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Feigl-Zellner, Margarete Johanna
Felgel von Farnholz, Oskar
Fellin, Benedetto
Fieglhuber-Gutscher, Marianne
Fischer, Johannes
Fleischmann, Trude
Floch, Josef
Frey, Max
Freyer, Pierre
Frieberger-Brunner, Marie Vera
Fried, Theodor
Friedländer, Friedrich
Friedrich, Ernst
Frohner, Adolf
Fränkel, Karl
Fuchs, Ernst
Fuhrken, Fritz
Funke, Helene
Földes, Imre
Gaertner, Eduard
Gassler, Josef
Geiger, Willi
Geiseler, Hermann
Gergely, Tibor
Gerliczy, Emil von
Gerstenbrand, Alfred
Gerster, Otto Helmut
Giessen, Jan Theodorus
Glück, Anselm
Gratama, Lina
Grewenig, Fritz
Grom-Rottmayer, Hermann
Grossmann, Karl
Grossmann, Rudolf
Grosz, George
Grünseis-Frank, Erna
Gröger, Kurt
Gunsam, Karl Josef
Gurschner, Herbert
Gütersloh, Albert Paris
Hacker, Maria
Hafner, Rudolf
Hagel, Alfred
Hammerstiel, Robert
Hanak, Anton
Harsch, Andreas
Harta, Felix Albrecht
Hassmann, Carl Ludwig
Hauk, Karl
Hauptmann, Josef
Hauser, Carry
Hausner, Rudolf
Heidel, Alois
Helnwein, Gottfried
Herbert Bayer, zugeschrieben
Hertlein, Willi
Hess, Bruno
Hessing, Gustav
Heu, Josef
Heuberger, Helmut
Heubner, Friedrich Leonhard
Hilker, Reinhard
Hiller-Foell, Maria
Hlawa, Stephan
Hoffmann, Josef
Hofmann, Egon
Hofmann, Otto
Hohlt, Otto
Hoke, Giselbert
Hollenstein, Stephanie
Hrdlicka, Alfred
Huber, Ernst
Hutter, Wolfgang
Hänisch, Alois
Höllwarth, Ines
Hölzer-Weineck, Irene
Jaeger, Frederick
Jaenisch, Hans
Jaindl, Othmar
Janda, Hermine von
Janesch, Albert
Jansen, Willem
Janssen, Horst
Jaruska, Wilhelm
Jean Cocteau, zugeschrieben
Georg Merkel was born in 1881 in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lwiw, Ukraine), in poor conditions. First he worked as a painter of decorations, with the help of a friend he studied between 1903 and 1905 at the Academy in Krakow. From 1905 until 1908 and from 1909 until 1914 he lived in Paris, devoting himself to French Classicism and to Paul Cézanne. As a svolunteer in the Austrio-Hungarian Armyduring the Great War, Merkel was injured on the head and went blind. Of course the recovery of his eyesight was very important for him and defining for his art. Between the First and the Second World War Merkel lived in Vienna and was a member of the artist’s association Hagenbund. He had also contact to the painter’s colony in Zinkenbach in Salzburg. In 1938 his art was defamed as “degenerated” by the Nazi Regime and so he emigrated to France. Merkel was interned in Southern France, then lived in Montauban. Since 1945 Merkel was a member of the Viennese Secession and in 1961 the received the prize of the City Vienna. Only in 1972 he came back to Vienna. Georg Merkel was married with the painter Louise Merkel-Romeé (1888–1977). We know about his acquaintance with Elias Canetti, who mentioned Merkel in the 3rd part of his diaries titled “Das Augenspiel” in 1985.
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