Carry Hauser
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Carry Hauser, born Carl Maria Hauser (16 February 1895–28 October 1985), was an Austrian painter, stage set designer and poet.
. He then began his career as a painter, illustrator, theatrical designer and author, which was interrupted by World War I, for military service in which he volunteered in 1914. His war experiences made him a pacifist.
After the war he returned to Vienna, where among others he met Franz Theodor Csokor
, for whose play Die rote Straße ("THe Red Street") he designed the set in 1918. In the same year the first comprehensive exhibition of his work was held, in the museum at Troppau, and another was arranged for him by Arthur Roessler, although his earlier works had been lost during the war and could not be exhibited. He became still better-known in 1919 through his portfolio Die Insel ("The Island").
From 1919 to 1922 Hauser was a leading member of the artists' group Freie Bewegung ("Free Movement"), and also belonged to the artists' society Der Fels
("The Rock") while he lived for a time in Passau
. From 1925 to 1938 he was a member of another artists' group, the Hagenbund
, of which he was president in 1927/28. In the theatrical world he was vice-president of the Vienna Theatre Guild (Wiener Theatergilde). During the 1930s in the time of the Ständestaat he was active in the Patriotic Front
(Vaterländische Front).
After the Anschluss
of 1938, Hauser, because of his political stance, was banned by the National Socialists from working and exhibiting. In 1939 he was given an appointment in the art school of Melbourne
but was prevented from taking it up by the outbreak of World War II. His wife, Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (1894–1953), to whom he had been married since 1922, was of Jewish origin and emigrated to the Netherlands, where she managed to survive the war. Hauser went into exile in Switzerland, where he wrote Eine Geschichte vom verlorenen Sohn (1941, privately published 1945), the novel Zwischen gestern und morgen (1945) and the fairytale Maler, Tod und Jungfrau (1946).
In 1947 Hauser and his wife returned to Vienna and took part in the reconstruction. In 1952 he became General Secretary of the Austrian PEN Club, and later its vice-president, which he remained until 1972. He was also a council member of the organisation Aktion gegen Antisemitismus ("Action Against Antisemitism") and was involved in the revival of the Berufsvereinigung der bildenden Künstler Österreichs ("Professional Union of the Fine Artists of Austria"), of which he was later vice-president.
He died in 1985 in Rekawinkel. He is buried in a grave of honour in the cemetery at Hietzing
.
and the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
. His activity as a set designer included works for the Burgtheater
. He was also prolific as a book and book-cover illustrator. His earlier works were related to those of - for example - George Grosz
, Otto Dix
or Ludwig Meidner
, but by the end of the 1920s he had developed his own style, combining features from both Neue Sachlichkeit and Expressionism
.
His best-known works include:
Dictionary entries
Life
Carry Hauser was born in Vienna as Carl Maria Hauser into the family of a civil servant. He was educated at the Schottengymnasium and the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, after which he studied at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule under, among others, Adolf Michael Boehm, Anton von Kenner, Alfred Roller and Oskar StrnadOskar Strnad
Oskar Strnad was an Austrian architect, sculptor, designer and set designer for films and theatres. Together with Josef Frank he was instrumental in creating the distinctive character of the Wiener Schule der Architektur...
. He then began his career as a painter, illustrator, theatrical designer and author, which was interrupted by World War I, for military service in which he volunteered in 1914. His war experiences made him a pacifist.
After the war he returned to Vienna, where among others he met Franz Theodor Csokor
Franz Theodor Csokor
Franz Theodor Csokor was an Austrian author and dramatist, particularly well-known for his Expressionist dramas. His most successful and best-known piece is 3. November 1918, about the downfall of the K. u. k. monarchy...
, for whose play Die rote Straße ("THe Red Street") he designed the set in 1918. In the same year the first comprehensive exhibition of his work was held, in the museum at Troppau, and another was arranged for him by Arthur Roessler, although his earlier works had been lost during the war and could not be exhibited. He became still better-known in 1919 through his portfolio Die Insel ("The Island").
From 1919 to 1922 Hauser was a leading member of the artists' group Freie Bewegung ("Free Movement"), and also belonged to the artists' society Der Fels
Der Fels
Der Fels was group of German Expressionist artists that existed from around 1920 to 1927.-History:The group's origins lay in the meeting of Franz Bronstert, Fritz Fuhrken and Georg Philipp Wörlen in a World War I prisoner of war camp in Ripon, England. Other members of the group were Reinhard...
("The Rock") while he lived for a time in Passau
Passau
Passau is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the Dreiflüssestadt or "City of Three Rivers," because the Danube is joined at Passau by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north....
. From 1925 to 1938 he was a member of another artists' group, the Hagenbund
Hagenbund
Der Hagenbund or Künstlerbund Hagen was a group of Austrian artists that formed in 1899.The group's name derived from the name Herr Hagen, the proprietor of an inn in Vienna which they frequented....
, of which he was president in 1927/28. In the theatrical world he was vice-president of the Vienna Theatre Guild (Wiener Theatergilde). During the 1930s in the time of the Ständestaat he was active in the Patriotic Front
Fatherland's Front (Austria)
The Vaterländische Front was a right-wing, austrofascist Austrian political party. It was founded in 1933 by Engelbert Dollfuss to collect all "loyal Austrians" under one banner...
(Vaterländische Front).
After the Anschluss
Anschluss
The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....
of 1938, Hauser, because of his political stance, was banned by the National Socialists from working and exhibiting. In 1939 he was given an appointment in the art school of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
but was prevented from taking it up by the outbreak of World War II. His wife, Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (1894–1953), to whom he had been married since 1922, was of Jewish origin and emigrated to the Netherlands, where she managed to survive the war. Hauser went into exile in Switzerland, where he wrote Eine Geschichte vom verlorenen Sohn (1941, privately published 1945), the novel Zwischen gestern und morgen (1945) and the fairytale Maler, Tod und Jungfrau (1946).
In 1947 Hauser and his wife returned to Vienna and took part in the reconstruction. In 1952 he became General Secretary of the Austrian PEN Club, and later its vice-president, which he remained until 1972. He was also a council member of the organisation Aktion gegen Antisemitismus ("Action Against Antisemitism") and was involved in the revival of the Berufsvereinigung der bildenden Künstler Österreichs ("Professional Union of the Fine Artists of Austria"), of which he was later vice-president.
He died in 1985 in Rekawinkel. He is buried in a grave of honour in the cemetery at Hietzing
Hietzing
Hietzing is the 13th municipal District of Vienna . It is located west of the central districts, west of Meidling...
.
Awards
- 1929: Silver Medal of the International Exhibition in BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
- 1936: awarded the title "Professor"
- 1936: Knight's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit (Ritterkreuz des Österreichischen Verdienstordens)
- 1949: Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Art
- 1985: Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna (Ehrenring der Stadt Wien)
Publications
- Buch der Träume. Published by the artists' group Der FelsDer FelsDer Fels was group of German Expressionist artists that existed from around 1920 to 1927.-History:The group's origins lay in the meeting of Franz Bronstert, Fritz Fuhrken and Georg Philipp Wörlen in a World War I prisoner of war camp in Ripon, England. Other members of the group were Reinhard...
, Passau 1922.
2nd edition. Galerie Pabst, Vienna/Munich 1976. - with Robert HaasRobert Haas (musicologist)Robert Maria Haas Austrian musicologist.At the beginning of his career with the Austrian national library, Haas was mostly interested in Baroque and Classical music...
: Ein Tischzucht. Hanns Sachs. Friedrich Siegel Druck, Vienna 1922. - with Georg Philipp WörlenGeorg Philipp WörlenGeorg Philipp Wörlen was a German painter, particularly associated with Passau, Bavaria, Germany.- Life :...
: Köpfe. Published by the artists' group Der Fels, Passau 1923. - with Georg Philipp Wörlen: Heilige. Published by the artists' group Der Fels, Passau 1923.
- Illustrations for Else FeldmannElse FeldmannElse Feldmann was an Austrian writer, playwright, poet, socialist journalist, and victim of the Holocaust....
's serialised novel Der Leib der Mutter in the Arbeiter-ZeitungArbeiter-Zeitung (Vienna)For the Chicago anarchist newspaper, see Arbeiter-Zeitung The Arbeiter-Zeitung was started as a Socialist newspaper on July 12, 1889 by Victor Adler. The paper was banned in 1934 after the Feb. 13 issue , but reappeared on Aug...
, Vienna 1924. - Von Kunst und Künstlern in Österreich. Heimat-Verlag, Brixlegg 1938.
- Dalmatinisches Skizzenbuch. Hans Deutsch, Vienna 1962.
- with Erich Fritzbauer, Axl Leskoschek: Die einen und die andern. Bilanz einer Jahrzehntwende. Edition Graphischer Zirkel, Vienna 1981.
- with Erich Fritzbauer: Eins in des andern Spur. Edition Graphischer Zirkel, Vienna 1985.
Works
His versatile oeuvre as a painter of portraits, genre works, history paintings and landscapes and as a designer is represented in the collections of the Wien Museum, the AlbertinaAlbertina
The Albertina is a museum in Vienna, Austria, containing the world's best collection of old master prints and drawings.Albertina, a feminine adjectival form of Albert , may also refer to:...
and the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria.The art collection includes masterpieces from the Middle Ages and Baroque until the 21st century, though it focuses on Austrian painters from the Fin de Siècle and Art Nouveau period...
. His activity as a set designer included works for the Burgtheater
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...
. He was also prolific as a book and book-cover illustrator. His earlier works were related to those of - for example - George Grosz
George Grosz
Georg Ehrenfried Groß was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s...
, Otto Dix
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.-Early life and...
or Ludwig Meidner
Ludwig Meidner
Ludwig Meidner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker born in Bernstadt, Silesia. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but the apprenticeship was not completed. He studied at the Royal School of Art in Breslau and, from 1906-07 at the Julien and Cormon Academies in Paris where he met...
, but by the end of the 1920s he had developed his own style, combining features from both Neue Sachlichkeit and Expressionism
Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...
.
His best-known works include:
- Der Judaskuss, oil, 1923
- Fastenbild in the church of AlbrechtsbergAlbrechtsberg an der Großen KremsAlbrechtsberg an der Großen Krems is a town in the district of Krems-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria....
bei Krems - Frescoes on the Simplon PassSimplon PassSimplon Pass is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland. It connects Brig in the canton of Valais with Domodossola in Piedmont . The pass itself and the villages on each side of it, such as Gondo, are in Switzerland...
- Mosaics in the Theresienbad, Vienna, 1964
- PietàPietàThe Pietà is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles of the Life of Christ...
in the Am Schöpfwerk ChurchAm Schöpfwerk ChurchAm Schöpfwerk Church is a Roman Catholic parish church, dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, and is the most recently built church in Meidling, the 12th district of Vienna, Austria.- Description :...
, about 1980
Stage set designs
- Die Rote Straße (Franz Theodor CsokorFranz Theodor CsokorFranz Theodor Csokor was an Austrian author and dramatist, particularly well-known for his Expressionist dramas. His most successful and best-known piece is 3. November 1918, about the downfall of the K. u. k. monarchy...
), National Theatre, BrünnBrunnBrunn or Brünn may refer to:Places* Brünn, the German form of the Czech city Brno* Brunn, Upper Palatinate, a town in Bavaria, Germany* Brunn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany... - WozzeckWoyzeckWoyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...
(Georg BüchnerGeorg BüchnerKarl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...
), Raimundtheater, Vienna - Gesellschaft der Menschenrechte (Franz Theodor Csokor), BurgtheaterBurgtheaterThe Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...
, Vienna - The Constant Prince (Pedro CalderonPedro Calderón de la BarcaPedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca , was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest...
), Burgtheater, Vienna
Sources and references
- Oswald Oberhuber: Carry Hauser zum 90. Geburtstag. Eine Rehabilitation. Hochschule für die Angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna 1985.
- Gabriele Koller, Gloria Withalm: Die Vertreibung des Geistigen aus Österreich. Zur Kulturpolitik des Nationalsozialismus. Exhibition catalague 1985 Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank, Vienna, 1986 Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum. Publ: Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank Wien, Vienna 1985, pp. 130f.
- Gerwald Sonnberger, Franz X. Hofer, Annerose Riedel (eds.): Carry Hauser - Georg Philipp Wörlen, Andreas-Haller-Verlag, Passau 1988, ISBN 3-88849-991-7
- Erika Patka: Carry Hauser 1895–1985. Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition held 1989 in the Women's Baths, Baden bei WienBaden bei Wien-Points of interest:The town offers several parks and a picturesque surrounding, of which the most frequented is the Helenental valley. Not far from Baden, the valley is crossed by a widespread aqueduct of the Vienna waterworks...
, Niederösterreich-Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kultur, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-900933-00-6
Dictionary entries
- Österreicher der Gegenwart. Lexikon schöpferischer und schaffender Zeitgenossen. Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1951, p. 104.
- Hans Vollmer (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. Vol. 2. Seemann, Leipzig 1955. Reprinted dtv, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-05909-5, p. 392.
- Heinrich Fuchs: Die österreichischen Maler. Die Geburtsjahrgänge 1881–1900. Self-published, Vienna 1976, vol. 1, pp.K92f.
- Walter Kleindel: Das große Buch der Österreicher. 4500 Personendarstellungen in Wort und Bild. Namen, Daten, Fakten. With Hans Veigl. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-218-00455-1, p. 179.
- Isabella Ackerl, Friedrich Weissensteiner: Personenlexikon der Ersten und Zweiten Republik. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-8000-3464-6, p. 167.
- Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 (vol. 3) pp. 88f.
External links
- Er war ein großer Humanist Obituary in the Arbeiter-Zeitung of 29 October 1985 (p. 36)
- Der Judaskuss in the collections of the Oesterreichische NationalbankOesterreichische NationalbankThe Oesterreichische Nationalbank is the central bank of the Republic of Austria and, as such, an integral part of both the European System of Central Banks and the Eurozone. In the public interest, the OeNB contributes to monetary and economic policy decision-making in Austria and in the Euro area...
- http://www.mmk-passau.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=119Portrait of Carry Hauser, 1921, by Georg Philipp WörlenGeorg Philipp WörlenGeorg Philipp Wörlen was a German painter, particularly associated with Passau, Bavaria, Germany.- Life :...
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