Hans Plank
Hans Plank (born March 29, 1925 in Weng im Innkreis , † April 25, 1992 in Braunau am Inn ) was an Austrian artist.
Life
Hans Plank was born in Weng im Innkreis in 1925 - the first of two sons of master tailor Sebastian Plank and his wife Theresia. In the elementary school in Weng he expressed his desire to become a painter. In 1941 he received a scholarship to attend the teacher training college in Linz . In 1943 he took part in an exhibition of young artists for the first time there.
From 1947 to 1950 Hans Plank worked as a primary school teacher in Gilgenberg am Weilhart , Ostermiething and St. Peter am Hart .
From 1950 to 1954 Hans Plank studied with Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna on the recommendation of Herbert Boeckl . In 1963 he studied at the Warburg Institute in London.
1958/59 and from 1975 to 1979 he taught at the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Braunau am Inn .
After study trips all over Europe, the artist devoted himself increasingly to the woodcut in the 1960s ; later also watercolors , oil paintings and glass windows. Artistically, Hans Plank proved to be the heir to a painterly expressionism . This artistic commitment was coupled with a Christian understanding of the world, which committed the committed artist to deep human solidarity, for example with refugees and workers.
In the Innviertel you can still find Hans Plank's works in very different places, for example in the form of the chapel window in the house chapel of the Ostermiething retirement home or in the form of caricatures in the old tavern at the inn z'Ernsting, where Hans Plank often goes with his friends sat at the regulars table and recorded the day's events as a drawing.
Awards
- 1954 Boeckl Prize
- 1954 Acknowledgment Prize of the Gütersloh Master Class
- Gold medal for services to the city of Braunau am Inn
- 1977 professional title professor
- 1979 honorary citizenship of the community of Weng im Innkreis
- 1982 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for the fine arts
- Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
Works
- 1955 Murals in protective coat Madonna and St. Barbara in the parish church of Riedersbach
- 1956 Church window in the parish church of Oberkappel
Publications
- as ed., Johann Baptist Wengler (illustration): Johann Baptist Wengler: a painter of the Biedermeier. Upper Austrian regional publisher, Ried im Innkreis 1966.
- Expressionism in Austria: Klimt - Schiele - Kokoschka . Illustrated book. Berghaus-Verlag, Ramerding 1981, ISBN 3-7635-0032-4 .
literature
- Elfriede Engl : Hans Plank in the mirror of his friends. In: Yearbook of the Innviertel Artists Guild. 1992/93, pp. 121-131.
- Peter Kraft : Hans Plank (1925–1992). A “woodcut-like” artist. In: Upper Austria. Life pictures. Volume 8, Linz 1994, ISBN 3-900-31357-1 , pp. 221-226.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Plank in the catalog of the German National Library
- Extract of the works
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plank, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weng in the inner circle |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1992 |
| Place of death | Braunau am Inn |