!!!Egger-Lienz, Albin

b. Stribach near Lienz (Tyrol), Jan. 29, 1868, 
d. St. Justina-Rentsch near Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol), Nov. 4, 1926, 
painter, trained first under his father (a church painter), studied at 
the Academy in Munich; influenced by F. von  Defregger and J.-F. 
Millet; 1899 moved to Vienna, 1911/12 professor at the Weimar School 
of Fine Arts, war painter during World War I; turned down a 
professorship at the Vienna Academy in 1918 then settled in South 
Tyrol; special preference for rustic genre and historical paintings; 
under the influence of F. Hodler, E. abstracted his formal language 
into monumental expressiveness. E.'s work focused mainly on World War 
I.

!Literature
K. Sotriffer, A. E.-L., 1983; W. Kirschl, 
A. E.-L., 2 vols., 1996.



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