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Franz August Sedlacek was an Austrian painter and graphic artist who belonged to the tradition known as “New Objectivity” (“neue Sachlichkeit”), an artistic movement similar to Magical Realism. At the end of World War II he “disappeared” as a soldier of the Wehrmacht somewhere in Poland.
... one of the most important Austrian artists of the interwar period. He was born on Jan. 21, 1891 in Breslau/Wroclaw but grew up in Linz where the family moved to in 1897. Even as a young school boy Sedlacek was creating humorous drawings and cartoons. In 1911 Sedlacek went to Vienna to study chemistry at the Technical University. A self-taught painter, he continued his art and by 1913 founded MAERZ, a Linz artist’ association together with Clement and Franz Brosch, Anton Lutz, Hans Pollack and Heinz Bitzan. Sedlacek’s university studies were interrupted by World War I. He was sent to Galicia and the Isonzo Front. After his early years as a graphic artist and caricaturist, in the 1920’s Sedlacek concentrated on painting in oil.
In 1920 he participated in a group exhibition at the 57th Exhibition of the Vienna Secession. In the same decade he began his long career as a curator at the Technical Museum Vienna and started a family. He married Maria Albrecht in 1925 and 1928 are their 2 daughters were born.
Exhibitions and important contacts followed: he participated in the Austrian Art Exhibition 1900-1924 at the Vienna Künstlerhaus (1924); became a full member of the Vienna Secession (1927); won a gold medal for painting at the World Exhibition, Barcelona (1929); and, together with Herbert Ploberger and Paul Ikrath, participates in the exhibition Romanticism and New Objectivity in Upper Austria in the Upper Austrian Museum in Linz. He began an important friendship with Herbert Reyl-Hanisch who in 1930, painted a portrait of Sedlacek’s wife. More at http://www.graphicine.com/franz-sedlacek-new-objectivity/ undefined