Hans Plank

Hans Plank ( born March 29, 1925 in Weng im Innkreis, † April 25, 1992 in Braunau am Inn ) was an Austrian artist.

Life

Hans Plank was born in 1925 in Weng im Innkreis - the first of two sons of the master tailor Sebastian Plank and his wife Theresa. Already in elementary school expressed Hans Plank the career aspirations "Academic painter ". In 1941 he received a scholarship from the College of Education in Linz, 1943, he participated just there for the first time at an exhibition of young artists. From 1947 to 1950 Hans Plank worked as an elementary school teacher in Gilgen am Weilhart and Ostermiething.

1950 Hans Plank was "Master Class Gütersloh " included in the at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna after recommendation by Herbert Boeckl; In 1954 he completed his studies with a diploma as an academic painter. In the same year he received the Boeckl Prize and the award from the master class Gütersloh.

After study trips throughout Europe, the artist devoted in the 1960s reinforced the woodcut; later watercolors, oil paintings and stained glass windows. Artistically Hans Plank proved to be heir to a picturesque Expressionism. Coupled had this artistic commitment with a Christian understanding of the world, which obliged the committed artist to a deep human solidarity, as with refugees and workers.

In Innviertel you will find the works of Hans Plank today in very different places, for example in the form of the chapel windows in the private chapel of the old people's home Ostermiething or in the form of cartoons in the old parlor in the host z'Ernsting where Hans Plank often with his friends sat on the root table and has held the day's events as a drawing.

Curriculum vitae

  • Elementary School in Weng, secondary school in brick churches, teacher training institute in Linz
  • 1947-1950 working as an elementary school teacher in Gilgen Mountain, Ostermiething and St. Peter aH
  • 1950-1954 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Herbert Boeckl and AP Gütersloh and in 1963 Warburg Institute in London
  • 1958/59 and 1975 to 1979 teaching at the high school Braunau am Inn
  • 1960 marriage to Dr. Erna Plank, born cell Mayr; three children: Sebastian, Christian, Elisabeth
  • 1967-1970 construction of their own house with a studio in St. Peter am Hart
  • Study Tours: Germany, England, France, Italy, Japan, Yugoslavia, Romania, Scandinavia, Soviet Union, Spain
  • Works: oil paintings, watercolors, woodcuts, drawings, stained glass windows, mosaics, frescos, sgraffito
  • Exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Italy
  • Awards: Boeckl Prize award from the master class Gütersloh, Gold Medal for services to the town of Braunau am Inn, awarded the title of "Professor " by the Federal President, honorary citizenship of the community Weng im Innkreis, Upper Austria. Country's culture prize for painting, Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art

Publications

  • As (ed. ), Johann Baptist Wengler (illustration): Johann Baptist Wengler: a painter of Biedermeier, Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Ried 1966.
  • Expressionism in Austria: Klimt - Schiele - Kokoschka, picture book, Berghaus -Verlag, Ramerding 1981, ISBN 3-7635-0032-4.

Awards

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