Hans Robert Pippal

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1954 with easel in the studio
Henri Dunant - Stele in Dunantgasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf
Mosaic object with monument protection in Vienna- Donaustadt

Hans Robert Pippal (born April 4, 1915 in Vienna ; † November 6, 1998 ibid) was an Austrian artist of painting and applied arts.

Life

Hans Robert Pippal grew up in Vienna during the Great Depression and initially completed a technical apprenticeship. His professional goal of becoming a painter was supported by the art dealer Benno Moser and the poet Hans Kühn , who provided the young man with a basement room as a studio and their private libraries and supported him through purchases. Pippal continued his education largely autodidactically and in the 1930s sought to get close to established artists such as Oskar Laske , Josef Dobrowsky , Sergius Pauser and Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel , whom he could observe while painting in the Schönbrunn Palace Park .

In 1936 and 1938 Pippal took part in exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus. The outbreak of the Second World War brought an abrupt end to the hopeful artistic beginning. Called up for military service in August 1939, Pippal returned to Vienna in 1943, seriously wounded. In the same year he married the architect Eugenie Kottnig (daughter Martina , * 1957) and resumed his artistic activity.

From 1945 Pippal was a member of the Vienna Secession and participated in numerous exhibitions, in 1956 he was awarded the professional title of Professor . Successful as an artist at home and abroad, Pippal also designed book covers, book illustrations and posters, and from the 1950s onwards carried out extensive commissions in the field of applied arts. Study trips led him a. a. to Italy , France , Spain , Holland , Sweden , Norway , England and the USA .

His honorary grave is in the Döblinger Friedhof (group 6, row 1, no. 10).

Creating art

The pictorial oeuvre

Hans Robert Pippal is perhaps the “most Viennese” Austrian painter of the 20th century: He is best known for his atmospheric views of representative streets and buildings in Vienna ( State Opera , Graben , Ringstrasse, etc.), which were his most important during his entire career Subjects were. Like hardly anyone else, Pippal knew how to capture the atmosphere, which changes the streets and squares depending on the season, time of day and weather, in his modern vedute . His work includes almost all genres of painting and graphics (especially pastel and watercolor ), from portraits to still lifes , landscapes and religious panel paintings . Pippal's earliest surviving works from 1937 onwards testify to his engagement with Paul Cézanne, on whom the young artist oriented himself both stylistically and thematically in the first decade of his work, as well as with so-called Austrian Expressionism ( Oskar Kokoschka , Anton Faistauer , Anton Kolig , Herbert Boeckl , Joseph Floch ). In the pictures and graphic works created towards the end of the war, Pippal processed formative war events and at the same time experimented with pastose, expressive application of paint. Pippal's paintings from the years 1948–50 are particularly interesting in terms of development history, where, through trips to Paris and contact with French art, he found a relaxed brushwork reminiscent of Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy and a fresh, bright color scheme. The “French”, cheerful element should remain inherent in his art throughout his life. For his cityscapes, Pippal subsequently retained the expressive style, at the same time from 1948 on - especially in works in pastel on paper - he adopted a cubist , geometrical design language. Pippal thus followed up on Ernst Paar 's reception of Cubism or, for example, on Herbert Boeckl's late cubist and abstract work. In the 1950s, Pippal created numerous still lifes and painted cabinets using the old master's glaze technique , including several trompes-l'œil . However, Pippal's variety of styles is never arbitrary eclecticism , but was often consciously used by him as a “mode” and is characterized by a joy in experimentation, which is characteristic of his entire work.

Book illustrations

  • In the Das-Österreich-Buch by Ernst Marboe (ed.), On an order from the Federal Press Service; Book illustration: Architectural drawings, maps and plans by Eugenie Pippal-Kottnig ; Landscape painting, figurative by Hans Robert Pippal; Mode, Tracht, Figurales by Elli Rolf; Font, general book design: Epi Schlüsselberger; Publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1948.
Bernhard Altmann, Marc Chagall , Hans Robert Pippal in Vence 1952

Textiles

  • 1952/53: Designs for inlaid sweaters for Bernhard Altmann
  • 1953: Design for printed fabric for the Tabergs Yllefabrik in Småland

Applied art in public space

Ceiling mosaic in the Burgtheater from 1955

In addition to his painterly activity, Pippal fulfilled portraits and between 1954 and 1988 created numerous applied works on behalf of the municipality of Vienna ( art in architecture ) in the techniques of mosaics , concrete glass , embossed copper, enamel , textiles, furniture and glass. Two mosaic ceilings for the Vienna Burgtheater , which reopened in 1955 , as well as the draft of the tapestry “State Treaty”, which was ceremoniously presented to President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the White House in Washington in 1959 as an Austrian state gift in gratitude for the State Treaty signed in 1955, deserve special mention . While Pippal always remained committed to representational art in his painting, he also used abstract design elements in applied art. For example, the large-format tapestries, which were made by the Viennese tapestry manufacture using tufting technique, are typical of the late Cubist, abstract design method that was tried and tested in graphic work from the 1940s onwards.

Mosaic pictures “Women's Professions”, 1956–57

Working in public space (selection):

All drafts of the works in public space are in the Wien Museum .

Exhibitions

Numerous exhibition participations as well as solo exhibitions in Germany and abroad (selection):

Memberships

Awards

Collections

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Pippal (ed.): Hans Robert Pippal. Between innovation and tradition (exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition "Hans Robert Pippal" of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in the Palais Harrach , October 24 to November 30, 2003). Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77137-0 .

literature

  • Albert Paris Gütersloh : About Hans Robert Pippal Speech at the opening of the solo exhibition at the Vienna Secession in May 1954 . In: Martina Pippal : Vienna 1915 - Vienna 1998. Between innovation and tradition. Catalog of works of oil paintings. (... appears on the occasion of an exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Palais Harrach, October 24th to November 30th, 2003) . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77137-0 , pp. 68ff.
  • Martina Pippal (ed.): Hans Robert Pippal. Between innovation and tradition (exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition "Hans Robert Pippal" of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in the Palais Harrach, October 24 to November 30, 2003). Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77137-0 .
  • Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 6. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 152.
  • Martina Pippal: Like in a circus. Memories of an artist's child (with 22 portraits by Hans Robert Pippal). Violetta-Ritterling-Verlag, Vienna (among others) 2008, ISBN 3-9502482-0-X .
  • Hans Robert Pippal . In: Austrian Art in Pictures and Conversations. Austrian Art. Dialogues and Images, The Collection of the Austrian National Bank. The Collection of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank , Vienna 2010, pp. 268–277.
  • Hans Robert Pippal . Edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder and Eva Michel (exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Albertina Vienna , January 22 to March 28, 2016). Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504101-1-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pippal, Hans Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1998
Place of death Vienna