KARL HAUK* ( Klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 Vienna )

KARL HAUK* ( Klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 Vienna )
Nude in Croatian landscape
oil/cardboard 56,1 x 37,1 cm
monogram stamp HK

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 3000 - 5000
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 3000

Austrian artist of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. Main representative of the New Objectivity, Expressionism and Social Critical Realism. Grew up in Linz in Upper Austria, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Alois Delug, Karl Sterrer and Josef Jungwirth. Member of the Hagenbund and the Maerz artists' association. Besides oil paintings, drawings and watercolors, created many works for public spaces, so-called Kunst am Bau projects. In 1928 frescoes for the Chamber of Labor in Linz, 1936 frescoes for the main train station in Linz and glass windows for the parish church in Sandleiten in Vienna. Friend of Clemens Holzmeister. Important representative of Christian art, in addition to church windows and mosaics, numerous religious paintings and watercolors. Created figure paintings, mosaics, frescoes and landscapes with motifs from the Salzkammergut around the Attersee. Hauk studied from 1918 to 1923 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Jungwirth, Sterrer and Delug and exhibited in 1920 for the first time as part of a joint exhibition of the association of artists and art lovers of the "Ring" in Linz. From 1923 on Hauk commuted between Linz and Vienna and worked as a freelance artist. He repeatedly exhibited at the Vienna Secession, the Hagenbund and the Maerz Artists' Association, of which he was a member. From 1927 to 1938 Hauk was a member of the Hagenbund and was later able to work and exhibit in spite of the Nazi regime. Between 1943 and 1945 he was drafted into military service. In 1947 he took over the directorship of the art school in Linz and led a master class for painting until 1951. He exhibited regularly in Vienna and Linz in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1959, the Upper Austrian State Museum organized the collective exhibition "Hauk-Dimmel-Hofmann" with over 40 of Hauk's works. After the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in Linz and Vienna. Further artists and styles: New Objectivity, portrait, realism, expressionism, nude, landscape, watercolour, oil painting, lithography, MAERZ, Franz Sedlacek, Alfred Kubin, Franz von Zülow, Richard Serra, Daniel Spoerri, Margret Bilder, Hans Joachim Breustedt, Valie Export, Karl Hauk, Gottfried Höllwarth, Peter Huemer, Thomas Kröswang, Anton Peschka, Carl Anton Reichel, Alois Riedl, Günther Selichar, Norbert Trawöger, Walter Vopava, Aloys Wach, Manfred Wakolbinger, Othmar Zechyr. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marz, Gabriele Münter, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Brücke, Cuno Amiet, Max Pechstein, Alexei von Jawlensky, August Macke, Paul Klee, Der blaue Reiter. Friedrich Aduatz, Franz Bronstert, Marc Chagall, Lyonel Feininger, Fritz Fuhrken, Richard Gerstl, Anna Lesznai, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Max Oppenheimer, Marianne von Werefkin, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. Neue Sachlichkeit, Lilly Pollatschek, Josef Gassler, Karl Hauk, Rudolf Dischinger, Otto Dix, Dodo Dörte Clara Wolff, August Wilhelm Dressler, Conrad Felixmüller, George Grosz, Sergius Pauser, Gerta Overbeck, Franz Radziwill, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Franz Sedlacek, Franz Sikora, Rudolf Wacker, Albert Birkle, Max Beckmann, Albin Egger-Lienz, Alfons Walde, Herbert Reyl-Hanisch, Josef Floch, Carry Hauser, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Lois Pregartbauer, Georg Jung, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. Akademie der bildenden Künste, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Richard Gerstl, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Egon Schiele, Paul Kassecker, Hans Kneslm Heinz Leinfellner, Rudolf Hausner, Joannis Avramidis, Maximilian Melcher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hollegha, Anton Lehmden, Josef Mikl, Ernst Fuchs, Armin Pramstaller, Cornelius Kolig, Meina Schellander, Franz West, Gottfried Helnwein, Manfred Deix, Heimo Zobernig, Gunter Damisch, Daniel Richter, Monica Bonvicini, dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Willy Eisenschitz

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