Siegfried Hafner

Siegfried Hafner (born March 18, 1925 in Lienz ; † July 1, 2013 ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Hafner attended the State Trade School  in Innsbruck  with Hans Pontiller  and studied from 1949 to 1952 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna  with Franz Santifaller . He lived in Innsbruck and created religious sculptures, monuments, genre figures and nativity scenes. For many years he taught sculpture at the HTL in Innsbruck.

Awards

• Prize of the state capital Innsbruck for artistic creation , 1st prize for sculpture, 1958
• Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the City of Innsbruck, 2005

Works

Egger Lienz Monument in Lienz

• Senseler memorial, Volders, 1957
• Stations of the Cross, chapel of the Dürerstraße retirement home, Innsbruck-Pradl, around 1964
• Gänsebrunnen, Völs , 1979
• Wooden sculpture of St. Petrus Canisius, Petrus Canisius Parish Church , Innsbruck, 1983
• Krötenbrünnl, Botanical Garden of the University of Innsbruck , 1989
• Egger-Lienz monument on Egger-Lienz-Platz, Lienz, 1996

literature

• Hafner, Siegfried . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 352 .

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Hafner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the Tyrolean daily newspaper
2. ↑ City of Innsbruck: Prize of the state capital Innsbruck for artistic creation (PDF; 197 kB)
3. ↑ City of Innsbruck: Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture (PDF; 306 kB)
4. ↑ Beinsteiner-Krall, Schmid-Pittl: War memorial, Senselerdenkmal. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 15, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Frick, Schmid-Pittl: Laufbrunnen, Gänsebrunnen, Gänselieslbrunnen. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 15, 2018 . 
6. ^ Fingernagel-Grüll, Wiesauer: Monument to Albin Egger-Lienz, Egger-Lienz Monument. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 15, 2018 .