Hans Purin (painter)

Houses by the river, 1979

Hans Purin (born May 24, 1898 in Kennelbach , † September 16, 1989 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian painter and art teacher.

Life

Hans Purin was born as the son of factory workers who came to Vorarlberg as immigrants from Valsugana and initially worked as a weaver in a cotton mill in Kennelbach. From 1919 to 1920 he studied at the Dornbirn trade school , and in 1921 he learned church painting in the Bohemian town of Reichenberg ( Liberec ). He continued his studies from 1922 to 1925 at the Knirr painting school in Munich and in Ferdinand Andri's master class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . From 1925 he taught until the dissolution of the abbey by the Nazis as an art teacher at the private school Collegium Bernardi of Abbey Mehrerau in Bregenz. From 1945 until his retirement in 1963, Purin worked as an art teacher at the secondary school in Bregenz-Belruptstraße and as a freelance artist until old age.

His son was the architect Hans Purin (1933-2010), his grandson is the cultural scientist Bernhard Purin .

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Ceiling fresco of St. Sebastian in front of Emperor Diocletian in the parish church of Dornbirn-Oberdorf, 1930

In 1925 Purin created the ceiling paintings for the parish church Bregenz-Fluh in Fluh in Bregenz with the painter Anton Marte . From 1928 to 1930, after a long period of study in Rome, the design of the parish church of St. Sebastian in Dornbirn-Oberdorf and the design of a war memorial in Gaissau took place . In addition, numerous still lifes and landscape paintings were created, which are in public and private collections.

The artistic estate of Hans Purin is in the vorarlberg museum in Bregenz.

literature

• Short biography and sources, p. 248. In: Susanne Fink, Cornelia Rothmund: Fine arts in Vorarlberg. 1945-2005. Biographical lexicon. Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bucher-Verlag, Hohenems 2006, ISBN 978-3-902525-36-9 .
• Helmut Swozilek: Art in Vorarlberg 1900-1950. Exhibition catalog of Vorarlberger Landesmuseum 66, Bregenz 1976.
• Andreas Ulmer: Restoration of the St. Wendelins parish church on the Fluh. In:  Vorarlberger Volksblatt , October 15, 1925, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
• Interior renovation of the parish church Sankt Wendelin, Fluh 1988/89. Festschrift on the occasion of the completed interior renovation of the parish church of St. Wendelin, Fluh. Fluh 1989.
• Andreas Ulmer: The picturesque decoration of the parish church in Dornbirn-Oberdorf. In:  Vorarlberger Volksblatt , December 15, 1928, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
• Parish Saint Sebastian (ed.): 100 years Parish Saint Sebastian Dornbirn Oberdorf . Dornbirn 1988.