Ferdinand Andri

Ferdinand Andri was a painter and graphic artist. He first learned woodcarving in Linz and then studied in Wien and Karlsruhe before he went on extensive tours through Europe and North America. Andri was regarded as an established landscape, genre and portrait painter with a strong penchant for architecture. During World War I he worked as a war painter, mostly in the Yugoslavian and Albanian area. During World War II, he led a master school and taught at the Wien Academy, acting partly as their director, and retiring in 1939. Andri was married to fellow painter Charlotte Hampel.

He submitted his 1936 work for the Art Competitions in Berlin in the category architecture Weiheraum und Stelle des Olympischen Feuers (Hallowing Room and Location for the Olympic Fire) together with his compatriots Paul Meissner and Hubert Matuschek.

In addition to his entry in architecture, Andri submitted the painting Alpinist. It was created as early as 1918 in oil on plywood (96 x 70.5 cm). The work depicts fellow painter Gustav Jahn (1879-1919), who died during a fall while climbing in the Alps.