Franz Koenig-Hollerwöger
Franz König-Hollerwöger (born December 1, 1914 in Gmunden ; † November 6, 1995 there ) was an Austrian builder , architect , painter , ceramist , art expert and collector .
life and work
Franz König-Hollerwöger was born on December 1, 1914 in Gmunden as the son of Franz and Maria König-Hollerwöger. The father was a builder and carpenter in the second generation, the mother came from a long-established family of teachers from Laakirchen and was a sister of Karl Eder.
Like his father, Franz König-Hollerwöger graduated from the state trade school in Salzburg and also learned masonry and carpentry in his father's business. As a result, König-Hollerwöger studied architecture at TU Graz. His teacher there was u. a. the Otto Wagner student Wunibald Deininger.
In accordance with his range of interests, König-Hollerwöger also attended courses at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz a . a. about art psychology with Othmar Sterzinger and 'scientific folklore' with Viktor von Geramb and made friends with Hanns Koren , the later cultural politician and founder of the ' Styrian Autumn '. His contact with the Innviertel artists' guild, especially with the painter Hugo von Preen , also had a lasting influence on his artistic career . He later got to know Alfred Kubin personally through him . During this time Franz König-Hollerwöger had increasingly turned to painting and continued to pursue this intensively in the armaments works in Graz-Thondorf despite the war-related forced recruitment. After the war, König-Hollerwöger joined his father’s business, passed the building master’s examination and was able to implement what was already a maxim at the Bauhaus right from the start: architecture as a craft art that basically encompasses all branches of the visual arts. The work of Franz König-Hollerwöger is accordingly multi-layered and ranges from the renovation or redesign and redesign of churches, monasteries, historically valuable secular buildings to innovative new buildings and special projects including urban planning designs. Examples include the work on the following objects in Gmunden and the surrounding area: Church in Seeschloss Ort , the parish church, the Capuchin Church (Capuchin monastery), Carmelite Church (monastery), the churches in Ohlsdorf, Gschwandt and Aurachkirchen ('Roman Church') ), the cemetery of Ohlsdorf, the Landschloss Ort, the (former) Parkhotel on the Schiffslände, the Kössl-Mühle on the Traun, the Hotel Echo ('under the stone'), the (former) 'workshop' Trachten Beurle, the ( former) private house Dr. Brunner (originally Theophil-Hansen-Bau), (former) round pavilion / Steinmetz - company headquarters (near the cemetery), various graves in the cemeteries of Gmunden and Ohlsdorf, significant boathouse (near Gmundner Strandbad) as well as the town hall of Gmunden ('Ceramic Glockenspiel ').
As a collector, König-Hollerwöger had specialized in the 'Alt Gmundner Faience' and 'folkloric' worked on this through relevant publications. In 1964 his book “Alt-Gmundner Fayencen: a craft from the Salzkammergut; (17th - 19th century) ”. In addition, he was also repeatedly active in art education and art education, was an art expert with the status of a court sworn expert and was awarded the professional title of professor for his special services . König-Hollerwöger was a member a. a. the 'Salzburger Landeskunde', cultivated the 'musical folk art' (violin) and was related to it u. a. in contact with Gerlinde Haid . Franz Lipp gave the eulogy for his 70th birthday .
Franz König-Hollerwöger was since 1946 with the painter Lotte König-Hollerwöger, born from Vienna, born. Uhlmann, married as an artistically congenial partner. The marriage has eight children.
Web links
- Alt-Gmundner Faience: a craft from the Salzkammergut; (17th – 19th centuries), 1964 * König, Franz Hollerwöger: 1964
- Salzburg regional studies: mortuary tablet and necrologist
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Eder in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Wunibald Deininger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | König-Hollerwöger, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian builder, architect, painter, ceramist, art expert and collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gmunden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1995 |
| Place of death | Gmunden |