Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg is one of the most important representatives of Austrian Expressionist painting after 1918. The end of the First World War saw Schwarz-Waldegg volunteer in Galicia and Italy marked a profound change in his painting style and his turn towards Expressionism. He was a member of the Hagenbund and its president from 1926, and his works were exhibited at home and abroad. He undertook study trips through Austria, but also to Lake Garda, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin and Spain, which left a lasting impression on him and his art. In the course of Austria's annexation to Hitler's Germany, he was expelled from his studio. Until his deportation, Schwarz-Waldegg lived and worked underground before he was picked up by the Gestapo in 1942 and murdered in the Maly Trostinec concentration camp near Minsk. Many of his works are considered lost. In 1968 his works were shown at the Vienna Secession. In 2009, the Jewish Museum Vienna organized a retrospective of the artist.