Langenzersdorf Museum

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The Langenzersdorf Museum , formerly the Hanak Museum , is located in Langenzersdorf north of Vienna. A large part of the museum is dedicated to the work of the sculptor Anton Hanak .

History of origin

Anton Hanak spent over twenty years of his life in the market town of Langenzersdorf. The sculptor lived in Kellergasse from 1901 to 1921. The Hanak Museum was built in Oberen Kirchengasse not far from his house . A sculpture garden is attached to the museum .

Initially, the museum consisted of the garden and the above-ground building of the so-called "champagne cellar", which the community had made available to the museum association. After the renovation work, the works bought by the state of Lower Austria from the estate were presented to the public for the first time. The Hanak Museum was opened on June 6, 1970.

The director of the museum is Gregor-Anatol Bockstefl. After a general renovation, the museum reopened on May 17, 2014.

Duration

Numerous large sculptures and preparatory studies can be found in the display collection of the Langenzersdorf Museum. Works that Anton Hanak designed on behalf of the City of Vienna deserve special mention , such as the Viktor-Adler bust for the republic monument on Vienna's Ringstrasse or the Mother of Sorrows at the Vienna Central Cemetery . Works that Hanak created for his patron Otto Primavesi are also documented here. The museum contains studies on the larger than life sculpture of Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein and on the Pietà . The designs for the monumental "Emniyet Monument" in Ankara are kept here. Anton Hanak was no longer able to complete this last work himself.

Exhibits (selection)

  • The Burning Man , 1922, plaster draft
  • Prof. Dr. Emil Zuckerkandl , 1923, bronzed plaster draft
  • Sorrowful Mother, 1924, plaster draft for a war memorial at the Central Cemetery
  • Self-portrait , 1925
  • Portrait bust of Viktor Adler , draft for the Republic Monument on Vienna's Ringstrasse
  • Pieta , 1930, bronzed plaster draft of the second version
  • Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein , 1925, first and third version of the plaster draft
  • Young Turkey , 1933, plaster draft
  • Portrait bust of Karl Seitz , 1933/34, bronzed plaster draft

Student of Anton Hanak

The works of Anton Hanak's students, including Fritz Wotruba , are presented in a separate room.

other areas

The museum has the following additional focuses:

Anton Hanak Archive

The Anton Hanak Archive, which contains the artist's written estate, is attached to the museum. There is also extensive picture and sound material about Anton Hanak and his works.

Special exhibitions

Companions and contemporaries of Hanak are documented in special exhibitions. There are also exhibitions of contemporary visual artists.

literature

  • 900 years of Langenzersdorf , published by the market town of Langenzersdorf 2008
  • Anton Hanak , museum catalog on the occasion of the opening of the Anton Hanak Museum

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on lemu.at , accessed on April 12, 2014

Web links

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