Anton Hanak

Anton Hanak ( born March 22, 1875 in Brno, Old Austria, † January 7, 1934 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor.

Life and work

Hanak studied with Edmund Hellmer at the Vienna Academy and was a member of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte and a founding member of the Austrian Werkbund. Hanak was a teacher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and from 1932 professor at the Vienna Academy. When he learned, among other things Fritz Wotruba and Rudolf Reinhart ( 1897-1975 ).

His works have almost always visionary - symbolic character with some close to Expressionism, for example, the last man of 1917 or The Burning Man of 1922.

He created the sculptural jewelry for several buildings Josef Hoffmann (including Skywa Villa, Cottage Primavesi country road ) as well as in the 1920s residential buildings for the city of Vienna. He wrote numerous portrait busts and monuments, including the war memorial erected in 1925 " Mother of Sorrows " in the Viennese central cemetery, and the bust of Victor Adler for the Republic monument.

Anton Hanak died on 7 January 1934, and is in an honorary dedicated grave in the cemetery Hietzinger (Group 5, Number 120) buried. In the 14th district of Vienna Penzing the Hanakgasse was named after him.

In Langenzersdorf, Lower Austria, located in the building complex of museums Langenzersdorfer the Hanak Museum, exclusively dedicated to Anton Hanak work.

Student

Among Hanak students Fritz Wotruba (between 1926-1928 ), Angela city mansion ( 1917-1921 ), Adolf Treberer - Treberspurg ( 1929-1934 ), Heinz Leinfellner ( 1932-1934 ), Gustav Resatz, Hilde Uray ( 1923-1924 ) Franz Hagenauer, Ilse Pompe low -circulation, Jacob Adlhart (1921-1923) and Hans Baier.