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Born the son of a gilder and initially apprenticed to a wood carver, Ferdinand Andri remained a particularly versatile artist throughout his life. From 1884 to 1886, Andri trained as a carver with the altar maker Kepplinger before attending the Staatsgewerbeschule (state trade school) in Innsbruck for another two years. He took courses in painting, sculpture, carving and cabinetmaking before studying drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1888 to 1893. In the following years he travelled, studied and worked in Germany, Italy, Austria, Paris and London. In 1902 he finally settled in Vienna. From 1899 onwards, there were contacts with the Vienna Secession, of which Andri was a member until 1909 and whose president he was in 1905/07. The reputation he enjoyed at this time is reflected in the commission to design the Austrian pavilion for the 1904 World's Fair, for which he spent some time as an exhibition commissioner in the USA. From 1920, Andri led a class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; He was its vice-rector from 1923-1926 and 1931-33. This period also marked the beginning of his commitment to the revival of fresco painting; from 1939 he was an honorary professor at the Academy of Fine Arts as head of the master school for fresco painting - for which he decided not to retire. Andri's art was deeply influenced by his father's workshop and his apprenticeship in carving. His oeuvre shows a great interest in closeness to nature and rusticity, mountain landscapes, farmers, soldiers, views of nature and genre motifs, which he - under the influence of Art Nouveau - transformed with secessionist-decorative stylistic principles and which, in the following years, had a tendency towards the heroic. In addition to a painterly oeuvre, Ferdinand Andri also created prints, frescoes, sculptures and building sculptures.
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