Giselbert Hoke

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Giselbert Hoke (born September 12, 1927 in Warnsdorf , Czechoslovakia , † April 18, 2015 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian artist . His fields of work were paintings in the form of frescoes , watercolors as well as lithographs and glass work .

Life

Hoke was born as the second of six children in Warnsdorf in northern Bohemia. He became interested in the blacksmith's trade from an early age . During the Second World War, however, he lost his right arm when he was just 17. After the war, he graduated from high school in Klagenfurt ( Carinthia ) in 1946 and went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Robin Christian Andersen and Herbert Boeckl .

Listed wall fresco "Wall of the Plaintiffs" at Klagenfurt Central Station
One of the two wall paintings in the Vienna State Opera

In 1950 he received first prize in the artistic competition for the design of the now listed wall frescoes in the hall of the then newly built Klagenfurt main station , each 22 meters wide and 5 meters high. The east-facing “wall of the plaintiffs” and the west-facing “wall of the accused” show themselves in the design language of Pablo Picasso . However, the population of Klagenfurt was not very impressed by modern art: After its completion in 1956, protests broke out: the conservative citizens demanded that the work of art be destroyed. Hoke retired to Vienna . In 1953/54 he lived and worked in Paris on a grant from the French state .

From 1954 to 1985 he was married to Margarethe Stolz-Hoke , a daughter of the painter Rudolf Stolz , who then lived as a landscape and portrait painter in Carinthia until her death in 2018. With her he had a daughter Karma and three sons Edmund , Thomas and Armin Guerino .

In 1959 Giselbert Hoke was awarded first prize in the competition for six frescos for the Catholic Teachers' Training College in Eisenstadt, which is now the high school of the Eisenstadt Wolfgarten diocese . The design from 1949/1951 was carried out in 1954/1956: they extend over the entire room height of 2.9 meters and, depending on the wall surface, a width between 4 and 5.5 meters. In 2009 they were restored by his daughter Karma Eder and placed under monument protection.

Saager Castle, Grafenstein, Klagenfurt-Land

In 1962 he returned to Carinthia and bought Saager Castle , which he restored from 1969 to 1973. Also in 1962 his first painting exhibition took place in the Galerie 61 in Klagenfurt.

In 1974 Hoke was appointed professor of artistic design at the Faculty of Architecture at the Graz University of Technology . In the following years he built the Institute for Artistic Design (today: Institute for Contemporary Art) at Rein Abbey and headed it for 20 years. From 1974 to 1976 he dedicated himself to the construction of the workshop next to Saager Castle with workshops for enamel and glass work. From 1982 to 1984 and 1987 he was a course instructor at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg .

Giselbert Hoke moved to Peru several times since 1974 . Since 1980 he has mainly devoted himself to the subjects of Tuscany , inner Spain and his Werkhaus Saager; Study trips took him to North and South America and the Far East .

Giselbert Hoke lived and worked in the so-called "Werkhaus" next to Saager Castle in Grafenstein until his death .

Works

Hoke's artistic work unfolded between the two poles of picture painting and work in architecture. His architecture-related works include wall paintings (frescoes), glass walls (stained glass windows), and enamel walls. Parallel to the work on the walls (glass and enamel walls were made in the own workshops in the Saager workshop), the pictures of seated women were created in the studio based on models and nudes. The woman as the central theme in Hoke's painting was replaced by the theme of landscape in the 1990s. Landscape watercolors (gouaches) were created while traveling, especially during his stays in Tuscany, Spain and Peru. In the mid-1960s and early 1980s, Hoke created large-format wooden panel paintings in which he developed a monumental type of figure, but also incorporated set pieces of landscape in a heavy, bright color. His “NADA” pictures, which were created after 2003, are to a certain extent a continuation of these monumental creations, whereby the “Nada” works confront us as “completely non-representational and nameless pictures”. The tapestries represent a link between the two areas of work, pictorial painting and works in connection with architecture. On the one hand they are based on a painted design / cardboard, on the other hand they correspond in their shape and form to the architecture.

proof

  1. ↑ The painter Giselbert Hoke is dead
  2. ^ Margarethe Stolz-Hoke: Monograph . Heyn publishing house, Klagenfurt 2006.
  3. ↑ Margarethe Stolz Hoke: Margarethe Stolz Hoke. In: hoke.at. Verlag Johannes Heyn , pp. 43 & 45 , accessed on April 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ cf. Wieland Schmied, Giselbert Hoke, An Austrian in Europe, Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1994, p. 22
  5. ↑ Wieland Schmied (ed.), Hoke Giselbert, Nada, Klagenfurt: Verlag Johannes Heyn, 2006, p. 9
  6. ↑ The stained glass window. In: Church of the Holy Sepulcher St. Bartholomew. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .

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SURNAME Hoke, Giselbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Warnsdorf , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2015
Place of death Klagenfurt