Georg HOLUB

Georg Holub (1861-1919) was an Austrian painter.

Born in Brno, Holub began his career as a hairdresser before being admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He made his debut as an artist in 1891 at the Vienna Annual Exhibition with a landscape motif of the Sava.

Holub regularly exhibited his works at various exhibitions in Vienna, in particular at the Künstlerhaus Wien, of which he had been a member since 1905. His works were characterized by strict naturalism and mainly depicted motifs from the Eastern Alps, which he captured in oil and watercolour. His well-known works include “Weißenfelsersee”, “Die Rax im Winter”, “Landschaft bei Schrems” and “Hütte auf der Alm Waucha Krain” from 1910. He also created watercolors such as “Sommerlicher Gartenpavillon, davor Korbmöbel” (1894) and “Dorfkirche in einer Voralpenlandschaft”.

Holub’s oeuvre also includes motifs from southern regions, including “Seashore in the Evening”, “A Stony Path in the South” and “Southern Coastal Landscape with a Villa”. His landscape paintings were highly regarded and some of his works were published as postcards (1906).

Georg Holub is regarded as an outstanding landscape painter of his time, who was also a master of other motifs. He is buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 16 A, Row 11, No. 24). His gravestone incorrectly states 1920 as the date of his death.