Albin Egger-Lienz was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n painter.

He was born in Dölsach

Dölsach

Dölsach is a municipality in the district of Lienz in Tyrol in Austria....

-Stribach near Lienz

Lienz

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, in what was the county of Tyrol

County of Tyrol

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. As an artist, he had a special preference for rustic genre and historical paintings; under the influence of Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century.-Life:Hodler was born in Berne, the eldest of six children. His father, Jean Hodler, made a meager living as a carpenter; his mother, Marguerite , was from a peasant family...

, Egger-Lienz abstracted his formal language into monumental expressiveness.

He trained first under his father (a church painter), later he studied at the Academy in Munich

Munich

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 where he was influenced by Franz Defregger

Franz Defregger

Franz Defregger was an Austrian artist known mostly for his genre and history paintings....

 and French painter Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France...

. In 1899 he moved to Vienna

Vienna

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. During 1911 and 1912 he was professor at the Weimar School of Fine Arts and he served as war painter during World War I

World War I

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. In 1918, he turned down a professorship at the Vienna Academy and settled in South Tyrol

South Tyrol

South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...

. Egger-Lienz died on 4 November 1926 in St. Justina-Rentsch, Bolzano, Italy.