Hans Weber-Tyrol

Hans Josef Weber-Tyrol (born October 31, 1874 in Schwaz , † July 14, 1957 in Meran ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Hans Weber was the second child of the businessman Ludwig Weber and his wife Anna Hörfarter. A scholarship enabled him to attend the state trade school in Innsbruck from 1889 to 1892 in the arts and crafts department. He then worked for a year in Vienna as a theater painter's assistant in the court theater studio. In 1894 he moved to Munich because he had been commissioned to design the decorations for the Thiersee Passion Play . For this activity he received another state scholarship, with which he studied at the Munich Academy with Gabriel von Hackl , Nikolaus Gysis and Paul Hoecker .

In the following years Weber earned his living with decoration work, handicrafts and poster designs , but then, under the influence of Joseph Wopfner , turned more to landscape painting . In 1905 he met Albin Egger-Lienz , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. At this time he also became friends with the artists Ludwig Penz and Artur Nikodem . In 1900 Weber entered into his first marriage, from which three daughters were born. In 1907 she was divorced again.

Hans Weber lived mainly in Munich until 1929, but also made trips, especially to South Tyrol . He regularly took part in exhibitions (silver medal at the World Exhibition in St. Louis ) and signed Weber-Tyrol for the first time in 1911 . In 1914 he was accepted as a member of the New Secession in Munich . He spent the First World War as a war painter on the Tyrolean southern front .

After the war he founded the Tyrolean Chamber of Artists with the architect Lois Welzenbacher . This was followed by exhibitions in the Züricher Kunsthalle (1919) and at the German Trade Show in Munich (1922). He also became a member of the German Werkbund . In 1926 he took part in the large exhibition of Tyrolean artists in the Rhineland.

After marrying Christine Matscher (1928) from South Tyrol, he settled in South Tyrol in 1929, but kept his Munich studio. His places of residence were Obermais , Schenna and St. Pauls , and then finally Eppan in 1936 . He took part in several art biennials organized by the fascist administration in Bolzano . Weber-Tyrol received the Great Austrian State Medal in 1932. In 1933 he founded the Tyrolean artists' association Der neue Bund , which he also headed until 1938. In the years 1940–1944 he took part in four "Gau art exhibitions" with landscape depictions, which were organized in Innsbruck as part of the National Socialist cultural policy. During the Second World War , his Munich studio was hit by bombs and destroyed, and a large part of his work was lost.

He continued to work well into old age and received recognition through being awarded the title of Professor (1949) and through exhibitions in Bozen (1950), Vienna (1951), in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum (1952) and in Linz and Salzburg (1956).

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Hans Weber-Tyrol is considered one of the great Tyrolean painters of the 20th century. His landscapes, animal pictures, still lifes and depictions from rural life are characterized by a strong linear and strongly colored style. In addition to oil paintings , he mainly created watercolors . His works are in the Albertina in Vienna , in the museums of Bozen and Merano and in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum.

Exhibitions

• Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck 1967
• Memorial exhibition for the 30th year of death, Eppan 1987
• Schwaz 1988

literature

• Gottfried Hohenauer: Hans Weber-Tyrol. An artist's monograph . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1966.
• Wilfried Plangger: Hans Weber-Tyrol. Encounter with the painter, a master of post-impressionism . Tappeiner, Lana 1999, ISBN 88-7073-275-4 .
• Elisabeth Maireth: Hans Weber-Tyrol. 1874-1957 . Athesia, Bozen 2002, ISBN 88-8266-166-0 .
• Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat: Tyrol Lexicon. A reference work about people and places in the state of Tyrol . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4210-2 , pp. 665-666.
• 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. 185, 231, 234-235 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog online