Biography: Josef Stoitzner
Vienna 1884 - 1951 Bramberg
The artist Josef Stoitzner was born on the 24th of February in 1884 in Vienna. He received his artistic education at the Viennese School of applied arts and later at the Viennese academy of fine arts. In 1905 he started working as a drawing teacher and completed his teaching exam a few years later. In 1916 Stoitzner succeeded Tina Blau at the Viennese Women’s Academy where he would teach landscape painting for the following three years. After several teaching assignments in different schools and academies he eventually was hired by the academy of fine arts, where only 25 years before he studied. Stoitzner was not only a member of the Viennese Secession movement but also of the Vienna Künstlerhaus.
In his oeuvre Stoitzner mainly depicts landscapes and still-lives of picturesque or rural scenes. He also experienced with wood cut techniques and lithography. His detailed paintings are always executed with great care and a unique sense for atmosphere - they lend the depictions a sense of nostalgia, making the audience long for simpler and quieter times.
Josef Stoitzner died on the 9th of July in 1951 on the Austrian countryside.
