Roman Haller (painter)

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Roman Haller (born November 2, 1920 in Vienna ; died May 5, 2010 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist who sometimes produced large-scale abstract works in the form of mosaics and sgraffiti on buildings in Vienna.

Life

Fox mosaic on a residential building (1957)
Sgraffito in Kapelln, Hauptstrasse 14.

Haller was the son of a master locksmith who was close to the socialists. After primary school, he attended a technical college in Vienna from 1934 to 1937. At the age of almost 19 he was called up for drafting in the summer of 1939 and assigned to the Navy, but was initially released for a year because he had enrolled at a school of arts and crafts. Haller was imprisoned in the Wehrmacht remand prison in the Favoriten district during the war . After the end of the Second World War he studied from 1945 to 1947 at the graphic teaching and research institute in Vienna. He then worked as a graphic artist, designed furniture, household items and textiles and made technical drawings. In 1948 he visited an exhibition of the Viennese artists' association Art Club and was inspired by the pictures of the Spanish painter Pablo Palazuelo to do abstract painting himself. In 1951 he became a member of the Art Club and his works have been shown at exhibitions at home and abroad. At the exhibition “Austrian Contemporary Art” in 1952, he was awarded the “Jury Prize”. Its mosaics and sgraffiti that decorate some buildings are known. In 1966 he accepted a position as assistant to Rudolf Hausner , a representative of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism , at the State Art Academy in Hamburg. In 1968 he was appointed professor at the Ecole Montolieu in Montreux and returned to Vienna in 1971.

Exhibitions

  • 1971: Roman Haller Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
  • November 1990: Roman Haller on his 70th birthday "Oil paintings". Vienna

Literary reception

Vladimir Vertlib tells in his novel My First Murderer. Life stories in the chapter After the Final Victory from the memoirs of Haller whom he had interviewed. In his book, however, he does not use his real name, but calls him Robert Hamminger.

literature

  • Roman Haller . Caesar boarding school. Art, Manus-Verlag, Stuttgart / Egg / ZH 1986, ISBN 3-923275-68-4 .
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 20th century . tape 2 : G-K . Self-published, Vienna 1986, OCLC 923302652 , p. 38 f .
  • Roman Haller, Johannes Scheer: Roman Haller. Monograph with a complete catalog raisonné of the pictures and the original prints . Art publ. Wolfrum, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-900178-16-1 .

Web links

Commons : Roman Haller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roman Haller in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at, accessed on August 4, 2018.
  2. ^ Memorial to those persecuted by the Nazi military justice system in Vienna. WUG favorites, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Haller, Roman. zeitgenoessische-kunst.at, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Vladimir Vertlib: My first murderer. Life stories . Deuticke in Paul Zolnay Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-552-06031-6 .
  5. ↑ David Axmann: Vertlib: My first murderer - a hospitable manslaughter . In: Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at ).
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2010
Place of death Vienna