Erwin Huber (sculptor)

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Wall sculpture from 1956 on the Rosenschlößl in Graz
St. Aegidius placed in public in front of the Graz Cathedral. As saint and patron saint of the cathedral and the city of Graz. Bronze, 100 cm high. (1997)

Erwin Huber (born May 18, 1929 in Graz ; † April 27, 2006 ibid) was an Austrian sculptor .

Career

Erwin Huber first graduated from the Graz School of Applied Arts with Wilhelm Gösser , Walter Ritter and Alexander Silveri . During his training at the arts and crafts school, the artistic personality Wilhelm Gössler took the talented student Erwin Huber into his studio as a helper who helped him with the sculpting work. After his training he worked in the restoration and sculpture workshop of Peter Neuböck . Only after he had learned the classic work of the sculptor and implemented it with sufficient practice did he begin to devote himself to the modern sculptural empire. The Graz professor and museum director Wilfried Skreiner called it "a sensitive abstraction" that distinguishes Erwin Huber. At the same time, Wilfried Skreiner also recognized expressionist tendencies in Erwin Huber's work. Subsequently, he took part in the summer academy in Salzburg, where he got to know the Italian artist personality Giacomo Manzù . Invited by him, he went to Italy for further training with Giacomo Manzù and thus got to know modernism in Italy and especially the work of Giacomo Manzù as an essential artistic personality in his career and artistic development. Huber had been a freelance artist since 1955 and belonged to the Kunstverein Werkbund .

In his work mainly the human figure is reflected, which he portrayed profane or sacred . One of the main considerations was the woman. In addition, he was also considered an excellent portraitist. As such, he has portrayed important personalities from art and politics and these are publicly displayed. Huber dealt very closely with religious issues. For this he created u. a. the crucifixes for the Styrian Katholikentag 1981 and the Austrian Katholikentag 1983. With these designs and works his development to independent work began and continued successfully for decades.

Awards

Works

Portrait busts u. a.
Church gates (bronze)
Bells (bronze)
  • Bronze decoration of the cathedral bells in Graz
  • Bronze decoration of the bells of the church in Graz-Kroisbach
Sacred and profane sculptures
  • 1956: St. George, parish church St. Georg in Kraubath an der Mur
  • Sacré Cœur in Graz, body (iron) on the high altar
  • Standing Savior (wood) in the expanded Leonhard Church
  • St. Joseph with child (wood) with the Brothers of Mercy in Graz-Eggenberg
  • St. Elisabeth (wood) and Madonna and Child (wood) in the nurses house chapel of the Teutonic Order Hospital in Friesach
  • Baptismal font in the parish church Edelschrott
  • St. Vincent and St. Elisabeth (both wood) in the St. Mary's Church of the Lazarists in Graz
  • Way of the Cross (wooden reliefs) in the chapel of the nursing home of the Brothers of Mercy in Kainbach near Graz
  • St. Pampuri (bronze) Kainbach
  • St. Nikolaus (sandstone) for the Joanneum Park in Graz
  • Tomb for Baron Boineburg (Leonhardfriedhof in Graz)
  • War memorial in Deutsch-Goritz (Sandstein-Pièta)
  • Storchenbrunnen in Bad Tatzmannsdorf (artificial stone)
  • Fountain sculpture for master builder Bittner (Salzburg)
  • Four evangelists (stone) for the new chapel in the Graz boys' seminar
  • Mariazeller Madonna (bronze) in the Vatican
  • Cardinal Stickler (Vatican)
  • Christophorus with Jesusknaben (bronze), Sobother Bundesstrasse (district Deutschlandsberg)
  • Christ (bronze) in Bad Radkersburg (cemetery)
  • Evangelist Johannes (bronze) in Graz-Gries (Johanneskirche)
  • St. Cäcilia (bronze) in Graz (cathedral parish)
  • St. Egidius (bronze) in Graz, Bürgergasse (next to the cathedral)
  • Archangel Gabriel (bronze) in Graz-Mariatrost (stone stairs to the basilica)
  • Evangelist Lukas in Graz-Mariatrost (private property)
  • Evangelist Johannes in Graz-Mariatrost (private property)
  • St. Peter (bronze) St. Peter in Sulmtal
  • Many other bronze sculptures (including Bozetti) and reliefs (religious and profane) in private ownership in Graz-Mariatrost
Terracotta
  • Terracottas (profane and sacred) in private hands
  • Baroque Madonna and Child in Graz-Mariatrost (private)
  • Artificial stone casts of a religious and profane kind (portrait of Robert Stolz in Graz-Mariatrost) in private hands
  • Graphics
  • Graphics (drawings and drafts) in red chalk and fineliner pencil in private hands
  • Sandstone sculpture (dwarf in the manner of Schloss Hellbrunn / Salzburg) in Graz-Mariatrost (private)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mag. Bernd-F. Holasek: Erwin Huber The sculptural work . manu media Verlag schnider, Graz 1999, ISBN 3-902020-04-0 .
  2. ^ Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Styria (excluding Graz). 1982, list of artists
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2006
Place of death Graz