Franz Pöhacker

Franz Pöhacker (born February 10, 1927 in Graz ) is an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Franz Pöhacker was born in Graz in 1927 and came to Hall in Tirol in 1933 . From 1944 to 1947 he graduated from the Bundesgewerbeschule in Innsbruck with Hans Pontiller and Helmut Rehm and studied from 1950 to 1957 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Santifaller and Fritz Wotruba . Since 1959 he has been working as a freelance sculptor in Hall. From 1972 to 1992 he also taught art education at the Franziskanergymnasium in Hall.

Exhibitions

• Galerie Elefant, Landeck, 1972
• Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum , 2008
• City Museum Hall, Hasegg Castle , 2017
• Rabalderhaus , Schwaz, 2019

Works

Altar wall, Langenhart parish church

• Altar wall with reliefs depicting the life of St. Joseph and St. Francis of Assisi, St. Josef am Wolfersberg Church , Vienna-Penzing (with Heinrich Tahedl )
• Altar relief with scenes from the life of Mary, Langenhart parish church , around 1957
• Bronze plaque for Georg Bucher at the former Gasthof Dollinger, Axams, 1959
• Memorial plaque for Josef Abenthung at the house at Kirchstrasse 4, Götzens, around 1960
• Figure frieze above the entrance, Reithmanngymnasium, Innsbruck, 1965
• Reliefs in the foyer of the Tiroler Landestheater , 1967
• Bronze sculpture Die Bundelte , forecourt of the Prutz power station building, 1966
• Große Erdfrau , Innsbruck University Hospital , 1971
• Signs of Life , Women's and Head Clinic, Innsbruck, 1986
• Redesign of the altar area of ​​the Franciscan Church Schwaz , 1991
• The big crystalline , Congress House Innsbruck , 1995

literature

• Pöhacker, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 604 .
• Christoph Bertsch (Ed.): Art in Tyrol, 20th century: significantly expanded and revised inventory catalog of the collection of the Institute for Art History at the University of Innsbruck including documentation of legacies and bequests in two volumes. Volume 2, Innsbruck 1997, pp. 538–539 ​​( urn: nbn: at: at-ubi: 2-7291 )
• Natascha Trager: Exhibition on the 90th birthday of Franz Pöhacker. meinviertel.at from August 17, 2017

Web links

Commons : Franz Pöhacker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Franz Pöhacker in the Tyrolean weaving museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmuth Oehler: Student Assembly 1965. On the figure frieze by Franz Pöhacker at the Reithmann-Gymnasium. In: Innsbruck informs , No. 10, October 2010, p. 58
2. ^ Edith Schlocker: Franz Pöhacker: Monumental in small format. Tyrolean daily newspaper from December 9, 2019
3. ↑ Entry on "Langenhart Parish Church" on the website of architekturlandschaft.niederösterreich
4. ^ Kronbichler, Wiesauer: Restaurant Bürgerstuben, former Gasthof Dollinger. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 9, 2018 . 
5. ^ Arnold, Wiesauer: Memorial plaque for Joseph Abenthung, portrait relief. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed December 30, 2018 . 
6. ^ Felmayer, Wiesauer: Tiroler Landestheater. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed December 30, 2018 . 
7. ^ Hausmann, Schmid-Pittl: Free sculpture The Bundled. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed December 30, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Fingernail-Grüll, Wiesauer: Franziskanerkirche, Church hl. Francis. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed December 30, 2018 .