!!!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. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Egger-Lienz,_Albin|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]