Arnold Jacob Clementschitsch - Artist Info

About Arnold Jacob Clementschitsch

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    Arnold Jacob Clementschitsch was a landscape and genre painter, graphic artist and writer. He is revered as one of the leading representatives of classical modernism in Austria.

    In 1908, at 21, Clementschitsch gave up an early career in banking to begin formal art studies at the Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt (Vienna Graphic College and Research Institute). His teachers were Hubert Landa, Erwin Puchinger and Josef Eugen Hörwarter. In 1909, Clementschitsch continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule (Vienna School of Arts & Crafts) as a student of Alois Delug and Bertholt Löffler. From 1911 to 1915, he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts*, atten...

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