Wilhelm Frass

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Wilhelm Frass (born May 29, 1886 in St. Pölten , † November 1, 1968 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor and medalist .

Life

Lying soldier in the crypt in the Hero's Gate
Vienna Central Cemetery - grave of Wilhelm Frass

Frass was the son of the director of the St. Pölten gas works , his brother was the architect Rudolf Frass . The brothers attended the State Trade School in Vienna and then the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where Wilhelm Frass studied with Hans Bitterlich and Edmund von Hellmer . In the First World War , Frass fought as an Austro-Hungarian infantry officer with the Banat Swabians .

Frass lived and worked in one of the state studios in Vienna's Krieau . During the corporate state dictatorship from 1934 to 1938 he was President of the Artists' Association of Austrian Sculptors and received the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1936 . He was a busy artist during Austrofascism , but at the same time an illegal member of the NSDAP since 1933 .

After Austria's "annexation" to the German Reich , Frass was head of the university class at the Art and Fashion School of the City of Vienna from 1938 to 1945 and, under Hanns Blaschke, advisor for sculpture in the cultural office. In 1939 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . He received major orders for connection monuments, busts of Hitler and allegorical sculptures that glorified the Nazi regime.

After 1945, Frass was classified as “less polluted” during the denazification process and, at the instigation of the architect Josef Hoffmann, reintegrated into the art scene. From 1948 to 1950 he was a member of the Vienna Secession . Frass was given an honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery , but this status was revoked in 2012.

In the memorial of the dead soldier in the crypt on Heldenplatz in Vienna, one suspected for a long time a letter of homage from Frass to National Socialism, which he mentioned in a letter to the art historian Karl Hareiter as a highly treasonable document . This letter of homage was actually found in 2012. At the same time, a pacifist letter from the sculptor Alfons Riedel , at the time an employee of Frass, was found. The two documents were handed over to the Vienna Army History Museum on July 9, 2013 , where they are exhibited as a facsimile in the Republic and Dictatorship room above a showcase with a model of the castle gate and the brass case in which the letters were hidden.

Column of joy in the Sandleitenhof
"Fliegerdenkmal" in Linz on the Römerberg
“Fruchtträgerin” community building at Pragerstrasse / Anton Dengler Gasse
“Worker with hammer” in the municipal housing estate at Werndlgasse 14-18

The Frass estate is in the St. Pölten City Archives.

Works

Lower Austria

  • Böheimkirchen: 1922 war memorial hl. Sebastian, limestone
  • Melk : War memorial
  • in Lilienfeld : bronze sculptures at the secondary school at Castellistraße 8
  • St. Pölten: 1928/29 war memorial , statue on a high square base
  • St. Pölten: 1935: Dollfuss monument on Domplatz, demolished
  • St. Pölten: Schwarz grave monument, main cemetery
  • St. Pölten: 1908: St. Pölten Hospital , administration wing: "The heavy cross"
  • St. Pölten: 1911: Schmid grave monument, main cemetery
  • St. Pölten: Figures "Adalbert and Ottokar", Kremser Gasse 20
  • St. Pölten: wall fountain with a nude boy , ground floor of the Olbrichhaus
  • St. Pölten: 1912: Schubert sculpture on Rathausgasse 2
  • St. Pölten: 1925: Hubert Schnofl stele , Völklplatz
  • St. Pölten: 1923: athlete figures on the building at Rathausplatz 2 / Heßstraße 2–6
  • St. Pölten: Estate of works in the St. Pölten City Museum

Upper Austria

  • Linz : 1929 bronze sculpture of a male figure with raised arms from 1954 on a marble column opposite Römerstrasse 83 (so-called "Fliegerdenkmal")
  • Linz: 1934 frieze at the tobacco factory: three male and one female figure
  • Linz: 1934 bronze ball with a plastic dove above the portal of the Friedenskirche parish church Christkönig
  • Linz: 1936 pioneer monument with architect Alexander Popp
  • Schwertberg : war memorial

Styria

  • Mautern : Dragon Slayer St. Georg, limestone

Vienna

Turkey

  • in Ankara : a seven-meter-high Hygieia carved from limestone at the Hygiene Institute

Awards

literature

  • Hubert Adolph : Wilhelm Frass. A contribution to the understanding of his artistic work , in: Mitteilungen der Österreichische Galerie 15 (1971), pp. 137–175.
  • Mirko Jelusich: Wilhelm Frass. On the master’s 70th birthday , in: Kunst ins Volk. Journal for Friends of the Fine Arts 7 (1956), pp. 37-44.
  • Alfred Markowitz: The sculptor Wilhelm Frass , in: Austrian art. Monthly notebooks for fine arts 1.5 (March 1930), pp. 9–15.
  • Stefan Sienell / Achim Feldmann: The Hans-Horst-Meyer-Medal of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna , in: Münstersche Numismati Zeitung 41.1 (March 2011), pp. 1-10.
  • Karl Strobl: Wilhelm Frass on the 80th birthday , in: Art in the people. Journal for Friends of the Fine Arts 17 (1966), pp. 44-49.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Frass  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephan Koja, Hella Márkus (ed.): Art of the 20th century. Volume 1: AF of 20th Century Art. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 20th Century. Brandstätter, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85447-454-7 , p. 248
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kos (Ed.): Struggle for the city. Politics, art and everyday life around 1930 (= special exhibition of the Wien Museum, Volume 361), Czernin, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7076-0317-0 , p. 241; "Blown up after 75 years", www.sueddeutsche.de, July 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Olga Stieglitz, Gerhard Zeillinger, Hildegunde Suete-Willer: The sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854-1942). Between Ringstrasse, Künstlerhaus and women's art school. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-52203-5 , p. 177.
  4. ↑ a b The outer castle gate as an Austrian hero monument to Peter Diem, undated
  5. ^ Wilhelm Frass in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  6. ↑ Heldendenkmal: Letter of homage in the crypt discovered on Vienna-Online from July 19, 2012.
  7. ↑ Presentation of the results of the investigations in the Vienna crypt at the Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport from July 19, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ National Socialist jubilee from Heldendenkmal handed over to the museum on derstandard.at, accessed on July 10, 2013
  9. ↑ For conservation reasons, the original documents cannot be exhibited, but are kept in the depot of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, see: Finds handed over to Heeresgeschichtliches Museum on science.apa.at, accessed on July 9, 2013
  10. ^ "Heldendenkmal": Finds handed over to the museum at wien.orf.at, accessed on July 9, 2013
  11. ^ Nachlass Wilhelm Frass  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the directory of artistic, scientific and cultural-political bequests in Austria.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / aleph20-prod-acc.obvsg.at  
  12. ↑ "Statues Hither & Thither"
  13. ↑ "Statues Hither & Thither"
  14. ^ Exhibition catalog, City Museum, St. Pölten 1963.
  15. ↑ Manuel Lucca: "Wilhelm Frass - Der Jüngling" Location: Freinberg in Linz YouTube, published October 24, 2011, accessed May 25, 2018. - Video (2:53)
  16. ↑ Commons: Pillar of cheerfulness
  17. ^ Redesign of the crypt at the Vienna Burgtor ORF Vienna, June 17, 2012
  18. ↑ "Statues Hither & Thither" vanderkrogt.net, René & Peter van der Krogt. - Pictures (2016), text on the back: From rare earths and metals, his inquiring mind created the gas incandescent light, the electric osmium lamp, the spark-spraying cerium iron
personal data
SURNAME Frass, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eat, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Poelten , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 1st November 1968
Place of death Vienna , Austria