Anton Hofer (Designer)

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Anton Hofer (born April 8, 1888 in Bozen ; † February 19, 1979 there ) was a South Tyrolean designer and architect .

After attending the arts and crafts college in Bozen, he studied from 1908 to 1912 at the Vienna arts and crafts school under Kolo Moser . Hofer mainly dealt with textile design and in 1911 he won a competition for a pontifical regalia organized by Klosterneuburg Abbey . Subsequently, Hofer was a member of the Wiener Werkstätte and taught at the youth art school with Franz Cizek . He joined the German Werkbund in 1910 and the Austrian one in 1912 . In 1919 he married the textile artist May Ottawa . In 1921 Hofer returned to his hometown, where he worked as a designer until old age. For example, he designed the 1967 curtain in the Bolzano House of Culture "Walther von der Vogelweide" . Hofer also designed furniture, wallpaper, postage stamps, tiles and posters, including the one for the Etschländer Week in October 1933 with the stylized motif of the Bolzano victory monument . The year before he had joined the Bolzano section of the National Fascist Party .

After the Second World War , Hofer was a founding member of the “ South Tyrolean Artists Association ” (1946) and the “Heimische Werkstätten” (1947) in Bolzano. In the post-war period he increasingly turned to architecture.

literature

  • Vienna around 1900. Art and culture . Vienna: Christian Brandstätter Verlag & Edition 1985. ISBN 3-85447-097-5 , p. 516.
  • Südtiroler Künstlerbund (Ed.): Anton Hofer: a life for artistic design. (= Monographs of South Tyrolean Artists 3). Bolzano: Athesia 1978, ISBN 88-70140229 .
  • Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 104-105 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hofer May. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1 A – H, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1323
  2. ↑ Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , p. 118–119 (with ill.) .
  3. ↑ Alpenzeitung , edition of November 24, 1932, p. 3: “1. List of the new party members of the Fascio of Bolzano ” .

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personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian designer (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1979
Place of death Bolzano