Hans Mauracher (sculptor)
Hans Mauracher (born July 1, 1885 in Kaltenbach im Zillertal, † August 22, 1957 in Graz ) was an Austrian sculptor .
Life
Hans Mauracher grew up in the village of Kaltenbach as the youngest of five children of the wagon master Johann Mauracher and his wife Elisabeth, née Angerer. The father used to carve wooden toy figures for his children, which little Hans soon tried himself and showed great skill in it as a primary school student. He learned the trade of wood turner in Schwaz , where he discovered his love for music in a concert. He learned to play the violin, which often helped him to earn a meager income as a musician at dance events in the following years of traveling. He worked in several metalworking professions in Regensburg, Düsseldorf and Eisenach, did his military service as a musician in the 1st Tyrolean Kaiserjägerregiment and attended the arts and crafts school in Munich from 1909 to 1912 . He then spent two years studying with Karl Janssen at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .
From 1914 to 1918 he served in the army. After the end of the war, Colonel Karl von Spur took the art-loving soldier with him to Graz, where he offered him an existence that also enabled him to devote himself to sculpture. When the Graz Secession was founded in 1923, he was one of the founding members. Travel to Italy, Düsseldorf and Cologne followed. In 1930 he built his own house with a studio in Waldhof near Mariatrost near Graz, where he lived and worked with his wife Ida until his death. The Hans Mauracher Museum was located there for some time. In 1933 Mauracher became a member of the NSDAP, which was illegal in Austria at the time . He created several programmatic works in line with Nazi ideology.
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Religiousness, love of home and closeness to nature characterize Mauracher's personality. Emotion clung to his works, but also deep symbolism; JGKölly says of him in 1930 that he lifts the figures into the timeless when abstract concepts become pictorial in them . His oeuvre includes numerous public works, monuments, architectural sculptures, sacred commissions (e.g. "the angel Raphael" and "the young Tobias" at the giant gate of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna), nativity scenes. As a portraitist, he portrayed many personalities from society and the art world of his time. (including Anton Wildgans , Konrad Adenauer , Franzsepp Würtenberger ). He was given stage equipment twice. A large number of small sculptures were created by the end of his life, which testify to his strong rural-folk ties and his tendency towards symbolic representation.
Honors
- Silver medal of the city of Graz 1924
- Golden Medal of the City of Graz 1926
- Austrian State Medal
- Medal of the City of Linz 1937
- Appointed professor in 1950
- Appointed citizen of the city of Graz in 1955
- Name of the Hans-Mauracher-Strasse in Graz, 1961
- Memorial plaque with portrait bust on the house where he was born in Kaltenbach, 1985
literature
- Trude Aldrian, "Hans Mauracher", Leykam, 1960
- Styrian State Museum Joanneum, "Hans Mauracher Das plastische Werk", 1956
- Advice for architecture, home decor and art, issue 1/2, 1934
- Austrian Art, No. 10, 1931
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Mauracher-Museum ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
- ↑ a b final report of the expert commission for street names Graz. Graz, November 24, 2017 , pp. 96–98 (PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ↑ Baumann, Schmid-Pittl: Birthplace of the sculptor Hans Mauracher with a memorial plaque (portrait relief). In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mauracher, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaltenbach (Zillertal) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1957 |
| Place of death | Graz |