14 Facts About Ferdinand Andri

Ferdinand Andri's work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Ferdinand Andri served an apprenticeship from 1884 to 1886 with the woodcarver and altar builder Johann Kepplinger in Ottensheim near Linz.

Ferdinand Andri then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1886 to 1893 with Julius Victor Berger, Eduard von Lichtenfels and August Eisenmenger.

Ferdinand Andri took study trips to Italy, France, England and North America.

Ferdinand Andri gained general recognition as a lithographer and sculptor.

Nevertheless, when he was proposed as a teacher for the Vienna Academy in 1914, he was rejected by Archduke Franz Ferdinand Andri, who had no use for modern art trends.

Ferdinand Andri was first sent to Belgrade, where he painted in November and December 1915.

Ferdinand Andri created several poster designs for the benefit of the Children's Relief Fund, the War Invalids Foundation and wartime exhibitions, for which he benefited from his experience as a graphic artist with the Vienna Secession.

In 1918, at the war's end, Ferdinand Andri moved to St Polten; at the same time, he received a teaching position at the Vienna Academy, where he taught until 1939.

From 1939 to 1945, Ferdinand Andri directed a master school for fresco painting at the academy.

Ferdinand Andri was listed on Joseph Goebbels' so-called Gottbegnadeten list as an important painter of the Third Reich.

Ferdinand Andri was an expert advisor for music at the National Socialist German Cultural Association.

Ferdinand Andri was a co-founder of the Austrian Werkbund, which focused on the revival of craftsmanship.

In 1950, Ferdinand Andri gave all the works still in his possession to the city of St Polten, which established a Ferdinand Andri Museum.