Background
Knirr was born in Pantschowa / Pancsova, formerly Empire of Austria, now Pancevo, Serbia and died in Staudach, Bavaria.
Knirr was born in Pantschowa / Pancsova, formerly Empire of Austria, now Pancevo, Serbia and died in Staudach, Bavaria.
Knirr learned painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He was primarily known as a landscape and portrait painter. A more complete article for Heinrich Knirr is located at the German Wikipedia and there is also information about his famous portrait of Hitler at the Bauman Conservation website.
During hard years in Germany in the 1920s he stayed with the Thannhauser family in Munich and Freiburg many times, painting family portraits and portraits of many of Doctor Thannhauser"s patients.
Heinrich Knirr also ran a painting school in Munich. lieutenant was one of the most popular and reputed schools in Germany during the time.
lieutenant attracted students like Paul Klee, Emil Orlik and Vadim Meller.
He was also a member of the Vienna and Munich Secession.
