Walter Habdank

Walter Habdank (born February 5, 1930 in Schweinfurt ; † November 26, 2001 in Berg am Starnberger See ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Walter Habdank was born the son of a Protestant deacon and his wife. Habdank had lived in Munich since he was ten . After graduating from the humanistic Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich , he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1949 to 1953 and studied painting and graphics with Professor Walter Teutsch .

After graduating, Walter Habdank was a freelance artist . There followed several years full of financial bottlenecks and difficulties until his meditative woodcuts , which were distributed nationwide, helped him achieve a breakthrough and quickly made him one of the best-known representatives of Christian art.

From 1979 Walter Habdank lived and worked in Berg on Lake Starnberg .

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Walter Habdank's memorial to the death march of concentration camp prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp at the end of the Second World War through the Würmtal ; Location at the Petersbrunn chapel between Starnberg and Leutstetten

In addition to his popular lithographs and woodcuts, he created landscape paintings in oil and in watercolor , female nudes, still lifes and depictions of flowers and plants. He also drew for a variety of wall paintings and altarpieces.

Wall painting in the foyer and the chapel of the Augustinum senior citizens' residence in Bonn .
A large-format woodcut portrait of Cardinal Joseph Höffner in the foyer of the Collegium Josephinum grammar school in Bonn.
A large-format mural based on the baroque apse paintings in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace in Bayreuth .
The symbolism of the social enterprise Augustinum Group . Its founder Georg Rückert was friends with Habdank.
The Cross of Sorrows in the chapel in the Hofstetten Apostolic House .

Stained glass window in the Franziskus Chapel in Tutzing .

Literature (selection)

Walter Habdank: Habdank woodcuts , Stuttgart 1988
Walter Habdank: Habdank Bible , Augsburg 1980
Johanna Haberer : Master of the human primal gestures , in: The triptych by Walter Habdank in the Simeonskapelle in the Augustinum residential building in Bonn , Bonn o. J.

Web links

Literature by and about Walter Habdank in the catalog of the German National Library
Walter Habdank website

personal data
SURNAME	Habdank, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	5th February 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 2001
Place of death	Berg (Starnberger See)