Ernst Huber

Ernst Huber was one of the most important representatives of Austrian landscape painting during the interwar period. He also produced several graphic works. He was first educated as a book printer and worked as a typesetter, and then studied at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule. Motifs from Lower Austria, Upper Austria and the Salzkammergut dominated his early work.

After serving in World War I, he mainly created book covers, but was largely self-taught as a painter. He was a member of the Sonderbund and, after World War II, of the Vienna Secession. From 1939-44, on behalf of Nazi General Inspector Fritz Todt, Huber painted the completed motorway sections of the Reichs Autobahn for a planned major traveling exhibition. He also created glass paintings, woodcuts, and painted ceramics, and was an avid collector of folk art. In 1948 he was appointed professor.