Hans Plangger

Horses , Bolzano bank promenade

Hans Plangger (born January 15, 1899 in Laas ; † June 26, 1971 in Bozen ) was a South Tyrolean sculptor .

Life

Hans Plangger attended the technical school in Laas and from 1923 studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Josef Müllner and Hans Bitterlich . After a stay in Rome, he lived as a freelance sculptor in Bolzano from 1933. Together with the German teacher Caroline Meraner, he had a son Günther Meraner in 1937 . In 1954 he married the artist Lieselotte Popp from East Prussia .

Plangger created sculptures such as statues, tombs or fountain figures made of wood, stone, clay and bronze. His works show a tendency towards the “heroic and heroic”, towards monumental designs and smooth surfaces. Expressive or abstract elements remained alien to him. Plangger was represented five times at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. He received a prize at the Bolzano Biennale in 1938 for the sculpture Die Aera Mussolini . He also took part in all five "Gau art exhibitions Tirol-Vorarlberg" held in Innsbruck between 1940 and 1944 and was awarded the first prize for sculpture there in 1942.

After the Second World War , Plangger became a member of the South Tyrolean Artists Association founded in 1946 .

Works (selection)

Side altar, parish church in Cermes

Bronze sculpture of the whip , 1933, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Buehl / Grau grave sculpture , Ohlsdorf cemetery , Hamburg, 1938
Fountain sculpture girl with jug , 1940/44, installed on Haydnplatz in Innsbruck 1953
Fountain sculpture girl with stork , 1943/44, installed on Kaiserschützenplatz in Innsbruck 1957, stored since 2018
Fountain sculpture Drei Salige Fräulein , 1953/54, installed in Rapoldipark in Innsbruck 1958
Nals War Memorial , 1967
Bronze sculpture horses , right bank promenade , Bozen
Side altar in the parish church of St. Sebastian and Nikolaus in Tscherms

literature

Plangger, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 598 .
Helmuth Oehler: The Saligen in focus. In: Innsbruck informs , No. 6, June 2014, p. 58 ( digitized version )
Helmuth Oehler: Snow white? In: Innsbruck informed , August 2018, pp. 58–59 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Hans Plangger - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Helmuth Oehler: Tyrolean sculptor 1938–1945: Hans Plangger (1899–1971)
↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol , Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 172-173 .
↑ Figure grave sculpture Buehl / Grau
↑ Felmayer, Wiesauer: Laufbrunnen, fountain girl with jug. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
↑ Running fountain girl with stork. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
^ Rifle company Nals cleans war memorial , Burggrafenamt online, February 1, 2015

personal data
SURNAME	Plangger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South Tyrolean sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lasa
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 1971
Place of death	Bolzano

[1] Helmuth Oehler: Tyrolean sculptor 1938–1945: Hans Plangger (1899–1971)

[2] Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol , Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 172-173 .

[3] Figure grave sculpture Buehl / Grau

[4] Felmayer, Wiesauer: Laufbrunnen, fountain girl with jug. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 30, 2017 .

[5] Running fountain girl with stork. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 30, 2017 .

[6] Rifle company Nals cleans war memorial , Burggrafenamt online, February 1, 2015