Biography
Georg Pevetz (b. Ptuj, Slovenia 1873 - d. Vianna, Austria 1971) studied with Rudolf Jettmar (1869-1939) and Rudolf Bacher (1862-1945) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. During the First World War he was a reserve officer and attended Josef Jungwirt's master school from 1921. At the same time he began studying art history at the University of Vienna and did his doctorate: The development of grave sculptures in Lower Austria in the XVI. Century. In 1922 he became a member of the Nötsch painters' circle and stayed in Berlin between 1925 and 1928 in the artists' circle of the 'Romanisches Café' around Max Liebermann, Max Oppenheimer and Emil Orlik. In the first half of the 1930s he lived in Paris, where he made contact with Maurice Vlaminck and an Austrian artists' colony around Viktor Tischler. From 1940 to 1945 he served as a reserve officer and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944. In 1945 an aerial bomb destroyed his studio in Vienna. From 1953 Pevetz lived in Carinthia and later alternately in Vienna and Venice. He was a member of the "Hagenbund" and the Wiener Künstlerhaus. His works include paintings in oil, watercolours, woodcuts, lithographs and stanied-glass windows, for example, at the Votive Church in Vienna.
