Hans Liska

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Hans Liska (born November 19, 1907 in Vienna , † December 26, 1983 in Scheßlitz ) was an Austrian draftsman, painter , commercial artist , illustrator and draftsman.

Life

Liska attended business school and then worked as an office assistant. A side income as a piano player enabled him to attend the Vienna School of Applied Arts . There he was a student of Berthold Löffler .

He first worked as a commercial artist in St. Gallen , Switzerland, and then attended the Munich School of Applied Arts with Emil Prätorius and Walther Teutsch .

Funded by Ullstein Verlag , he attended the art college on Steinplatz in Berlin in 1933 as a student of Ferdinand Spiegel . After the outbreak of the Second World War, he was drafted as a soldier in 1939 and photo reporter for a propaganda company and special squadron. His drawings of the various war fronts appeared in many newspapers, including in neutral countries. Two of his sketch books from 1942 (Junkers) and 1944 (Hans Liska) are now sought-after rarities. From 1933 until 1944 he was a press draftsman for the Berliner Illustri (e) rte Zeitung , for example for the special issues for the Olympic Games in 1936 and the propaganda sheet Signal . He also made a drawing of the "largest studio in the world", a huge hall that was built in Baldham near Munich based on a design by Albert Speer for Josef Thorak . This is where the mighty groups of figures for the March field in Nuremberg were to be created. The painting shows how after the living model a (for example a horse) first a clay form, then a four meter high model and finally a colossal horse statue. A second illustration shows the transport of the finished horse figure to the railroad tracks for loading and transport to the destination.

After the end of the war, Liska stayed in Germany. In 1945 his sketchbook from the war , which had been published by Buhrbanck in Berlin in 1944, as well as all foreign-language editions thereof, were placed on the “Procription List for Literature to be Separated” under the number 17549. He married in Scheßlitz near Bamberg in 1948 and used his talent for drawing for the magazines Quick and Hörzu . For years he worked for advertising, especially for the automotive industry at Daimler-Benz , but also for the Cologne companies Ford and Mülhens ( 4711 ). Other clients were, for example, Kaufhof AG , Degussa , Märklin , Quelle , Farbwerke Hoechst , Lederer Bierkontor , Henkell Sektkellerei and Schlenkerla smoked beer brewery (Bamberg). From 1960 his city and landscape books were created with sketches from Salzburg , Bamberg , Cologne , Kulmbach and Franconia .

The Kaiser porcelain company in Bad Staffelstein brought numerous jugs , bowls and mainly wall plates with over 200 Liska motifs from the cities of Königsberg , Danzig , Wroclaw , Berlin , Munich , Aachen , Bamberg etc. on the market.

His predilection for Mozart's operas was reflected in the volume of drawings and pictures, Magic of the Stage , written in 1982 . In an autobiography in the illustrated book Malerisches Kulmbach (1985), Liska confessed to being an admirer of Oskar Kokoschka , Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst .

On December 26, 1983, Hans Liska suffered a heart attack, which he succumbed shortly afterwards.

Works (selection)

His works include magazines, illustrated magazines, books and also sketchbooks with his drawings. He also created numerous illustrations for book covers such as Friedrich Georg's betrayal on the Eastern Front that appeared in 2012.

  • 1936: The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. 2 volumes.
  • 1936: Hans Rudolf Berndorff: The King of Kakikakai An adventurous story from d. South seas. Ullstein, Berlin.
  • 1942: War sketchbook (Luftwaffe). At the suggestion of Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, a reprint came out in 1997.
  • 1944: War sketchbook. Released in 1977 for the 70th birthday of Hans Liska as a limited edition reprint.
  • 1946: Illustrations and cover pictures (“HÖR ZU”).
  • 1950: Title pages and illustrations (catalogs from Märklin )
  • 1951: Daimler-Benz sketchbook. Daimler-Benz, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim (2 versions, history and praise of the automobile).
  • 1953: Race victory in Mexico.
  • 1953: The automobile and fashion. Daimler-Benz, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim (2 versions).
  • 1955: The hearts behind the star. Daimler-Benz, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim.
  • 1956: Chronicle of Mercedes-Benz vehicles and engines.
  • 1956: Ritter's breakouts.
  • 1957: The Unimog calendar.
  • 1957: Driving and experiencing. Texts by Hans Eberhard Friedrich, Daimler-Benz, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim.
  • 1958: Weinheim leather factory. (Commercial register).
  • 1959: In the stream of our time. A selection by Ernst Heß, one-time annual gift from Kaufhof AG. Verlag Mensch und Arbeit, Munich.
  • 1960: Salzburg. Bruckmann, Munich (2 versions).
  • 1968: Five centuries of history of the Lederer brewery - 1468–1968. Lederer-Bräu AG, Nuremberg.
  • 1968: Pictures from Franconia. Texts by Hans Max von Aufsess, Belser, Stuttgart (private printing commissioned by Gustav Schickedanz).
  • 1969: Anniversary catalog “50 years of Classen-Papier KG”.
  • 1970: Over 200 different city motifs (Kaiser porcelain company).
  • 1971: cheerful impressions.
  • 1973: Cologne on the Rhine - you wonderful city. With texts by Theo Rausch, Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, ISBN 3-7857-0132-2 .
  • 1973 to 1985: Bamberg - I like all of them ... a picture book. In several editions, self-published by the Bamberg Junior Circle, ISBN 3-87052-360-3 .
  • 1977: Jakob Lehmann: Appeal to the Humane - on the artistic work and creativity of Hans Liska.
  • 1978: 300 years of Schlenkerla. Bamberg.
  • 1980: Franconia - Festival of the Senses Texts by Jakob Lehmann, Arge Liska Bücher, Bamberg (special edition for the Rotary Club Bamberg).
  • 1982: Jakob Lehmann: Magic of the stage. Arge Liska-Bücher, Bamberg, ISBN 3-87052-351-4 .
  • 1982: Hermann Irmler: 75 years of Hans Liska. Bamberg.
  • 1985: Picturesque Kulmbach. Baumann, Kulmbach, ISBN 3-922091-12-1 .
  • 1993: Sketchbook: Laurels, Smiles, Passions. Mercedes-Benz Museum Archive Edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • 2004: standing still, moving, moving ... Mercedes-Benz Veteranen Club eV Germany, Dortmund.
  • 2008: Jakob Lehmann: Appell ans Humane - On the life and work of Hans Liska on the occasion of his hundredth birthday (= CHW-Schriften. Issue 3). Schulze, Lichtenfels, ISBN 978-3-87735-198-7 .
  • 2008: Christof Vieweg: Hans Liska - sketches, scenes, situations; with Mercedes-Benz all over the world. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-7688-2464-4 .
  • 2008: The Star Painters. Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 978-3-613-02864-7 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972: Hans Liska in the Glockengasse gallery in Cologne.
  • 1983: Hans Liska - Daimler-Benz 1950–1983; Extract from the artistic work of the Daimler-Benz Museum.
  • June 5, 2014: Exhibition “Experience Hans Liska” in the Museo della Mille Miglia in Brescia (Italy).

Awards

literature

  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of the Fine Artists of the 20th Century. Volume 6: Supplements H – Z. 1962, p. 220.
  • Paul Simsa, Hans Jürgen Sproß, Horst I. Wendt: The star of your longing: posters and advertisements from Mercedes-Benz; Contemporary documents of applied art from 1900 to 1960; a project of the Mercedes-Benz cultural promotion . 1st edition. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1995, ISBN 3-89322-706-7 , p. 128-135 .
  • Mercedes-Benz-Aktiengesellschaft (Ed.): Hans Liska - Laurel, Smile, Passion . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01532-3 (with biography).
  • Jakob Lehmann: Appeal to the humane. On the life and work of Hans Liska. On the occasion of his hundredth birthday. Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense, Lichtenfels 2008 (= Kleine CHW-Schriften. Issue 3). ISBN 978-3-87735-198-7 .
  • Harry Niemann: The Star Painters. Motorbuch Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-02864-7 , pp. 50-92.
  • Christof Vieweg: Hans Liska. Sketches, scenes, situations - all over the world with Mercedes-Benz. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-7688-2464-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Manfred H. Grieb: Liska, Hans . In: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , pp. 930 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  2. ^ Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung - The 16 Olympic days . 1936, p. 36 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Peter Adam: Art of The Third Reich . Harry N. Abrams, New York 1992, p. 195 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - originally printed in Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung No. 51, 1938).
  4. ↑ proscription 1945 requiring elimination literature . 1945 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Henkell - The sparkling wine that can enchant a whole world! with poems by Franz von Rexroth. Henkell & Co., Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1970, OCLC 72045632 .
  6. ^ Gerhard C. Krischker: 300 years of Schlenkerla, Bamberg, 1678–1978 . Heller-Schlenkerla OHG Brewery, Bamberg 1978, OCLC 163724647 .
  7. ^ Friedrich Georg: Treason on the Eastern Front (=  publications of the Institute for German Post-War History . Volume 55 ). tape 1 . Grabert, Tübingen 2012 ( archive.org - book cover: Artillery shots ).
  8. ^ The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen . tape 2 . Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld 1936 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - four colored drawings behind pages 16 (The airship "Hindenburg" over the Reichssportfeld), 96 (The storm regatta on the Kiel Fjord), 136 (The Frankenburg dice game) and 160 (The closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium)).
  9. ↑ Hans Liska: War Sketchbook Luftwaffe . Condo-Verlag, Emmelshausen 1997, ISBN 3-928483-11-0 (reprint of the special edition from 1942).
  10. ↑ Hans Liska: War Sketchbook Hans Liska: limited facsimile reprint of the original 1944 . The reprint was arranged by Helmut Hurler […]. Helmut Hurler, Bamberg 1977, OCLC 48402026 .
  11. ^ Exhibition Hans Liska. Galerie Glockengasse, Cologne 1972, OCLC 1075248336 .
  12. ^ Jakob Lehmann: Hans Liska: Daimler-Benz 1950–1983; Excerpt from the artistic work . Daimler-Benz AG, Stuttgart 1983, OCLC 631815527 (exhibition catalog).
  13. ↑ Storyteller with pen and brush: premiere of the exhibition “Experience Hans Liska” in the Museo Mille Miglia. daimler.com, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Premiere of the exhibition “Experience Hans Liska” in the Museo Mille Miglia June 5, 2014. tunerportal.de, 2014, accessed on March 6, 2020 .
  15. ^ Upper Franconia culture atlas: prizes and grants - culture price of the Upper Franconian economy. Retrieved on March 6, 2020 : "1977 Karl-Heinz Bauer, Bamberg and Hans Liska, Bamberg"
personal data
SURNAME Liska, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian draftsman, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1983
Place of death Scheßlitz