Anton Hanak

Otto Skall : Anton Hanak, ca.1933

Anton Hanak (born March 22, 1875 in Brno , Austria-Hungary , † January 7, 1934 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Live and act

War memorial in Vienna's central cemetery

Monument to Emil Zuckerkandl in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna

The Monument of Trust ( Güven Anıtı ) in the Ankaran district of Kızılay was completed in 1936. The two 5 meter high bronze figures were created by Anton Hanak. The monument was designed by the architect Clemens Holzmeister .

Hanak studied with Edmund Hellmer at the Vienna Academy and was a member of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte as well as a founding member of the Austrian Werkbund . Hanak was a teacher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and from 1932 professor at the Vienna Academy. Fritz Wotruba , Oskar Icha and Rudolf Reinhart , among others, learned from him .

Almost all of his works have a visionary-symbolic character with a certain proximity to Expressionism , for example The Last Man from 1917 or The Burning Man from 1922.

He created the sculptural jewelry for several buildings by Josef Hoffmann (including Villa Skywa, Landhaus Primavesi, Landhaus Ast) as well as in the 1920s for residential buildings of the municipality of Vienna. Numerous portrait busts and monuments come from him, including the war memorial to Sorrows of Sorrows in Vienna's central cemetery and the bust of Victor Adler for the republic monument .

The last work of art that Hanak worked on were the sculptures for the monumental "Emniyet Monument" in Ankara, for which he had already made the first drafts in 1931 on the mediation of Clemens Holzmeister and which was finally completed by Josef Thorak by 1936.

Anton Hanak died of a heart attack on January 7, 1934 and was buried in an honorary grave in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 5, number 120). In the 14th district of Vienna Penzing was Hanakgasse named after him.

The Langenzersdorf Museum has an area devoted to the work of Hanak and his students.

student

Hanak's students include Fritz Wotruba (between 1926–1928), Angela Stadtherr (1917–1921), Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg (1929–1934), Heinz Leinfellner (1932–1934), Gustav Resatz , Hilde Uray (1923–1924) , Franz Hagenauer , Ilse Pompe-Niederführ , Jakob Adlhart (1921–1923), Josef Asböck, Roland von Bohr (1899–1982), Helene Koenig , Johann Scheibner , Rudolf Scherrer , Franz Budig , Anton Podzimek , Viktor Thoma , Josef Trojer , Franz Xaver Wirth , Kunibert Zinner , Rudolf Reinhart , Margarete Hanusch and Hans Baier .

literature

• Hanak Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 172 f. (Direct links on p. 172 , p. 173 ).
• Hugo Haberfeld : The sculptor Anton Hanak. In: Neues Wiener Journal , Vol. 27, No. 9179, May 23, 1919, pp. 5-6 ( online ).
• Friedrich Grassegger, Wolfgang Krug: Anton Hanak (1875–1934) . Böhlau, Vienna 1997.

Web links

Commons : Anton Hanak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Anton Hanak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Anton Hanak in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Langenzersdorf Museum - Anton Hanak