Hubert Aratym

Hubert Aratym (born January 22, 1926 in Gutenstein , Lower Austria ; † February 22, 2000 in Vienna ; actually Hubert Pelikan ) was an Austrian painter , sculptor and set designer .

life and work

The focus of his work was the human being and his relationship with other people, whereby he mainly used the stylistic device of reduction in order not to distract from the essentials.

A collection of his works can be seen in the Hubert Aratym Foundation in his birthplace Gutenstein.

For the stage sets for The Balcony (1961, Volkstheater Vienna ) he received the Austrian State Prize for Applied Arts.

Works (selection)

Stage sets

• Jean Genet : The Balcony ( Volkstheater Wien , 1961, director: Leon Epp )
• Jean Genet: "Walls everywhere" (Volkstheater Wien, 1963, director: Leon Epp)
• Karl Kraus : The last days of humanity ( Theater an der Wien , 1964, director: Leopold Lindtberg )
• Jean Giraudoux : Sodom and Gomorrah ( Schlossparktheater Berlin , 1964)
• William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Volkstheater Wien , 1965, directed by Leon Epp)
• Antonio Draghi : L'eternita sogetta al tempo (Abbazia di Fossanova , 1968, musical direction: René Clemencic )
• William Shakespeare : " Hamlet 1603 " (Volkstheater Wien, 1970, director: Gustav Manker )
• György Sebestyén : "Agnes and Johanna" (Volkstheater Vienna, 1972, director: Gustav Manker)
• August Strindberg : "Schwanenweiß" (Volkstheater Wien, 1976, also director)
• Maurice Maeterlinck : The Blue Bird (Volkstheater Wien, 1995)
• Igor Stravinsky : The Soldier's Story (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1971)

Fonts

• From the knowledge of suffering . Vienna: Picus-Verlag, 1988
• Procession of the Past : Autobiography. Vienna: Hora-Verlag, 1992

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubert Aratym in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry for Hubert Aratym in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )