Karl Hauk
Karl Hauk (born May 1, 1898 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna , † August 13, 1974 there ) was an Austrian painter.
Live and act
The second son of a pharmacist grew up in a middle-class family in Linz from 1904 . After completing secondary school and high school in Linz, Hauk began studying at the Technical University in Vienna, which he did not continue after his military service from 1916 to 1918 on the Italian front. After 1918, Hauk studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, won several prizes and successfully established himself as a freelance artist from 1923. Hauk, a member of the Hagenbund from 1927 , developed a wide range of artistic activities, especially in the interwar period, including in public spaces. In 1928 he designed the frescoes in the newly opened main building of the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria in Linz (they were destroyed by flames in World War II). From 1933 Hauk lived mainly in Vienna again. He was considered a representative of Christian art and was friends with Clemens Holzmeister . Hauk was allowed to artistically decorate the new Sandleiten parish church in Vienna, created the designs for the stained glass of the Christ the King's Church in Vienna and the commission for the frescoes in the main train station in Linz was awarded to him in 1936 (this work was also destroyed in the war).
In 1943 Hauk was called up again for military service. In 1947 he was appointed director of the newly founded art school in Linz . Hauk remained active and successful until the 1960s as a designer of panel paintings, “ art in architecture ” (such as mosaics) and church windows. From 1952 until his death, Hauk lived mainly in Vienna again.
The artist, who, shaped by socially critical realism and New Objectivity , felt obliged to a figurative conception of art until the 1960s, slowly fell into oblivion in the 1970s.
The current revaluation of art from the interwar period has brought Hauk back into the public eye again.
literature
- Roland Widder (Ed.): Karl Hauk. Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-969-1 (catalog).
- Roland Widder (Ed.): Karl Hauk. Provincial Library, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-970-7 (monograph).
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Hauk in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.karlhauk.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauk, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klosterneuburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1974 |
| Place of death | Vienna |