Hans Kastler

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Panther, Rosenheimer Straße / St.-Martin- Straße , Munich
Wheel of Life, 1989, Arabellapark, Munich

Hans Kastler (born July 2, 1931 in Klam , Upper Austria; † August 26, 2016 ) was an Austrian sculptor.

Kastler studied between 1946 and 1949 at the Federal College in Hallein with Hans Baier and from 1951 to 1954 with Fritz Behn . Since 1955 he worked as a freelance sculptor. He lived in Happerg near Bad Tölz, since a stroke in 2014 in a retirement home in Benediktbeuern . In 2009 he set up a 19-piece sculpture park at his former home in Happerg, which the municipality of Eurasburg has promised to maintain until 2115.

Exhibitions

  • 1958: Professional Association of Visual Artists, Munich
  • 1958: Wisnet Gallery, Munich
  • 1958: Galerie Stenzel, Munich
  • 1959: Collective exhibition Friends of the Fine Arts , Munich
  • 1961: Galerie Obpacher, Munich
  • 1965: Gallery a Taos, New Mexico
  • 1965: New Mexico, Fiesta Biennal, Texas
  • 1965: Gallery Apple Tree, Fort Collins, Colorado
  • 1966: Gallery la boetie, New York
  • 1981: Goethe-Institut, Sri Lanka
  • Annual exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst , Munich

Honors

  • 1959: Sponsorship award from the “Friends of Fine Art”, Munich
  • 1964/1965: Wurlitzer Scholarship, New Mexico
  • 1975: Junior Prize "Art and Architecture" for the sculpture at the Oberschleißheim rowing regatta for the XX. 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
  • 1994: Culture Prize of the City of Wolfratshausen
  • 2004: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

  • Chancellor, Hans . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 270-271 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Kastler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice and obituary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 10, 2016
  2. ^ Obituary: Abstract and yet lively , Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 4, 2016 (by Thekla Krausseneck)
personal data
SURNAME Chancellor, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Klam , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH 26th August 2016