Hans Krenn

Hans Krenn (born January 18, 1932 in Innsbruck , Tyrol , † June 16, 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian artist. From an artistic point of view, it can be classified in the context of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

Career

Hans Krenn was born in Innsbruck in 1932, graduated from high school in 1952 and, from 1954, studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After graduating in 1957, he traveled to Scandinavia and stayed in Nairobi . After an assistantship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , Krenn returned to Austria in 1962 . From 1970 to 1971 he was appointed professor for painting and printmaking at the Technological University of Florida / Orlando. In 1973 he bought a farmhouse in the Waldviertel (Frankenreith near Horn), which served as a second home and studio. From 1978 he was a teacher at the Camillo Sitte Lehranstalt HTBLuVA WIEN III. Until 2007 he made small-format works (mixed media) and small sculptures. Hans Krenn died shortly after a trip to Asia in June 2007 and was buried at the Neustift cemetery in Vienna. His son Florian Krenn took over the administration of the artistic estate.

Prizes and awards

1971 1st prize from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art, Innsbruck

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1965 Galerie Ernst Fuchs , Vienna
• 1967 Gallery Peithner-Lichtfels, Vienna
• 1969 Tobies & Silex Gallery, Cologne
• 1970 Gallery Tams, Munich
• 1970 Künstlerhaus-Galerie, Vienna
• 1970 New Gallery of the City of Linz Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz
• 1971 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami , Florida
• 1971 Gallery Krinzinger, Innsbruck
• 1971 Gallery 10, Manfred Scheer, Vienna
• 1972 Brockstedt Gallery, Hamburg

Works

image	title	year	Size / material	Exhibition / collection / owner
	The grandfather and the mushroom	1963	120 × 75 cm, oil on canvas	most recently Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels
	The empty plate	1968	140 × 80 cm, oil on canvas	Carl Laszlo, Basel
	Don't look my son	1969	140 × 80 cm, oil on canvas	Carl Laszlo
	Pencil drawing without title	2000	20 × 8 cm, pencil on paper	Agnes Krenn, Styria
	Man And Woman	2002	25 × 7 cm, colored linocut print	Veit Krenn, Trier
	It would be nice in Thailand	2001	35 × 25 cm, collage	Veit Krenn, Trier
	Silver ring	1974	25 × 35 × 10 mm, silver	Florian Krenn, Vienna
	The double giraffe	1973	35 × 25 cm, etching	Florian Krenn, Vienna
	The vain desire for a goal	1965	135 × 75 cm, etching	Agnes Krenn, Styria
	Al too fast the little ones grow	1970	50 × 65 cm, screen print	www.entARTica.eu, Zaandam - The Netherlands
	Snake mother	1970?	53 × 37.5 cm, screen print	www.entARTica.eu, Zaandam - The Netherlands

Web links

• Hans Krenn in the Vanic Gallery, Vienna