Background
Andreas Untersberger first worked under his father.
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Andreas Untersberger
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From 1895 to 1899 Untersberger studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he presumably became schooled in the style of the Jugendstil.
Career
He created hundreds of illustrations for Catholic children"s books and holy cards. At the age of 16 he was assisting him in the building of an altar in Knittelfeld. Josef Untersberger worked in the Neo-Romanic style.
He distinguished himself in a local art exhibit in Austria.
Began work in Munich, Germany, in various workshops. And was noted as having painted three paintings in Odrovice, modern day Czechoslovakian.
By the turn of the century, Jugendstil became all the rage, and the church no longer gave out big assignments. From 1901 to 1905 he traveled back and forth between Munich and Vienna, until he settled for good in Munich in 1905.
He joined artists" societies, locally in Munich and nationally in Berlin, and garnered good reviews of his work, including some non-religious paintings which were on exhibition in the Glasspalast.
In 1932, his work was part of the exhibition in the Deutsches Museum. In the first two decades of the twentieth century Untersberger illustrated many children"s books, many of them religious, including books used in Catholic education. He made more than 400 illustrations for holy cards, which, until the press was secularized in 1980, were reprinted again and again.
