien. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  14. ^ Johnson, Julie M. (2012). The Memory Factory The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900. Purdue University Press. pp. 142, 171. ISBN 9781557536136. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  15. ^ Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv. "Wilhelm-Legler-Gasse". Retrieved 25 December 2019.
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