Who is Adalbert Pilch?

Adalbert Pilch (16 February 1917 in Vienna, Austria – 10 December 2004 in Tulln) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

The works of Adalbert Pilch swell paintings, drawings and illustrations. He became competently known for designing postage stamps.

In 1937, after graduating from school, Pilch took taking place studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class of Wilhelm Dachauer, with whom he was close friends until his death. From 1940 to 1945 he was enlisted and was at first deployed to Russia. Later he was sent to Lapland, Italy, Greece, and Yugoslavia as a painter for the German accomplishment museums. He married in 1942.

In 1945, after the fall of the Second World War, Pilch started illustrating newspapers and was consulted for collaboration on textbooks and murals. He created greater than 4,000 illustrations for children’s and minor adult’s books and textbooks. Secondary, he worked upon the appraisal of outdated farmhouses, hammer mills, mills, and proverb mills by order of the Federal Museum of Lower Austria. He portrayed former and acting Federal Presidents of Austria, as skillfully as Presidents of the National Council, Traffic Ministers, and Director Generals of the postal service. He devised 200 drawings for the War Museum at Vienna.

From 1950 upon he was a devotee of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. In 1953 he expected public attention due to a special exhibition of nearly 50 of his works, while in 1956 he got the first order for designing Austrian stamps.

His “Hunting Series” (1959), the Europe Stamp (1960), the series “Olympia 1963” and “UPU 1964”, as well as the commemorative stamp “Die Kunst der Donauschule” (The Art of the Danube School; 1965) got international acknowledgment. During his life, Pilch expected 318 stamps for the Austrian post, 30 for the Principality of Liechtenstein and one stamp for Israel. The stamp he created in 1965, “Die Kunst der Donauschule”, was elected the “most beautiful stamp of the world”.

In 1968 Pilch moved to Mauerbach close Vienna. In 1970 he was promoted to Professor. He displayed his opus at several exhibitions until 2000. Pilch spent his last year of dynamism in the nursing home Theresiaheim in Tulln.