Rudolf Hausner

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Rudolf Hausner's Adam before the Authorities I (1994), detail, until 2017 in the Carmelite Church in Wiener Neustadt

Rudolf Hausner (born December 4, 1914 in Vienna ; † February 25, 1995 in Mödling , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and important representative of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism . He is the father of the painter and set designer Xenia Hausner , the film director Jessica Hausner and the costume designer Tanja Hausner .

Life

Rudolf Hausner's father was a commercial employee. Artistically he worked as a Sunday painter, which made Rudolf Hausner enthusiastic about art very early on. From 1923 to 1931 he attended the Realgymnasium Schottenbastei in Vienna. He then began his studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Carl Fahringer and Karl Sterrer .

In 1937 Rudolf Hausner was drafted into the Austrian Armed Forces . In 1938 his painting was banned from being exhibited by the Reich Chamber of Culture . In 1941 he was drafted into the German armed forces. During this time there was his formative traumatic log cabin experience in the Russian Tatras , which he takes up again and again in his later works. In 1943 Hausner was dismissed by the Wehrmacht, unfit for war, and employed as a technical draftsman in the armaments industry. In the last days of the war in 1945 he was drafted into the air defense again.

Rudolf Hausner's grave

In the 1950s he had little success as a painter, who was only able to sell his first picture in 1960, and continued to have economic problems. In 1952, Hausner was sentenced to two years in prison because he was involved in the Grill affair and involved in stealing stolen precious metal.

As the pianist of the Penguin Jazz Quartet , Rudolf Hausner has been to England , France , Italy , Switzerland , Greece , Turkey , Egypt and Scandinavia .

Awards

Picturesque work

Rudolf Hausner's room in which we live

His first artistic phase was influenced by impressionism and expressionism . After the war he resumed work in his destroyed studio in Vienna and tried to project the Tatra view into his work process. In 1946 Rudolf Hausner founded a surrealist group in the Austrian Art Club together with Edgar Jené , Ernst Fuchs , Wolfgang Hutter and Fritz Janschka . Anton Lehmden and Arik Brauer later joined this loose artists' association. The first exhibition in the Vienna Konzerthaus followed .

In 1956 Hausner finished his painting 'Arche des Odysseus' after six years of work. In 1957 Hausner's first Adam picture was created , which he varied over and over again. He tried to portray the existence of conscious and unconscious processes as equivalent and thus came into conflict with the popular surrealist orthography of other artists and art critics.

In 1959 Rudolf Hausner took part in the documenta II in Kassel . In the same year the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism was founded with Rudolf Hausner . Instead of being assigned to Surrealism, the term Fantastic Realism developed by Johann Muschik prevailed for Rudolf Hausner's work. In the same year Rudolf Hausner exhibited for the first time in a group exhibition at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna. Numerous international exhibitions followed. In addition, Rudolf Hausner gave lectures and accepted guest lecturer positions in Hamburg and Tokyo .

From 1966 Hausner was a university professor in Hamburg and from 1968 professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. A special feature of his painting technique is the use of translucent ("glazing") resin oil paints applied in more than 10 layers on top of each other over underpainting of acrylic paints, which give the color a special luminous depth. He also developed methods to create flawless transitions in pure oil painting without the use of an airbrush.

He published articles and books on his work and art history .

He also designed stamps for the Austrian Post and the United Nations Postal Administration .

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Hausner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Hausner's biography . Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ orf.at - family list: 100 years of Rudolf Hausner . Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ Michael Hochedlinger and Thomas Just: "These thefts are unique in the history of all archives in the world". The Grill Affair 1951-1953. A contribution to the personal history of the house, court and state archives between the 1st and 2nd republic . In: Communications from the Austrian Institute for Historical Research . Volume 113, 2005, pp. 362-388, here p. 384.
  4. ↑ In court: seven years for Dr. Grill In: Arbeiter-Zeitung No. 150/1952, June 29, 1952.
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  6. ^ Walter Schurian: Fantastic Art from Vienna 1900 to 2010 , ISBN 9783938049174 , pages 137-138, 159
personal data
SURNAME Hausner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1995
Place of death Mödling