Josef Humplik

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Stoneware relief window into life at Schwenkgasse 54–60

Josef Humplik (born August 17, 1888 in Vienna ; † April 5, 1958 there ) was an Austrian sculptor , painter , medalist and graphic artist .

Life

Josef Humplik attended the ceramics college in Znojmo from 1902–1905 , then the Vienna School of Applied Arts (1905–1909) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (from 1910). He frequently sent exhibitions to the Vienna Secession and the Hagenbund , and was a member and functionary of both institutions.

During the First World War , Humplik was drafted into the artillery at the beginning of 1915 , but in March 1915 he volunteered for the kuk aviation troops . He crashed on a training flight and survived injured. Humplik continued to work as a war painter on the Isonzo and Romanian fronts . In April 1918 he was classified as 30% disabled. In May 1918, Humplik submitted an application for admission to the Imperial and Royal War press headquarters , but this was no longer dealt with.

After the war, Josef Humplik specialized in portrait busts and created, for example, those of Alban Berg , Ferdinand Ebner , Ludwig von Ficker , Jodok Fink , Anton Hanak , Georg Jahoda , Gustav Klimt , Karl Kraus , Arnold Schönberg , Anton Webern , and Grete Wiesenthal .

Humplik worked for the Vienna Burgtheater and also for the Augarten porcelain factory. In 1933 he took off Adolf Loos' death mask .

In 1937 Humplik was awarded the title of professor, in 1931 the Austrian State Prize, in 1932 the State Prize Medal, and in 1934 the State Prize. In 1936 he received an Olympic recognition award in Berlin, in 1950 the award of the Association of Austrian Industrialists and in 1952 the award of the City of Vienna for fine arts .

Since 1921 Humplik was married to the poet and artist Hildegard Jone .

Works (excerpt)

  • Crashed enemy plane , 1919, black chalk and charcoal on paper, 47.6 × 46 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
  • Escape , 1919, black chalk and charcoal on paper, 47.6 × 46 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

  • Josef Polnauer (Ed.): Anton von Webern: Letters to Hildegard Jone and Josef Humplik Universal Edition, Vienna 1959
  • Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): Flying 90/71. Exhibition catalog, Volume II: Flying in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971.
  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 79.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flies 90/71", catalog for the exhibition, Volume II: Flies in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971, p. 30.

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personal data
SURNAME Humplik, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1958
Place of death Vienna