Albert Paris Gütersloh

Albert Paris Gütersloh (born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber; 5 February 1887 – 16 May 1973) was an Austrian painter and writer.

Gütersloh worked as actor, director, and stage designer before he focused on painting in 1921.

As a teacher of Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Ruth Rogers-Altmann, Wolfgang Hutter, Fritz Janschka and Anton Lehmden he is considered one of the largest influences on the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

Albert Paris von Gütersloh's painting Portrait of a Woman is a 1914 painting currently in the Leopold Museum Private Foundation (accession no. lM 81) that was shown at the National Gallery, London, exhibition Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900

Albert Paris von Gütersloh's painting Portrait of a Woman

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Decorations and awards

• 1922 Theodor Fontane Prize for Arts and Letters

• 1926 Reichel Prize (1926)

• 1928 Grand Prix, Paris (1928) for his tapestries

• 1935 National Award for Painting (1935)

• 1937 Grand Prix, Paris (1937)

• 1948 City of Vienna Prize for Painting and Graphics

• 1952 Grand Austrian State Prize for Visual Arts

• 1961 Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature

• 1957 Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna

• 1961 City of Vienna Prize for poetry

• 1967 City of Vienna Prize for Literature

• 1967 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art[1]

• 1987 Austrian commemorative postage stamp to mark his 100th birthday