Hans Albrecht von Harrach

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Hans Albrecht Graf von Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen (born February 11, 1873 in Florence , † October 22, 1963 in Hohenried, community of Brunnen ) was a German sculptor .

family

Hans Albrecht von Harrach was the son of the history painter Ferdinand von Harrach and the Salonière Helene born. Countess Pourtalès (1849-1940). On his father's side, he came from the old noble family Harrach , which belonged to the Austrian nobility, and on his mother's side, the Huguenot family Pourtalès, who fled from France to Neuchâtel in Switzerland after the edict of Nantes was repealed and ennobled by Frederick the Great . The Prussian diplomat Count Albert von Pourtalès was his grandfather.

Hans Albrecht von Harrach had been married to Helene Countess Arco- Zinneberg, a sister of the writer Mechtilde Lichnowsky , since 1899 . They had five daughters.

Life

Hans Albrecht von Harrach spent his childhood at his father's castle Tiefhartmannsdorf in Silesia and at Oberhofen Castle, his mother's castle on Lake Thun . At the age of twelve he started school in Pforta . After their visit, he studied at the Academy of Neuchâtel , the University of Bonn and after Easter 1895, the University of Munich , first law . In 1893 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . He turned increasingly to painting and went to Rome , where he learned to paint. He then continued his art studies in Munich , where he worked with Otto Greiner and Simon Hollósy , among others . There was one of his classmates there, Georg Kolbe , whose sponsor he became. After a year he went to Paris to continue his art studies for two years . There he attended the Académie Julian and the Académie Carmen of James McNeill Whistler .

After studying art, Harrach went to Florence , where he lived in Marignolle's Villa Medici . There he created a bronze bust of Countess H. as one of his first sculptural works and four children's busts in marble. He opened a studio in Berlin . The First World War abruptly interrupted his artistic work on one large figure and several busts. As Rittmeister of the reserve in the Hussar Regiment "King Wilhelm I" (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 , he initially fought at the front. In 1915 he became head of the German press office at the General Government of Belgium in Brussels . In this function he influenced the Flemish politics significantly. In the last year of the war he commanded an infantry battalion on the Verdun front and was a cavalry leader in a major combat division. At the end of the war, he led his squadron back to Hamburg and demobilized them there.

In Munich he had a house built by the architect Oswald Bieber , which he had lived in since 1925. There he created, among other things, the bronze statue Reife , a garden statue made of limestone and a memorial plaque for a fallen officer.

Von Harrach was a member of the PAN cooperative and the German Association of Artists .

Works

  • Child bust, (marble)
  • Bronze bust of Countess H. , (life-size)
  • Memorial plaque for a fallen officer
  • Maturity , (bronze)
  • Garden figure, (limestone)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Fliessbach:  Lichnowsky, Mechtilde, née Countess von Arco-Zinneberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 445 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 19 , p. 671.
  3. ↑ Hymns to the Night - Kolbe's early work as a painter and draftsman, February 4 - June 3, 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at georg-kolbe-museum.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.georg-kolbe-museum.de
  4. ↑ Galerie Ludorff, Georg Kolbe, “Sitzende”, 1926 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on cofaa.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cofaa.de
  5. ^ A b Harry Graf Kessler : Das Tagebuch, 1880–1937. Edited by Ulrich Ott, Hans-Ulrich Simon, Werner Volke, Bernhard Zeller, Volume 6, p. 811.
  6. ↑ Harry Graf Kessler: Das Tagebuch, 1880-1937. Volume 6, p. 391.
personal data
SURNAME Harrach, Hans Albrecht von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen, Hans Albrecht Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1963
Place of death Fountain (bavaria)