Oswald Grill
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Biography
Oswald Grill was born in Vienna in 1878. The artist first studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Carl von Marr and Alexander von Wagner. Back in Vienna, he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus from 1908 and was a corresponding member of the Parisian artists' association "Les Tendances Nouvelles"¹ from 1909, as well as a participant in the famous International Art Exhibition in Rome, which was largely organized by Josef Hofmann and Gustav Klimt in 1911. In that year he received the Small Golden State Medal, followed by numerous other awards. In 1929 Oswald Grill was awarded the title of professor and in 1948 the Golden Laurel of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. As president of the Central Association of Austrian Fine Artists, Oswald Grill was instrumental in improving the economic situation of the artistic profession during the difficult interwar years. As early as 1910, Oswald Grill's family purchased an old farmhouse in Unterach am Attersee, which became the artist's second home and center of life for many decades, in addition to his villa in Vienna. Here he could pursue his love of landscape painting and sailing undisturbed. Oswald Grill succeeded unchallenged, in the best impressionist tradition and with high painterly quality, to capture the magic of that region in naturalistic clear nature moods in the interplay of day and seasons.
The Salzkammergut and especially the region around Lake Attersee with its extraordinary scenic charm was - then as now - a popular destination for summer visitors traveling from Vienna. Painters, writers and composers - for example Gustav Klimt, Arthur Schnitzler or Gustav Mahler - set up their summer quarters at the picturesque lake. Rushing celebrations, musical and poetic performances as well as glamorous sailing regattas rounded off the stay of the metropolitan summer guests. Of course, Gustav Klimt's numerous landscape paintings are unforgotten here. Painted between 1900 and 1916, they marked a milestone in the dawn of international modernity and also served as a source of inspiration for subsequent generations of artists.
¹The artists' association "Les Tendences Nouvelles" included artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Its own publishing house published many groundbreaking writings on contemporary art.
