Sculpture School Hallein

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The Hallein School of Sculpture is the first vocational school in Austria , it is part of the Technical College in Hallein and belongs to the Art and Design department.

General

The aim of the training is well-founded creative and technical instruction that ends with a final examination. This qualification is legally equivalent to the final apprenticeship examination (journeyman's examination).

The pupils receive their practical training mainly using the materials wood, natural stone, metal, plaster, concrete, plastic and clay. The areas of painting, graphics, font design and media design are also included in the curriculum. In addition to practical and theoretical teaching, general education also takes place.

New sculpture school in Hallein. 2008

history

Beginnings

As early as 1843, negotiations were held between the Hallein salt works and the kk district commissioner regarding a carving course for miners' children who had left school. The founding year of the sculpture school is given as 1871, making the “Hallein Wood Carving School” the first vocational school in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

Cordon house today
Construction site workshop building 1979
New workshop building. 1980

The sculptor Wilhelm Schönhut (appointed in 1870) was the first teacher of the newly founded school, which has developed with many name changes to today's HTBLA Hallein. In 1871, lessons began with 24 students in the Cordon House , today's Adlharthaus in the Burgfried district on the east side of the city bridge. As early as 1873, the head of the school referred to an “... award which the Hallein wood carving school received on the occasion of the Vienna World Exhibition (1873). ... “In 1908 the school moved to a new Art Nouveau building in Davisstrasse, the current location.

School names

Source: Technical schools in Austria

  • 1871: Wood carving school in Hallein
  • 1888: kk technical school for the wood industry in Hallein
  • 1911: Kaiser Franz Josef jubilee technical school for wood and stone processing in Hallein
  • 1918: Federal College for Wood and Stone Processing
  • 1936: Federal trade school in Hallein
  • 1945: Hallein Federal Trade School
  • 1973: Higher Technical College HTBL

Master school sculptor

The HTL Hallein has been offering a preparatory class for the master sculptor's examination since autumn 2015; the master’s school takes two semesters to complete. Successful completion of the master’s school entitles the graduates to take the master’s examination.

Teachers of sculpture 1871–2017

Gilbert & George

Gilbert Prousch is probably the best-known former pupil of the Hallein School of Sculpture, he attended the first class of sculpture in the 1960/61 school year. He achieved world fame as Gilbert & George (conceptual art), he lives and works in London.

Web links

literature

  • Festschrift 125 years of technical schools in Hallein. June 1996.
  • Josef Schermaier: Technical schools in Austria - schools for skilled worker training. The technical schools for individual commercial branches. A contribution to the past and present of the vocational middle school system in Austria. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58651-8 , p. 163 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Moosleitner: Hallein - Portrait of a small town. Hallein 1989, p. 161.
  2. ^ Josef Schermaier: Technical schools in Austria - schools of skilled worker training. The technical schools for individual commercial branches. A contribution to the past and present of the vocational middle school system in Austria. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2009, p. 174
  3. ^ Josef Schermaier: Technical schools in Austria - schools of skilled worker training. The technical schools for individual commercial branches. A contribution to the past and present of the vocational middle school system in Austria. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2009, p. 186 ff.
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