Artur Nikodem
Trient 1870 - 1940 InnsbruckArtur Nikodem was born in Trento in 1870. He was discharged from military service at his own request in 1890 and returned to his parents in Trento. There he started working at the post office in 1891. In 1893 he moved to Merano and his first artistic activities can be traced to this date. He joined the “Meraner Künstlerbund” and his pictures were regularly on display at the group’s exhibitions. In 1908 he moved to Innsbruck with his family where he stayed until the end of his life.
Nikodem’s œuvre is an important element of Tirolean modern art during the inter-war period and, although it is greatly influenced by Munich's art trends, it is also indebted to the tradition of Tirolean landscape painting. Although Artur Nikodem was one of the most successful and most reputable Tirolean artists of the ’twenties, his art was labeled as “degenerate” by the Nazis and after the Anschluss of Austria with the German Reich the artist lived very reclusively without any opportunity to display his works.
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Starry Night 1923 Birch in the Twilight in the Wind 1922 Birches with Sunflowers 1921 -
Hay Carrier Mountain Life-Work 1926 Portrait 1920 Shadeless Woman after 1926 -
At the Goldenen Horn 1918 Autumn Landscape 1936 Sailing Boat 1919/20 -
Portrait of a young dark-haired Woman (Käthe Spiehs) around 1925 Entry to Martelltal 1909 Sailing Boat around 1929