Rudolf Hoflehner

Rudolf Hoflehner (born August 8, 1916 in Linz , Upper Austria ; † September 3, 1995 in Pantaneto , Colle di Val d'Elsa near Siena ) was an Austrian sculptor , painter and graphic artist .

Life

Plastic of the Austrian coat of arms in the National Council meeting room

Venus von Krieau (Figure 81), 1964, Faculty of Biology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau

Ornamental pattern - Marianne and Oskar Pollak-Hof

Hoflehner initially studied mechanical engineering in Linz from 1936 to 1938 and then architecture in Graz before taking up the stage design course at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1938 to 1939 . From 1939 to 1945 he was in military service in the German Wehrmacht . After the war he was a teacher at the arts and crafts school in Linz from 1945 to 1951.

Hoflehner did not “study” at the Vienna Academy with Fritz Wotruba from 1951 to 1954 , but at that time he was also working as a freelance artist in his studio. During this time he switched from painting to sculpture .

In the redesign of the National Council meeting room, Hofhlehner contributed the national coat of arms , made of chased steel, to the rear wall of the room , the appearance of which he freely designed artistically.

In 1955 Hoflehner made a trip to Greece . His sculptures made of welded iron then have an even greater relation to the human body with their expressive, towering forms.

In 1962 he was appointed to a professorship for sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , which he held until his retirement in 1981.

In 1968 Hoflehner created his last iron sculpture for the time being, but also carried out various large-scale commissioned works in the future, for example the bronze and steel sculpture "Fight against Cancer" in front of the main entrance of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg in 1972 and the bronze, steel and Wengeholz designed the "figure" set up in front of the new building for the Esslingen University of Education . Influenced by the painting of Francis Bacon , he began to paint existential and critical pictures. His self-portraits (1976) and the death meditations created between 1977 and 1985 became famous.

In the fifties and sixties, Hoflehner, with journalistic support in particular from Werner Hofmann , was the main representative of modern sculpture in Austria alongside Fritz Wotruba. He was known for his iron and steel sculptures, which gained international recognition, especially in the 1960s.

Hoflehner's honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery

Numerous artists both in the fine arts and in the field of art education were trained by Rudolf Hoflehner during the nearly two decades of his teaching post in Stuttgart. The better known include Utz Brocksieper , Bernd Damovsky , Boris Grünwald , Ingrid Hartlieb , Gert Riel , Reinhard Scherer , Max Schmitz , Gunther Stilling , Ingrid Dahn .

Hoflehner was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 175).

Awards

1954: UNESCO scholarship, stay in Greece
1959: Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts
1967: Berlin Art Prize
1972: Prize at the “3ème exposition internationale de dessins originaux”, Rijeka
1969: Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts
1977: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
1986: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for the fine arts

Exhibitions

Magnesite ball in shoots (1966)

1959 documenta 2 , Kassel
1964 documenta 3 , Kassel
1972 Museum of the 20th Century (painting), Albertina Collection of Graphics (drawings and prints), Vienna
1976 37th Venice Biennale
1977 documenta 6 , Kassel
1999 Timeline 1900–2000 New Gallery of the City of Linz
2006 What is plastic? 100 years - 100 heads Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg

Works in collections

literature

sorted by year of publication

Werner Spies : Rudolf Hoflehner: Krieauer creatures . With a catalog of all etchings and lithographs 1961–1970 by Kristian Sotriffer . Edition Tusch by Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna and Munich undated (= Austrian contemporary graphic artists, edited by Kristian Sotriffer, Volume IV).
Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959.
Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel : documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964.
Exhibition catalog for documenta 6 : Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books. Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X .
Wolfgang Kermer : Birthdays [for Rudolf Hoflehner's sixtieth birthday on August 8, 1976] . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 8: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from June 1, 1976 to October 31, 1977. Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, March 1978, p. 85– 86.
MM Moeller, Andreas Vowinckel, Tilman Osterwold: Rudolf Hoflehner: Paintings and Drawings = Imagines 1. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1982. ISBN 978-3-88462-010-6
Wieland Schmied : Rudolf Hoflehner. Change and Continuity . Stuttgart 1988.
Werner Hofmann : Rudolf Hoflehner . Stuttgart 1993.
Peter Assmann, Margit Zuckriegl [Red.]: Rudolf Hoflehner - Retrospective [on the occasion of the exhibitions "Rudolf Hoflehner - Early Works on Paper and Sculptures" in the Rupertinum Salzburg (February 14th - April 6th 1997) and "Rudolf Hoflehner - the late work: Painting, graphics and sculptures made of wood ”in the Upper Austrian State Gallery (February 13th – April 6th, 1997)], Weitra, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , 1997, ISBN 978-3-85252-149-7 [Catalogs of the Upper Austria. Landesmuseums, NF, Vol. 112].
Stuttgart encounters: the Wolfgang Kermer donation . Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, May 18 - June 24, 2005. Ed .: Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH, Nicole Nix-Hauck. Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer.
Donation Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011 ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 .

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Hoflehner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Recently: Almuth Spiegler: Das early Eisen . In: Die Presse , August 26, 2016 |
↑ parliament.gv.at - meeting room of the National Council
^ Avant-garde to the academy: appointed sculptor Rudolf Hoflehner . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , October 31, 1962
↑ Akademie-Mitteilungen 3: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from October 1, 1972 to March 31, 1973. Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer , Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, April 1973, ill. P. 16 , as well as: Wolfgang Kermer: The professors of the graphic design, interior architecture and design departments: Ade, Brudi, Bruse, Franz, Heinle, Henning, Jacki, Klink, Kröplien, Lehmann, Mohl, Stadelmaier, Stemshorn, Votteler, Weidemann, Witzemann, Wollner . State Art University Weeks Baden-Baden, 5. – 21. June 1981. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1981, p. 26 (the sculpture in a different view with title)
^ Akademie-Mitteilungen 5: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from November 1, 1973 to March 31, 1974. Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1974, ill. P. 19
↑ An insight into the sculpting class Hoflehner in 1967 is provided by: Wolfgang Kermer: “1968” and the reform of the academy: from the student unrest to the reorganization of the Stuttgart Academy in the 1970s . Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1998 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 9), p. 140, fig. 23
^ Exhibition catalog Plastik Südwest: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden . Edited by the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden. Baden-Baden: State Art Gallery, 1966, no p.
↑ Akademie-Mitteilungen 2: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from April 1, 1972 to October 30, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, October 1972, p. 5
↑ Akademie-Mitteilungen 1: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from October 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1972, p. 4
↑ Donation by Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , pp. 75–76 m. Fig.

personal data
SURNAME	Hoflehner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH	September 3, 1995
Place of death	Pantaneto , Italy

[1] Recently: Almuth Spiegler: Das early Eisen . In: Die Presse , August 26, 2016 |

[2] rliament.gv.at - meeting room of the National Council

[3] Avant-garde to the academy: appointed sculptor Rudolf Hoflehner . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , October 31, 1962

[4] Akademie-Mitteilungen 3: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from October 1, 1972 to March 31, 1973. Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer , Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, April 1973, ill. P. 16 , as well as: Wolfgang Kermer: The professors of the graphic design, interior architecture and design departments: Ade, Brudi, Bruse, Franz, Heinle, Henning, Jacki, Klink, Kröplien, Lehmann, Mohl, Stadelmaier, Stemshorn, Votteler, Weidemann, Witzemann, Wollner . State Art University Weeks Baden-Baden, 5. – 21. June 1981. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1981, p. 26 (the sculpture in a different view with title)

[5] Akademie-Mitteilungen 5: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from November 1, 1973 to March 31, 1974. Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1974, ill. P. 19

[6] An insight into the sculpting class Hoflehner in 1967 is provided by: Wolfgang Kermer: “1968” and the reform of the academy: from the student unrest to the reorganization of the Stuttgart Academy in the 1970s . Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1998 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 9), p. 140, fig. 23

[7] Exhibition catalog Plastik Südwest: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden . Edited by the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden. Baden-Baden: State Art Gallery, 1966, no p.

[8] Akademie-Mitteilungen 2: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: for the period from April 1, 1972 to October 30, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, October 1972, p. 5

[9] Akademie-Mitteilungen 1: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from October 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1972, p. 4

[10] Donation by Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , pp. 75–76 m. Fig.