Ilse Glaninger-Balzar

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Ilse Glaninger-Balzar (also Ilse Glaninger-Halhuber ; born May 2, 1919 in Innsbruck as Ilse Halhuber ; † November 4, 1998 ibid) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Ilse Glaninger-Balzar was the second child of the engineer Max Halhuber and his wife Anna, nee. Larcher, born in Innsbruck. Her older brother was the cardiologist Max-Joseph Halhuber . Ilse Halhuber attended the state trade school in Innsbruck , where Hans Pontiller was her teacher. During the Second World War she worked as a Red Cross helper and hospital nurse. In 1943/44 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Josef Müllner . In 1947/48 she stayed in Paris on a grant from the French Cultural Institute , where she was influenced by Ossip Zadkine and Germaine Richier . She then settled in Innsbruck as a freelance artist. From 1948 she received her first public commissions, among other things within the framework of the art-in-building program of the state of Tyrol, but mainly for Tyrolean churches. In 1951 she took over the plastic work on the film Bluebeard .

In 1945 she was a co-founder of the Tyrolean Artists' Association , in which she was the sculptor's representative on the board from 1946 to 1952 and Doyenne from 1974 . In 1952 she worked in a foundry in Rendsburg (Schleswig-Holstein).

Her first husband, Walter Glaninger, whom she married in 1943, died at the front that same year. The common child died in childbirth. In 1962 she married the engineer Ladislaus Balzar.

Ilse Glaninger-Balzar's works include statues and reliefs, mainly in terracotta  or bronze . In addition to religious motifs, she also created portrait busts of acquaintances such as Raimund Berger  and Max Mell . Her sculptures follow Pontiller's balanced formal language, but are enriched with expressive accents. Closed forms are broken up like a filigree symbol and represent a synthesis between tradition and expressive modernity.

Awards

Works

Left portal Maria as comforter of the afflicted , parish church Wattens

literature

  • Dankmar Trier: Glaninger-Balzar, Ilse . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 2 f.
  • Felix Braun: The sculptor Ilse Glaninger-Halhuber. In: Alte und Moderne Kunst, Issue 60 and 61 (1962), pp. 45–47 ( digitized version )
  • Inge Praxmarer: “As if they wanted to take the glory of our superiority away from us.” Visual artists in Tyrol. In: Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (ed.): Panoptica. women.culture.tyrol. Innsbruck 2013, pp. 49-50 ( PDF; 16 MB )

Web links

Commons : Ilse Glaninger-Balzar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Myss (Ed.): Ilse Glaninger-Balzar . Wort und Welt Verlag, Innsbruck 1980, ISBN 3-85373-049-3 .
  2. ↑ Ingeborg Erhart and Cornelia Reinisch-Hofmann: Art in Public Space in Tyrol 2009–2013. In: Tyrolean and South Tyrolean cultural departments (ed.): Art in public space. 2013/2014 cultural reports from Tyrol and South Tyrol. Bozen / Innsbruck 2014, p. 143 ( PDF; 9 MB )
  3. ↑ City of Innsbruck: Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture (PDF; 306 kB)
  4. ^ Parish Wattens: Marienkirche - New parish church
  5. ↑ Stadtpfarre Wörgl: Church - the interior
  6. ↑ Laufbrunnen, Roßbrunnen. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Glaninger-Balzar, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halhuber, Ilse (maiden name); Glaninger-Halhuber, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1998
Place of death innsbruck