Martin Häusle

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Martin Häusle

Martin Häusle (born December 5, 1903 in Satteins , † April 10, 1966 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian artist .

His most famous works are glass pictures and frescoes for churches. He created a large number of portraits, family pictures, landscapes and genre pictures. He designed interiors that still seem very modern today, created sculptures and ceramics, stage sets, and developed a patented coupling for railroad cars. To relax, he tinkered with a perpetual motion machine .

His unconventionally designed studio house, the "Glashaus", a former palm house in the Margarethenkapf park, caused very different reactions in the rather conservative surroundings. Martin Häusle covered two of the glass domes with thin aluminum sheet, decorated the walls with frescoes and mosaics and designed the entire interior.

biography

Martin Häusle was the descendant of a Sattein family of craftsmen. Among his ancestors was the churchman Johann Michael Häusle . Martin lost his mother in 1910 when his sister was born. The father, a carpenter, died in the First World War in 1916 . Childhood was marked by material shortages, hunger and cold.

At the age of eighteen Häusle began an apprenticeship as a painter. He attended the trade school in Innsbruck and entered Toni Kirchmayr's evening school , which he attended from 1924 to 1927. In 1927 he successfully passed the journeyman's examination, and he also won first and second prizes in a poster competition. The associated cash prize gave him the courage to travel to Vienna, he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Professor Ferdinand Andri ). On a scholarship he traveled to Greece in 1929 and visited the monks on Athos .

In 1931 he finished his stay in Andri's master class as an academic painter. He set up his first studio in the basement of his parents' house in Satteins. At first he was denied material success as a painter. Since he did not have the money for new painting grounds, he often used both sides of the painting ground during this time, and he also painted over already completed pictures with his new visions of landscapes, flower pictures and portraits. In 1932 intellectual friends from the Vorarlberg area joined forces to form the Häusle community. They supported the painter and received linocuts , wood prints and other graphic works by the young artist on agreed dates .

In 1933 he was commissioned to paint a fresco “Tobias and the Angel” on the south side of the Lech parish church. This was followed by stage sets for the “Guardian Angel Play” by Max Mell , “The Great World Theater” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca / Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In 1934 he traveled to Holland, where he studied the works of Dutch and Flemish masters. He was particularly impressed by the works of Vincent van Gogh . In 1936 Martin Häusle won a competition for the windows of the Zürs church . Another turning point in his life was his flower painting "Lilacs in a Vase". He exhibited the painting in the window of a fashion store in Feldkirch, thereby gaining attention and an invitation to come to town. In 1938 he moved his studio from Satteins to the Tschitscherschlössle above the Illschlucht , on the Margaretenkapf near Feldkirch . In 1939 a trip to Nuremberg, Bamberg, Würzburg, Mannheim, Heidelberg and Stuttgart followed.

In 1940 Häusle was drafted into the border guard, but released again because of pneumonia. After recovering, he was allowed to teach drawing at the Feldkirch grammar school, and in 1942 he was ordered to go to the barracks in Lochau to paint a large fresco .

In 1943 he married Gertrude Kirchberger. He was drafted again in 1944/45 to the customs border guard. He painted mountain landscapes and box paintings in the remote mountain regions.

Eight children came from his marriage to his wife Gertrud. The artist supported the large family mainly through commissioned work. Since this made the time for free painting precious to him, Martin Häusle devoted himself above all to the immediate surroundings. In the next few years he painted many family pictures, portraits, flower pictures, landscapes and, above all, motifs from the immediate vicinity of his home and studio. The avenue of lime trees in the surrounding park and the view of the city of Feldkirch repeatedly inspired him to paint.

Between 1950 and 1966 Martin Häusle designed mainly church windows and frescoes. He was no longer able to finish the stained glass windows of the St. Florin Cathedral (Vaduz) , Liechtenstein (designs from 1965) and the St. Antonius Church in Tschagguns (Latschau) (1966).

Martin Häusle died on April 10, 1966 after a stroke.

Awards

Works

Church windows and frescoes
in many churches Austrian, Liechtenstein and Daegu (South Korea), New Parish Götzis , parish Satteins , parish Liesing in Vienna, Sacred Heart Church in Bregenz, Parish Church of St Corneli in Feldkirch-Tosters, Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Feldkirch and parish church Holy Brother Klaus in Dornbirn-Schoren.
Design stamps
Set of stamps for the Principality of Liechtenstein "Bauernsatz"
Ceramics and furnishings
painting
  • Ascent to the sweep (landscape)
  • The girl with the birdcage (portrait)
  • Lilac in vase (still life with flowers)
  • Picture gallery

  • Ascent to Kehr 1945

  • Altar wall painting parish church St. Leonhard in Villach 1947

  • Stained glass window, Götzis parish church, 1947

  • Man in the Park 1950

  • Glass house 1965 (studio and home of the artist)

  • Golm at Satteins 1966

  • Palm house on Margarethenkapf, historical photo from the end of the 19th century.

literature

  • Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Volume 6, p. 7 f.
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 20th century. Volume II., G – K, page K 36/7.
  • Albert Ruetz, Helmut Swozilek : Memorial exhibition Martin Häusle. 1903-1966. Vorarlberg State Museum , Bregenz 1975.
  • Edith Schlocker: Martin Häusle. 1903 - 1966. Dissertation at the Institute for Art History at Innsbruck University in 1980.
  • Gert Ammann , Gertrude Häusle: Martin Häusle. 1903 - 1966. Catalog of an exhibition in Palais Liechtenstein , Feldkirch 1991.
  • Albert Ruetz, Helmut Swozilek: Martin Häusle. 1903 - 1966. Catalog of the commemorative exhibition for the 100th birthday, Palais Liechtenstein (Feldkirch) and Vorarlberger Landesmuseum (Bregenz), Bregenz 2003, ISBN 3-901802-17-7 .

Web links

Commons : Martin Häusle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vorarlberg.gv.at (PDF; 220 kB) Montafon 1945-1955, page 9, The academic painter Martin Häusle receives the Austrian State Prize for Painting.
  2. ↑ vorarlberg.at ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1947: Martin Häusle receives the Austrian State Prize for Painting @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
personal data
SURNAME Häusle, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Satteins
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1966
Place of death Feldkirch