Anton Kolig

Madonna with Child (1927-29), Fresco, Nötsch im Gailtal, Carinthia

Anton Kolig (1 July 1886 in Neutitschein – 17 May 1950 in Nötsch im Gailtal) was an Austrian expressionist painter.

Biography

Anton Kolig was the son of salon artist Ferdinant Kolig. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts with Oscar Kokoschka in 1904-1907, then from 1907 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the guidance of Heinrich Lefler and Alois Delug.

In 1911, the work presented by him at the exhibition attracted the attention of specialists who awarded Kolig a scholarship and organized a trip to France. After the outbreak of war, the artist returned to Austria.

During the First World War, starting in 1916, he was in military service, worked as a military artist in Vienna.

He was a teacher, a professor in Stuttgart from 1928 to 1943. In 1944, as a result of the bombing, he was seriously injured. He spent the last years of his life in Nötsch im Gailtal).

See also

Portrait of the Schaukal Family, 1911, (Oil on canvas,160 cm × 160 cm), Leopold Collection II, Vienna

• Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900

Further reading

• Edwin Lachnit. "Kolig, Anton." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 9, 2012; subscription required).
• Milesi: "Kolig Anton". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 80 f. (Direct links to "p. 80", "p. 81")
• Wilhelm Baum (2004). "Anton Kolig". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 23. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 837–841. ISBN 3-88309-155-3.

External links

• Media related to Anton Kolig at Wikimedia Commons
• Entry for Anton Kolig on the Union List of Artist Names
• Literature by and about Anton Kolig in the German National Library catalogue