Arthur Paunzen
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Arthur Paunzen was an Austrian
artist.
Vienna
where he studied with Ludwig Koch. He also studied in France
at Académie Julian
under Jean Pierre Laurens and traveled Italy
studying art and architecture which was very common for his time.
Paunzen created a number of works that make bold symbolic attempts to convey music as images. For instance depicting Beethoven’s Eroica
(Third) Symphony as nude horse backed trumpeters in the sky surrounded by clouds flanked by a “stony faced” trumpeter who might very well be death. Also, his series based on Gustav Mahler
's song cycle, the "Song of the Earth
” or the etchings he created for Raskolnikov.
Many of his pieces were collected by the British Museum
, the Stockholm Engraving Collection and the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
In 1938, as Hitler rose to power, Paunzen moved to Great Britain
.
, in his internment diary. He died of severe bronchial pneumonia, exacerbated, according to Gál's account, by neglect on the part of the authorities. He is buried in the Jewish section of Douglas Borough Cemetery, Isle of Man (see www.jewishgen.org/JCR-uk/community/Iom/Isle_of_Man_Cemetery.htm).
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
artist.
Biography
Paunzen was born on the 4th of February in fin de siecleFin de siècle
Fin de siècle is French for "end of the century". The term sometimes encompasses both the closing and onset of an era, as it was felt to be a period of degeneration, but at the same time a period of hope for a new beginning...
Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
where he studied with Ludwig Koch. He also studied in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
at Académie Julian
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...
under Jean Pierre Laurens and traveled Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
studying art and architecture which was very common for his time.
Paunzen created a number of works that make bold symbolic attempts to convey music as images. For instance depicting Beethoven’s Eroica
Eroica
The name Eroica may refer to:*The Eroica Symphony, by Ludwig van Beethoven;*The Eroica Variations for piano, also by Beethoven;*The Eroica Piano Trio, an American chamber ensemble;...
(Third) Symphony as nude horse backed trumpeters in the sky surrounded by clouds flanked by a “stony faced” trumpeter who might very well be death. Also, his series based on Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
's song cycle, the "Song of the Earth
Song of the Earth
Song of the Earth is a novel by Alexander Cordell, first published in 1969. It is the final book of Cordell's "Mortymer Trilogy".Cordell's 3rd book in the lives of the Mortimer family, after Rape of the Fair Country and Hosts of Rebecca. It is a prequel to Rape of the Fair County with the Mortymer...
” or the etchings he created for Raskolnikov.
Many of his pieces were collected by the British Museum
British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
, the Stockholm Engraving Collection and the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
In 1938, as Hitler rose to power, Paunzen moved to Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
.
Later life and death
Arthur Paunzen died on the 9th August 1940, in Central Internment Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man. (In a panic measure, the British authorities interned all German and Austrian citizens in the country, including all those who were Jews fleeing Nazi oppression, in May 1940.) His death is described by his friend and fellow-internee, the composer Hans GálHans Gál
Hans Gál was a composer, teacher and pianist.Gál was born to a Jewish family in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, Niederösterreich, just outside Vienna. He was trained in that city at the New Vienna Conservatory where later he taught for some time. While a student he won the K. und K...
, in his internment diary. He died of severe bronchial pneumonia, exacerbated, according to Gál's account, by neglect on the part of the authorities. He is buried in the Jewish section of Douglas Borough Cemetery, Isle of Man (see www.jewishgen.org/JCR-uk/community/Iom/Isle_of_Man_Cemetery.htm).