Josef Hay
Josef Heu (born February 21, 1876 in Marburg an der Drau , † October 30, 1952 in Ampleforth , District Ryedale in England) was an Austrian painter , sculptor and teacher.
Live and act
Josef Heu received his first training at the Graz trade school. From 1893 to 1898 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . His teachers were the famous sculptors Edmund von Hellmer and Caspar von Zumbusch . The Rome Prize, an Austrian state travel grant, enabled him to go on a year-long study trip to Italy . It was there that he created his monumental work Liberation of the Source , which he exhibited in 1907 in the Hagenbund , of which he was a member from 1902 to 1912. The City of Vienna subsequently acquired the work and installed it in the city park . In 1903, Heu created the groups of figures on the attic of the Viennese merchants' house on Schwarzenbergplatz .
Josef Heu was already known in Vienna for large sculptures in public spaces before the First World War . During the war he worked as a war painter and sculptor in the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter . He was active in the Russian, Italian, Serbian and Albanian theater of war.
From 1930 to 1934 he was president of the Austrian Society for Christian Art, and since 1912 he was a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna . He could no longer realize many of his designs for monuments, fountains, statues and tombs in the classical style.
As a professor he had many students, including those who became famous later, such as B. Siegfried Charoux and Valerie Lorenz-Szabo . After the “ Anschluss ” in 1938 the Nazis banned him from working because of his Jewish wife, his studio was confiscated and he had to flee Austria . In early 1939 he came to England , where he lived on commissions for monasteries and churches. In 1946 his sculpture Rufer in the Desert was one of the central exhibits in the large anti-fascist exhibition Never Forget in Vienna. Heu died in England in 1952 without having visited Austria again.
Works
- Attica of the house of the Viennese merchants: left: power of trade on land ( Atlas , Mercury ); right: Power of trade at sea ( Triton , Nereïden ), 1903, Schwarzenbergplatz
- Liberation-der-Quelle-Brunnen , 1906/07, Wiener Stadtpark
- Fountain with Roland's figure , who supposedly has facial features modeled on Karl Lueger , in the Lainz Hospital in Vienna-Hietzing, around 1912
- Statuette Pioneer , 1915, bronze, 11 × 9 × 30.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
- Statuette medical dog of the Austro-Hungarian Army , 1918, bronze, 7 × 12 × 15 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
- Bronze bust of Guido Holzknecht in Arne-Karlsson-Park , Vienna- Alsergrund ; unveiled November 2, 1932
- Fountain group Jüngling with the goose (also boy with swan ) in Vienna- Penzing , residential complex Jenullgasse 9-15, 1931
literature
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum . Verlag des Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna 2004, p. 71 f.
- Josef Hay . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 603-604 .
- Josef Hay . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 436 .
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 176.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ilse Krumpöck: The pictures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 71 f.
- ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum. Vienna 1923, p. 8.
- ^ Building description of the Lainz Hospital
- ↑ Housing complex Rupertgasse 6–16. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on May 19, 2015 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hay, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg on the Drau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1952 |
| Place of death | Ampleforth |