Hans Muhr

The Goldfluss Fountain on Kärntner Strasse in Vienna

Hans Muhr (born April 21, 1934 in Graz ) is an Austrian sculptor .

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After teaching mathematics, physical education and handicrafts for more than ten years, Hans Muhr studied with Heinz Leinfellner at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1965 , where he received his diploma in ceramic sculpture in 1969. Since 1970 Muhr has been primarily concerned with stone carving and fountain design and has been working as a freelance sculptor since 1973.

For the city of Vienna, the “water sculptor” Hans Muhr created the so-called Viennese drinking fountain (also: Muhr fountain ), which is set up at various locations in Vienna, as a friendship gift but also in other major international cities. Other works by Muhr in Vienna are the water waves life fountain next to the Federal Chancellery, the gold river fountain on Kärntner Strasse , the vegetative sculpture in the Trabrenngrund residential complex , fountains and sculptures in the arcade courtyard of the town hall , the tree of life in the Vienna water world on the Kardinal-Rauscher -Platz and the Vienna water waves in Floridsdorf . In 2009 he designed the tombstone for the honorary grave of Vienna's former mayor Helmut Zilk, who died in 2008 . In 2015 he made the marble sculpture for Udo Jürgens' grave .

Honors

• 1969: Prize of the Academy for Applied Arts
• 1970: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
• 1972: Award of the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Zilk's tombstone blessed (ORF Vienna, June 24, 2009)
2. ↑ stol.it: Göflaner Marmor for Udo ( Memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Article from April 10, 2015

Web links

Commons : Hans Muhr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Muhr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Hans Muhr
• Entry on Hans Muhr in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )