Original Painting "Yellow" Egon Weiner, Signed and inscribed 1934 an 1940

Description: Original Painting "Yellow" Egon Weiner, Signed and inscribed. Egon Weiner Born 1906 ViennaNaturalized United StatesDied min 1980's"Yellow" Pastel 24 x 15 1/4 inchesSigned and inscribed upper right:"Vienna February 1934, finished Chicago 1940 Egon Weiner" Egon Weiner (1906 – August 1, 1987) was a Chicago sculptor and longtime professor (1945–1971) at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was known for a 33-foot-tall (10 m) abstract bronze sculpture, Pillar of Fire, which can be found on the grounds of the Chicago Fire Academy on the spot where, legend has it, Mrs. O'Leary's cow knocked over the lantern that started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. EGON WEINER; SCULPTOR, ART INSTITUTE INSTRUCTORKenan HeiseCHICAGO TRIBUNEEgon Weiner, 81, sculptor and professor emeritus of the Art Institute, preached and practiced his theories of art in Chicago after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.His public sculptures, such as ''The Pillar of Fire'' outside the Chicago Fire Academy and ''The Brotherhood Monument'' at Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road, carry the mark of the ageless enthusiast who believed that the emotional perception of the individual is the basis for art.Memorial services for Mr. Weiner, a resident of Evanston, are pending. He died Tuesday in Evanston Hospital.The ebullient sculptor-artist from Vienna was an instructor at the Art Institute from 1945 to 1971. His works included watercolors as well as sculptures in steel, bronze and wood.In 1975, he compiled a book of his lectures, titled ''Art and Human Emotions.'' It presented his certainty that emotional perception alone can open its petals to become the artist`s rose. In a poem at the beginning, he wrote, ''When in springtime, the flowers grow again after a lonesome, dreary winter, we are all happy and I am even happier because I know my mother loved flowers so much. . . . Whenever I see flowers, I meet my mother again.''This optimism comes alive in his works. The memory of his mother is specific. He refers often to it, as when he carved Johnny Appleseed out of the trunk of an apple tree, remembering how his mother had given him apple strudel and fresh apples when he fled to the U.S. in the face of the Nazi takeover.Mr. Weiner`s 33-foot-high, 7-ton abstract ''The Pillar of Fire'' at 558 W. DeKoven St., captured in bronze the upward reach of hope that inspired Chicagoans after the Chicago Fire as well as frighteningly attractive flames. Chicagoans are probably even more familiar with his ''The Brotherhood Monument.'' The two-man, two-woman group has the sinews and features of the city`s immigrants and attempts to represent the togetherness the sculpture envisions for them.His 800-pound ''The Christ'' statue at North Park College on the North Side attempts to get away from the too-common religious message, ''Come unto me to be awed.'' Through its simple lines, it expresses rather the bonds between the human and the divine.His busts include Frank Lloyd Wright (in the Oak Park Library), other Chicago architects such as Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, and novelist Ernest Hemingway. Each attempts its own emotional tone. Wright`s is beauty and sadness; Adler`s, strength; Sullivan`s, poetry; and Hemingway`s, heroism.''We want the emotions in art, the expression of that fire that burns in all of us,'' Mr. Weiner told an audience in 1967 at the American Lutheran Church in Oslo. ''The artist has to show emotions in his art because others don`t. You could do it, but maybe you are afraid. Maybe you want to impress rather than express. Maybe you don`t want to take the risk of being exposed. The artist takes the risk.''Mr. Weiner came to Chicago in 1938 after the German occupation of Austria. His mother was not Jewish but had committed the ''crime'' of having been married for 30 years to a Jew. After her son left, she was picked up by a Nazi truck and that was the last Mr. Weiner ever heard of her.''The Pillar of Fire,'' dedicated Oct. 15, 1961, stands at the spot where the Chicago Fire supposedly began Oct. 8, 1871. Mr. Weiner competed against five other Chicago-area artists for the commission.Among his other noted Chicago-area works is ''Ecce Homo,'' formerly in the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago and now in the Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave. He also crafted the 14-foot bronze statue of St. Paul in front of St. Paul`s Lutheran Church, 10th Avenue and Lake Street, Melrose Park.His wife, Margaret, is a practicing child psychiatrist, who also escaped from Austria. Mr. Weiner also was an accomplished musician.Survivors, besides his wife, include two sons, Peter and Andrew; and four grandchildren.

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