Hellmuth Marx

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Marble figure Miss Oberdrauburg (Oberdrauburg citizen woman with gold bonnet) by Hellmuth Marx, with the Oberdrauburg Postplatz fountain

Hellmuth Marx (born June 17, 1915 in Linz ; † January 1, 2002 in Lienz ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Marx was born as the youngest of five children in Linz on the Danube . His father, Viktor Marx from Graz (1870–1928), was an Austro-Hungarian officer; his mother, Clara Marx b. Pichler (1876–1948) came from Oberdrauburg (Gasthof Post). In 1926 he attended secondary school in Graz , the hometown of his paternal grandmother (Theresia Pesendorfer from a trade family). He graduated from the Marieninstitut in June 1933 .

From 1933 he studied architecture for seven semesters at the Technical University in Graz - possibly following the models of the Oberdrauburg Pichler relatives - and at the same time was enrolled at the Styrian State Art School with Professors Daniel Pauluzzi , Alfred Wickenburg and Fritz Silberbauer . He must have studied there with Wilhelm Gösser , the head of a master class for wood and stone carving. Wilhelm Gösser was the son of the sculptor Hans Brandstetter , who created the memorial plaque for the poet Friedrich Marx in Oberdrauburg in 1909 .

1938/39 first drafted as a military man in Klagenfurt , he was subsequently forced to serve on the northern sea front as a soldier. The war events brought him to Lapland , Finland and Norway to Narvik . He was able to interrupt his military service from May 1939 to January 1940 in order to visit the General Sculpture School at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as a guest after a successful entrance examination. He was also enrolled here in the winter semester of 1941/42 thanks to a study leave.

In 1946/47 he returned to Vienna to the academy on Schillerplatz, to the master school for sculpture under Josef Müllner . In 1948 he was accepted by his mother and two sisters in Heiligenblut am Großglockner . After studying in Vienna, he stayed in Heiligenblut from June 1947 to autumn 1955 and began working as a freelance artist in 1948. After years of commuting between Heiligenblut and Oberdrauburg, he finally settled here until his death, in the Stainernhaus on Postplatz (now also known as the market square). Hellmuth Marx died on January 1st, 2002 in Lienz.

Works

Hellmuth Marx created representational works as a visual artist; the human body dominates his work. First and foremost, he was a sculptor. Apart from this main area, besides painting, Hellmuth Marx also devoted himself to the other visual arts in the course of his life. His training as a sculptor included (nude) drawing and painting, which he did in between and later supplemented with photography. The negatives of the photos, including portraits, have been lost. On the other hand, a number of previously lost works by Hellmuth Marx became known since 2014, especially works that the artist had produced during the war using the simplest means at the front. The latest discovery, "Lienz Marble Florian", is still being studied by historians and Marxologists . The last known position in the public area was the Floriani Fountain in 1965 at what was then the "Neue Platz" in Lienz. In 1966 the fountain was still detectable, but the associated white marble statue was removed. The rediscovery of this statue in January 2016 is due to the attention of the Lienz volunteer fire brigade .

literature

  • Heidi Brunnbauer: Hellmuth Marx. Sculptor in Oberdrauburg, life and works , Edition Weinviertel, Gösing am Wagram 2014, ISBN 978-3-902589-51-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Marx, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2002
Place of death Lienz