About this website
The works of Albin Egger-Lienz were well received from the beginning, not only by the public but also by art experts and consequently have always been documented and studied. Curt H. Weigelt published the first monograph on the artist as early as 1914. Others followed in 1925 (Giorgio Nicodemi; Josef Soyka) and in 1930 (Heinrich Hammer). In 1977, the painter and art publicist Wilfried Kirschl published the essential monograph with an extensive catalogue raisonné which brought about a reevaluation of Egger-Lienz as a modernist painter of European stature (New Edition in two volumes 1996). Another significant contribution came from the Viennese collector Rudolf Leopold who placed Egger-Lienz next to Klimt and Schiele at the center of his museum. Other extensive collections of the artist can be found at the Museum Schloss Bruck in Lienz and at the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck.
Even with this extensive literature, the exploration of the work of Egger-Lienz is certainly not finished. This website is intended as a continuation of Kirschl’s monograph from 1996 by providing an ongoing, digital catalogue raisonné. If you are in possession of an, to date, unknown work of the artist, we would be delighted if you would contact us regarding it.
3 texts on Egger-Lienz by Carl Kraus
Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926)
Many labels have been attached to Albin Egger-Lienz: late historical painter, peasant painter, regional artist, blood and earth painter … What cannot be overlooked, however, is the fact that Egger, above all else, was continually searching for new forms of expression …
Albin Egger-Lienz – The Nameless
World War I was not only fought with guns, cannons and bombs but also with an unprecedented flood of images … Within this “trench impressionism”, one artist stands out like an erratic rock with his paintings: Albin Egger-Lienz …
Fundamental Life Story
He needs for his work … the entire circle of life: “Love (procreation), the mother, the children, the struggle, the regret and awareness … It is the mind of a painter who, inspired by the symbolist zeitgeist, wants to provide a setting for fundamental questions of existence through powerful images …
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Previously unpublished: Albin Egger-Lienz, „Das Mittagessen“ (Lunch), before 1922
Egger-Lienz created over twenty versions or repetitions of „Das Mittagessen“ (Lunch), the first version dating from 1908. The present painting is listed in the Kirschl catalogue raisonné under M 464, but without an illustration …
Works by Egger-Lienz at MART Rovereto
The exhibition “Giotto and the 20th Century” at MART Rovereto (6.12.2022 – 1.5.2023) will include two works by Albin Egger-Lienz: “Bauer und Bäuerin” (Farmer and Peasant Woman), c. 1920 and “Weihbrunnsprengender Bauer” (Farmer), 1907 …
Anton von Schlechtleitner Collection with paintings by Egger-Lienz at the Bozner Kunstauktionen
The “Anton von Schlechtleitner Collection” will be presented to the public for the first time at the 42nd “Bozner Kunstauktionen” …