Hubert Wilfan
Hubert Wilfan (born February 11, 1922 in Feldkirchen in Carinthia ; † November 1, 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .
Life
Hubert Wilfan attended the secondary school and the applied arts school in Graz . In a workshop for church sculpture he did his craft training. He studied from 1949 to 1952 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Fritz Wotruba . From 1966 to 1982 he taught at the Technical College in Vienna I.
He was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus .
Wilfan developed a very independent formal language, with which he tried to express psychological elements, especially in portrait busts of Leon Askin , Leonard Bernstein , Marc Chagall , Oskar Werner , Bruno Kreisky , among others . He also became known for his design of Oslo Square in Vienna-Donaustadt and the monument by Fridtjof Nansen on the campus of Tromsø University in Norway.
From 1945 until his death, Wilfan was married to his Norwegian wife Lillian and had a daughter and a son with her. Hubert Wilfan was buried at the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 1, row B, number 119).
honors and awards
- 1983 Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 1992 Medal of Honor from the Austrian-Norwegian Society for his efforts to promote cultural relations between the two countries
- 1992 Golden Laurel of the Vienna Künstlerhaus
- 2004 Great Golden Decoration of the State of Carinthia
Works
- Pietà , St. Florian Vienna 5
- Christ at the high altar, Schönbrunn-Vorpark church
- People's altar, ambo , top sacrament house, St. Othmar as a statue in front of the parish church to Pfarrgasse, parish church hl. Othmar , Mödling
- Horse group , Heiligenstadt
- Christophorus , Grinzingerstrasse
- Flight , Hamburg
- Leonard Bernstein , Berlin
- Leopold Rudolf , Theater in der Josefstadt
- Theodor Dahl , Norway
- Camillo Sitte , Aula of the HTL, Vienna I.
- Karl Fellinger , Rudolfinerhaus , Vienna
- Cosmic clock , HTL, Vienna 3
- Sundial , Kaiser Ebersdorferstrasse
- Medicinal water fountain , Badgastein
- Medicinal water fountain , Hofgastein
- Yesterday - today , Rathauspark Vienna, reminds of the destruction of the war in Vienna
Web links
- Literature by and about Hubert Wilfan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hubert Wilfan at www.bildhauerverband.at
- "Hubert Wilfan died at the age of 85" , derStandard.at , November 15, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Search for the dead
- ↑ Art Folder, Altar and Ambo, artist Hubert Wilfan, parish church of St. Othmar Mödling
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilfan, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Feldkirchen in Carinthia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 2007 |
| Place of death | Vienna |