Adalbert Hock

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Adalbert Wilhelm Hock (born May 19, 1866 in Aschaffenburg , † January 18, 1949 there ) was a German native, portrait and church painter with a focus on the Bavarian Lower Main .

Adalbert Hock: Johannisburg Castle (emergency bank note, Aschaffenburg 1921)

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Adalbert Hock's ancestors moved from Maastricht to the Lower Main after the Thirty Years War. The family lived in a property in Aschaffenburg at Brennofengasse 4, the former town courtyard of the Schmerlenbach Benedictine monastery, diagonally across from the "Heißen Stein". As the second of eleven children, Adalbert Hock was initially to take over his father's painting and tünchner business. Soon, however, he recognized his artistic talent, which went beyond pure craftsmanship, whereupon he attended the commercial advanced training school for decorative painting in Munich from 1883 to 1891 . He then took up studies in Munich at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Karl Raupp until 1894 . From 1893 onwards, he was already painting portraits during his studies. For extensive commissioned work and contributions to state exhibitions, Hock received numerous recognitions and Bavarian state awards.

After training and studying, he settled in Aschaffenburg and married Sophie Theresie Anna Hartmann in 1894, who gave birth to their four children until her untimely death in 1910: Anna Katharina (1895–1970), Katharina-Elisabeth Maria (later Sculptor Kathi Hock , 1896–1979), Rudolf Eugen Heinrich (1901–1945) and Margaretha Sophie (1903–1998). In 1907 he had his family property built at Herrleinstraße 3 in Aschaffenburg.

In Aschaffenburg he is known as a “chronicler with a brush” with his naturalistic painting style. In church art he created altar, ceiling and wall paintings mainly in western Lower Franconia . The note for 50 Pfennig of the Aschaffenburg emergency money after the First World War was designed according to his design of a view of the Aschaffenburg Castle Johannisburg . Over a period of almost 40 years he restored the wall paintings in the Aschaffenburg Pompejanum .

Grave site of the Hock family in the old town cemetery in Aschaffenburg

In January 1949 he died of pneumonia. He found his final resting place in the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery .

In the spring of 1983, Gretl Hock, Adalbert Hock's youngest and last surviving daughter, handed over part of her father's estate with paintings, drawings, photographs, letters, notes, documents and sketchbooks to the Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives in order to provide documentation for his 120th birthday and to enable the scientific processing of his work.

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Honors

literature

  • Heiner Dikreiter : Art and artists in Mainfranken. A contribution to Main Franconian art in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mainfränkische Hefte 18, Würzburg 1954, p. 82 f.
  • Brigitte Schad: A painter's life in pictures and documents. The processing of the Adalbert-Hock legacy in the city and monastery archives as preparation for a Hock memorial exhibition. In: Communications from the Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives, Volume 1 (1983–1986), Issue 6, Aschaffenburg 1986, pp. 191–196
  • Brigitte Schad: Adalbert Hock. Life and work. Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg, Neustadt an der Aisch 2014, ISBN 978-3-924436-28-5
  • Monika Spatz: Stones tell a story. A tour of the old town cemetery in Aschaffenburg. RegioKom, Aschaffenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810660-7-4 , p. 28 f.
  • Renate Welsch: Painted City History. Adalbert Hock on his 120th birthday. In: Communications from the Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives, Volume 1 (1983–1986), Issue 6, Aschaffenburg 1986, pp. 185–190
  • Renate Welsch: Gretl Hock on her 90th birthday. In: Communications from the Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives, Volume 4 (1993–1995), Issue 1, Aschaffenburg 1993, pp. 51–57

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personal data
SURNAME Hock, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hock, Adalbert Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1949
Place of death Aschaffenburg