Hans Franta

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Hans Franta (born June 17, 1893 in Linz , † March 19, 1983 ibid) was an Austrian painter .

He spent many years in the Siberian city of Tomsk , where he began to paint long before studying art.

life and work

Franta graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in Linz in July 1913 and then took part in the autumn exhibition of the Upper Austrian Art Association . At the beginning of 1914 Franta went to Vienna and enrolled at the philosophical faculty, where he mainly attended lectures on art history from well-known professors.

At the beginning of World War I, Franta volunteered and was deployed on the Russian front . In autumn 2014 he was taken prisoner by Russia . The artist stayed in Siberia until 1921 , where he met his future wife Zinajda Nikolaevna Stavrovitch and married in 1918. In Russia, Franta also made the acquaintance of the Russian avant-garde artist David Burljuk , with whom he worked on the first futuristic newspaper in Russia (co-editor was among others Vladimir Mayakovsky ).

In July 1921, the Franta couple returned to Austria , where Franta made contact with artists such as Klemens Brosch . Until 1929 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Professor Karl Sterrer and then taught as a professor for freehand drawing at the City High School Linz Spittelwiese and at the Realgymnasium in Linz. In 1941 he had to do military service again in World War II , but was transported home after a heart attack in 1942 and discharged from military service in 1943 due to illness .

From 1943 to 1957 he taught again as a professor at the secondary school in Linz. He worked intensively with painting and after his retirement went on numerous study trips through Europe and the USA .

His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, including the Neue Galerie in Linz , the Palazzo Grassi in Venice and the Center Pompidou in Paris .

style

Franta's artistic perception was shaped both by his personal view of reality and by his long stay in Siberia. In addition, art movements such as Impressionism and Art Nouveau were included in his work. In the pastel technique he preferred, as well as in his drawings, his thematic focuses, namely landscape and architecture , which he reduces in his works to the most essential structural elements of surface, line, light and shadow. Through the dominant use of color, he achieves a condensation of mood values ​​and thus proves himself to be a committed observer, whose work, in addition to aesthetic interest, is characterized by personal experiences and intense sympathy.

Exhibitions

In the course of his life, Franta was involved in a total of 46 documented exhibitions, thirteen of them within the framework of the Upper Austrian Art Association between 1913 and 1937, others in cooperation with the Upper Austrian Professional Association, the Upper Danube Artists Association and the Upper Austrian Artists Association .

Selected exhibitions:

  • 2011: Hans Franta - Siberia. Nordico (comprehensive retrospective).
  • 2003: Hans Franta. Pastels, Theo Blaickner. Sculptures. Gallery Lehner Linz.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Franta: The Russian from the Linz Römerberg. In: Upper Austrian news. March 4, 2011, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Radauer 2011, p. 106.
  3. ↑ Radauer 2011, pp. 107-108.
  4. ↑ Radauer 2011, p. 106.
  5. ↑ Tandem tour through the Hans Franta exhibition in the Nordico. In: Web presence of the city of Linz. March 25, 2011, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ exhibition "HANS FRANTA - Siberia". In: Web presence of the city of Linz. March 3, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2020 (press kit for the exhibition at Nordico 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Franta, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1983
Place of death Linz