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The painter and graphic artist Ernst Schrom attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1919 to 1924 and was a middle school teacher from 1924 to 1941 and again after military service from 1944 to 1947, then a freelance artist. 1964 - 1969 Schrom was exhibition director in the regional association of Lower Austrian art associations. After the Second World War he was a member of the Künstlerhaus (1946 - 1961). 1944 - 1966 and posthumously Schrom had several solo exhibitions; He took part in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad, including in the USA and Japan. He created a large number of Austrian stamps, starting with the series "First Great Austrian Art Exhibition" (1947) and "80 Years of Artists' House" (1948), but also designed 63 stamps for Indonesia in 1948. He won first prize in the Austrian Exlibris Society's ex-libris competition in 1949. Schrom also created sgraffiti on urban residential buildings (for example "Arbeiterin", 21, Jedlesee settlement, 1952; "Representations from Roman times to the 19th century", 19, Döblinger Hauptstraße 87, Nußwaldgasse 26-30; 1955/1956). Honours: Golden Medal of the Künstlerhaus (1954), Prize of the Ministry of Education (1958), Golden Medal of the "Mostra di pittura estemporanea, Santhia" (1967), Golden Medal of the Regional Association of Lower Austrian Art Associations (1968). Schrom died in a car crash on the Westautobahn (West Autobahn A1).
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