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Hans Fronius

Hans Fronius (1903 - 1988) was active/lived in Austria.  Hans Fronius is known for Abstract expressionist figure, landscape, cityscape painting, drawing, printmaking.

Hans Fronius (12 September 1903 - 21 March 1988) was an Austrian painter and illustrator.
He was born in Sarajevo, which was then a territory of Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Hercegovina). His father was descended from an old, aristocratic Transylvanian Saxon family. As a young boy, he witnessed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, an event that would later form the subject of his book, Attentat in Sarajevo

After the First World War, Fronius's family moved to Graz in Austria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 1930 to 1960, he taught art and projective geometry at a grammar school in Fürstenfeld, Styria. His leftist sympathies put his teaching position in jeopardy after the Anschluss, and in 1943 he was drafted into the German army.
Illustration of Franz Kafka by Hans Fronius

The art historian Otto Benesch called Fronius "the most significant Austrian illustrator since Alfred Kubin." His work is considered an example of 'E   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1836 characters.]  Artist bio

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