Alfred Gerstenbrand

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameAlfred•Gerstenbrand
Used nameAlfred•Gerstenbrand
Other namesF. Redl
Born18 February 1881 in Wien (Vienna), Wien (AUT)
Died7 January 1977 in Melk, Niederösterreich (AUT)
NOC Austria

Biography

Alfred Gerstenbrand was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, writer and cartoonist, sometimes under the pseudonym F. Redl. He studied in Vienna, pursuing a career as a fiscal officer to secure his livelihood, but he also made a career as an artist, and became a professor in 1935. Beginning in 1929 he traveled several times to the USA. He was a member, and for five years vice-president, of the Vienna Secession, as well as a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

During World War II Gerstenbrand worked as an official curator and portraitist of high-ranking officers of the German Wehrmacht, but also sought contact with the Austrian resistance movement. At times, he was one of the so-called “tavern painters” who painted the walls against free consumption. After the war he lived at Lake Wolfgang and worked again mainly as a caricaturist and illustrator, but also as an author. The caricatures of tennis players submitted by Gerstenbrand in 1936 are taken from the book “Tennis einmal anders!” (“Tennis with a Difference”), published in Wien (Vienna) in 1937 with verses by Herman Rademacher.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1936 Summer Olympics Art Competitions AUT Alfred Gerstenbrand
Painting, Drawings And Water Colors, Open (Olympic) AC
Painting, Drawings And Water Colors, Open (Olympic) AC
Painting, Drawings And Water Colors, Open (Olympic) AC
Painting, Drawings And Water Colors, Open (Olympic) AC
1948 Summer Olympics Art Competitions AUT Alfred Gerstenbrand
Painting, Paintings, Open (Olympic) AC