22 Works, September 10th. is Rudolf Jettmar’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #200
Sep 11, 2021
Dragons and Monsters (Fight with the Monster), c. 1902
Oil on canvas
height 67.5 cm, width 124 cm
National Gallery in Prague
Rudolf Jettmar (10 September 1869, Tarnów — 21 April 1939, Vienna); Austrian painter and printmaker was born in 1869 in Zawodzie near Tarnów, Galicia. Jettmar studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and worked as a professor at this institution from 1910 until his retirement in 1936. In 1929 he succeeded Ferdinand Schmutzer as master of the masterclass for graphics. Jettmar also taught from 1898 at the Frauenkunstschule, the later Viennese women’s academy…