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“Ex Libris Hanny Pirchan”, 1913

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Estate of Emil Pirchan,
Steffan/Pabst Collection,
Zurich
Color lithograph on paper
11.3×7.9 cm

Artists

  • Emil Pirchan

    (Brno 1884–1957 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Emil Pirchan (1884–1957) studied architecture at the class of Otto Wagner (1841–1918) from 1903 to 1906 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently worked primarily as a commercial artist, and from 1919 was among the leading stage designers in the German-speaking world. By his own admission, the universally talented artist created more than 1,500 works of commercial art when he lived in Munich between 1908 and 1918, including some 50 posters, numerous logos, bookplates, poster stamps, designs for packaging, technical illustrations for user manuals, calendar sheets, invitation cards, book illustrations, templates for flyleaves, coloring books for children as well as playing cards. In 1913, he founded a private art school for advertising art in Munich. That same year, he married Johanna Diehl, the daughter of privy councilor Dr. Julius Diehl, the private physician of Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria. The bookplate for “Hanny” (H) was designed by Emil (E) as a confession of love, featuring two arrows in polygonal hearts which adopt the shape of the abbreviated landscape with two castles on hills; the same motif, though in a multicolored version, was used for the cover of their wedding menu card in August 1913.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Emil Pirchan
Title
“Ex Libris Hanny Pirchan”
Date
1913
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Color lithograph on paper
Dimensions
11.3×7.9 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6454, donation Collection Steffan/Pabst
Inventory access
Accession 2019 2020
Keywords

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Emil Pirchan, Zürich (1957);
Dr. Beat Steffan, Zürich (um 2010-2020); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2020). (2)

  1. Bild / Ruhrgebiet vom 22.02.2019: Große Pirchan-Austellung in Essen. Dieser Kunstschatz lag auf dem Dachboden, https://emilpirchan.com/presse/ (Abruf: 16.05.2022)
  2. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Schenkungsvertrag vom 06.02.2020 und Übergabebestätigung vom 10.06.2020

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