Luis Trenker mit Kamera

Künstler*in Sergius Pauser (1896 Wien – 1970 Klosterneuburg)

Object typeGemälde
MediumMixed media on hardboard
Dimensions
55 × 46 cm
SignatureSign. rechts unten: Sergius Pauser
Inventory numberLg 332
Locations Derzeit nicht ausgestellt
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes, Dauerleihgabe im Belvedere, Wien
The portrait of the mountaineer, actor, and director Luis Trenker (1892–1990) amidst a snow-covered landscape seems almost photorealistic. Trenker’s cinematic portrayals of his Alpine homeland were idealized and were promoted and used by the Nazi regime. This portrait by Sergius Pauser was shown in Berlin in 1939 as part of the exhibition Mountains, People, and Economy of the Ostmark and was later acquired by the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. After an Expressionist phase in the 1920s, Pauser devoted himself to the style of New Objectivity. The Vienna Academy appointed him a professor in 1943, but by the fall of 1944, he was classified as “politically unreliable.”