Wilhelm Legler

Wilhelm Legler also Guglielmo Legler (3 April 1875 – 28 April 1951) was a painter from Pisino, Istria.

Biography Wilhelm Legler (also Guglielmo) was born in Pisino, Istria, to Wilhelm Legler, an engineer, and Adele Legler-Köhler (Koehler).

On 4 September 1900 he married Margarethe (Greta) Julie Schindler (1881-1942) in Bad Goisern, Austria. After their marriage they moved to Stuttgart. She was the daughter of Emil Jakob Schindler (though there are questions surrounding her paternity) and the sister of Alma Mahler. After Schindler's death, his wife, and Greta's mother, married Carl Moll (with whom she had been previously accused of having an affair). The marriage produced a child, Wilhelm (Willy) Carl Emil Legler (1902-1960), an architect.

Career Legler was chiefly a landscape painter and an engraver. He studied from 1897 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Carl Moll and then from 1899 to 1906 in Stuttgart with Robert Poetzelberger, Leopold von Kalckreuth and Adolf Hölzel as well as etching with Alexander Eckener. From 1929 he lived and worked mainly in Vienna,

His works can be found in the Albertina, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere and in the Lower Austria Museum in Sankt Pölten, among others.

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