Johann Hazod

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Johann Hazod (born March 30, 1897 in Oberkappel , † July 30, 1981 in Linz ) was an Austrian printer and painter .

Live and act

Fresco Last Judgment in the new choir of the Oberkappel parish church

Hazod grew up as the son of a small farmer in Oberkappel and learned printing in Linz. From 1915 to 1918 he did military service in the 14th Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army . After returning from the war he was initially a book printer again and then switched to office work as an accountant at the consumer cooperative for Linz and the surrounding area, where he was also responsible for their advertising activities.

He acquired knowledge of painting partly through self-study and attended the evening act with Rudolf Feischl in the painting school Matthias May . He dealt intensively with the paintings of Paul Cézanne and the French Impressionists and made the acquaintance of Rudolf Steinbüchler , who introduced him to fresco painting .

From 1934 he lived in Urfahr with the hunter in the valley, in St. Magdalena . In 1934 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Painting. During a trip to Italy in 1937 he visited the Tintoretto exhibition in Ca 'Pesaro and got to know Giotto's frescoes . From 1939 he worked as a freelance painter.

Works

Sgraffito Donauweibchen, Linz, Urfahr

Hazod's works are in the State Gallery in Vienna , in the Upper Austrian State Museum, in the Museum of the City of Linz, among others. He created oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, woodcuts, frescoes, landscape paintings, very realistic religious compositions and portraits.

The fresco Frankenburg dice game created by him in 1940/41 for the meeting room of the Gaustab building of the Reich Labor Service Linz (later Salesianum Linz) was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1942 he received an order in the course of redesigning the Wels train station and was awarded the exhibition prize of the Reichsgau Upper Danube. In 1943 he was appointed to Berlin and used as a front draftsman. He worked as a propaganda company painter for three months in the Minsk area . In 1953 he designed the altarpiece for the educational home in Puchberg Castle near Wels .

  • Sgraffito The Two Readers , Linke Brückenstraße 34, Urfahr, 1965.
  • Sgraffito Donauweibchen , Linke Brückenstraße 34, Urfahr, 1965.

Exhibitions

Sgraffito The two readers , Linz, Urfahr

As a member from 1929 Hazod exhibited regularly within the framework of the artists' association MAERZ and later in the professional association of fine artists of Upper Austria . In 1943 he exhibited in the Volksgarten pavilion in Linz. In 1951 he showed oil paintings and compositions as part of a personal exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz .

Works were shown as part of group exhibitions (selection):

  • Johann Hazod (1897 to 1981), Nordico, 1983.
  • The Art of Line - Possibilities of the Graphic , Linz State Gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, 1999.
  • ... from the collection: Silent Scream - Images against war and violence. Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, 2002.
  • --- from the collection: self-portraits. Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, 2006.
  • The Führer’s cultural capital , Schlossmuseum Linz, 2009.
  • Timeline (2) - Painting of MAERZ - The founding generation , Artemons , 2011
  • 100 Years of MAERZ, The Beginnings 1913 to 1938 , Nordico , 2013
  • ... from the collection: Fine arts in Upper Austria 1945 to 1955. State gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, 2015.

Awards

  • In 1992, Hazodstrasse in Urfahr in the St. Magdalena district of Linz was named after him.

literature

  • Franz Pfeffer : Catalog of the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz, 1951
  • Upper Austria magazine, 1953.
  • Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government (Editor), Berthold Ecker, Michaela Ecker-Nagl, Martin Hochleitner (Editor): Johann Hazod (1897 to 1981) Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Allgemeine Sparkasse Oberösterreich and in the Brahuasgalerie Freistadt (1996/1997), Gars am Kamp 1996.

Web links

Commons : Johann Hazod  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Hazod in: Web presence of the City of Linz queried on December 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Pictures of Life - Johann Hazod. , online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  3. ^ Johann Hazod in: St. Magdalena web presence queried on December 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ Johann Hazod. In: Press release 100 years of MAERZ, The beginnings 1913 to 1938, Linz, 2013 queried on December 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hazod, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and printer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkappel
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1981
Place of death Linz