Karl Friedrich Schwärzler

06.12.1907 Lustenau – 04.01.1990 Lustenau

Born on 6 December 1907 at Lustenau as son of the decoration painter Friedrich Schwärzler and his wife Karolina Schwärzler, née Galler

16 September 1916 - 6 December 1922 attendance of the elementary school at Lustenau

1 October 1922-1923 embroidery draughtsman-apprentice at Hermann brothers’, studio for embroidery design at Lustenau

1923-1925 embroidery draughtsman apprentice with the company of Max Wehrle & Comp. at Lustenau

1 Oktober 1922 - 30 April 1924 attendance of the general commercial school of further education at Lustenau

1926-1929 apprenticeship as house painter in the parental business at Lustenau

10 July 1929 - 10 August 1929 skilled painter with Johann William Füssl in Vienna, Mollardgasse 52

2 November 1929 - l March 1930 trainee in a specialized course for house-painters at the master school in Vienna

21. April 1930 - 12. March 1932 skilled painter with his father at Lustenau

21. September 1932 - 7 October 1932 skilled painter with Ludwig Rohner in Wolfurt

1933-1938 student of Leo Frank (1884-1959) and Ferdinand Lorber (1883-1957) at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna

26. November 1938 marriage with Johanna Otto (*1912 at Vienna-Breitensee)

1938-1944 student of the master class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, taught by Christian Ludwig Martin (1890-1967), Ferdinand Andri (1871-1956), Karl Sterrer (1885-1972) and Carl Fahringer (1874-1952)

11 September 1939 - 15 September of 1942 vocational school teacher at the vocational school in Vienna.

1944 Permission of the “Reichskunstkammer” in Vienna to work as free lance artist, address in Vienna: Böckgasse 2.

1945 active as free lance artist at Hittisau and Lustenau.

1 Dezember 1945 to 1.November of 1946 border crosser with the company “Relief” in Au/Switzerland and St. Gallen/Switzerland

23 March 1947 application for admission into the Society of artists in fine arts of Austria

1 November 1948 until 12 September of 1954 subject teachers at the School for the building crafts in Bregenz

2 June 1953 member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus (house of artists)

1 January 1955 free lance academic painter in Lustenau;

27 May 1983 award of the honour ring of the municipality Lustenau

4 January 1990 death Karl Friedrich Schwärzler at Lustenau