Alfred Offner (Austrian, 1879–1937)
Alfred Offner (Austrian, 1879–1937)
Alfred Offner (Austrian, 1879–1937)
Alfred Offner
Austrian, 1879–1937
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Alfred Offner was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and poster artist.
He received his first art lessons in Chernivtsi from the painter Hugo Zonka. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and from April 21, 1902 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich in the painting school of Ludwig von Herterich. He was a member of the Society of Friends of Art in Chernivtsi. From 1905 to 1912 he took part in the Chernivtsi art exhibitions. In Chernivtsi he created a triptych in the stairwell of the medical faculty and a stained glass window "Bear Hunt" in the historical faculty of the Chernivtsi University. He also created frescos in the German House in Chernivtsi. From 1912 he was director of the Chernivtsi Art School. From 1907 to 1923 he was a member of the Vienna Secession.
After the outbreak of the First World War he left Chernivtsi and moved to Vienna and Berlin. He later lived in Pilsen , Tábor and Cracow .
During the Second World War Offner had to seek refuge from persecution because of his Jewish descent and found it in the castle of the Coudenhove-Kalergi family in Poběžovice (German Ronsperg) in western Bohemia. Unrecognized, he continued to paint. After the war he stayed in Poběžovice, where he died of tuberculosis. He was buried as a Catholic in the parish cemetery of St. Joseph in Poběžovice.