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Gustav Jahn

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style, as was typical in Austria for public contracts. While his sheets still had the effect of paintings and were not really flat and "poster like", their design was intended for indoor advertising at stations, for which the decorative character was in the foreground. 16 of the series have been
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in 1904. The cycle is lost except for one copy. Starting in 1898 as a student, he furnished the illustrations for the catalogs of "Bergsporthaus", a store selling mountaineering equipment owned by ski racer
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Gustav Jahn was born in 1879 in Vienna. His true passion was mountaineering; an interest which dated from a very early age. Starting in 1895, he attended the private art school operated by
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Jahn inspired younger painters to paint like him, for example Stoibner or Emmerich Schaffran. He popularized mountaineering at a time when wider society made fun of rock climbing.
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In 1907, the 28-year-old painter and graphic artist was so well known, that he was awarded a major contract to advertise newly completed Alpine railway lines for the
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Within ten weeks Jahn painted twelve large-format paintings depicting Austrian life and scenery with people in traditional costumes, which won awards at the
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winning over twenty-eight awards during the course of his career. These achievements led to his serving as an instruction officer during
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A climbing route on the North face of the Hochtor is named after him (Jahnweg), as well as on the south face of the
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he won a Kenyon study scholarship in 1904 which he used more for climbing in the Mont Blanc area than painting.
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teaching mountain warfare in the Dolomites, a time during which he also painted on the side.
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In August 1919, he and his climbing partner, Michael Kofler rode the train to
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Kleine Chronik. (…) Tödlicher Touristenabsturz des Malers Gustav Jahn
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From 1900 to 1904, he again had private lessons; this time with the
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north face, the two wanted to climb the northwest ridge of the
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Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins
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for a climbing tour. After successfully climbing the
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He participated in the first ascent of the 8: 402:"Gustav Jahn (1879–1919) – Austrian Posters" 194:, who also was an enthusiastic mountaineer. 131:, and in 1896 at age 16 was admitted at the 16: 209:His favorite mountaineering areas were the 22: 15: 235: 696:Landscape painters from Austria-Hungary 301: 701:Mountain climbers from Austria-Hungary 199:Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways 362: 360: 358: 339:"Gustav Jahn (1879-1919) World Fair" 7: 309: 307: 305: 521:, 22 August 1919, p. 01 (Online at 463:, 21 August 1919, p. 21 (Online at 367:Hintermeier, Hannes (2022-11-10). 107:who lived most of his life in the 14: 542:"Hochtor Nordwand, Jahn - Zimmer" 482:Österreichische Touristen-Zeitung 661:20th-century Hungarian painters 250:Jahn was a committed skier and 656:20th-century Austrian painters 1: 603:. 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Vienna
Großer Ödstein
de
Ennstal Alps
poster artist
mountaineer
Austro-Hungarian Empire

Adolf Kaufmann
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
August Eisenmenger
Alois Delug
Gundel-Prize
genre
Franz Rumpler
Austrian Alpine Club
Rome Prize
World Fair of Saint Louis
Mizzi Langer-Kauba
de
Otto Barth (artist)
Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways
Art Nouveau
Rax
Schneeberg
Gesäuse
Dachstein
Dolomites
Große Bischofsmütze

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