Alois Heidel
Alois Heidel (born December 30, 1915 in Vienna ; † November 21, 1990 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .
Life
Alois Heidel completed an apprenticeship as a belt maker and chaser . After he was forced to work as a fitter in an aircraft factory in 1938, he began to study at the Munich Art Academy in 1943. In 1944 he was drafted into the military and was taken prisoner in the south of France.
From 1946 to 1953 he studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Fritz Wotruba . Subsequently, from 1953 to 1969, Heidel created numerous sculptures for the City of Vienna. Many of them are accessible in the then newly created municipal housing in Vienna.
The bronze sculpture of the goat in the Georg-Emmerling-Hof triggered a public debate because it contradicted the contemporaries' view of nature, devoid of any idyll or trivialization. The goat was perceived as emaciated and reminded contemporaries of times of need that had just been overcome, which was irritating in times of reconstruction optimism.
From 1975 Heidel also worked as a restorer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna .
From 1954 he was a member of the Secession.
Awards
- 1962 Prize of the City of Vienna for fine arts for sculpture
- In 1992 the Alois-Heidel-Park was named in Vienna-Strebersdorf
Works
Commissioned art in architecture for the city of Vienna:
- Vienna 2., Obere Donaustraße 95–97: bronze sculpture goat
- Vienna 10., Leebgasse 106 / Van-der-Nüll-Gasse 95: bronze sculpture horse
- Vienna 12., Oswaldgasse 19: plastic made of sheet copper, prismatic figure, built up polyphonically
- Vienna 20., Stromstrasse 2–16: Plastic goose fountain
- Vienna 21., Prager Straße 93–99: bronze sculpture of a pelican
- Vienna 22, Thonetgasse / Andreas Morth way: Steel plate plastic prism figure
- Vienna 23rd, Schlimekgasse 10 / Peterlinigasse: bronze sculpture Ibis
Langenzersdorf Museum
- The Langenzersdorf Museum shows works by Alois Heidel in the permanent exhibition
Web links
- Alois Heidel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Biography Museum Langenzersdorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irene Nierhaus : Kunst-am-Bau in Viennese municipal housing in the fifties, Vienna et al., Böhlau, 1993, p. 180 ff
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Heidel, Alois |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor and restorer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1990 |
Place of death | Vienna |