Anton Hanak (22 March 1875, Brünn – 7 January 1934, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor and art Professor. His works tend to have a visionary-symbolic character, related to

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Biography

He studied with Edmund von Hellmer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and was associated with the Vienna Secession. He was also a member of the Vienna Werkstätte, as well as having been a founding member of the . In 1913, he became a teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule and, after 1932, a Professor at the Academy. His students included Karl Duldig,''Australian Dictionary of Biography''
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, , , , and Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra. He created decorative sculptures for several buildings designed by the architect, Josef Hoffmann, including the . During the 1920s, he performed similar work for housing developments by the City of Vienna. He also created portrait busts and monuments; notably the "

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" war memorial at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof, and a bust of Victor Adler for the . The final project he worked on involved large sculptures for the " Güven Anıtı" (translated as security or trust - literally, "Confidence Monument") in Ankara, which was proposed and initiated in 1931 by Clemens Holzmeister. It was left unfinished at the time of Hanak's death and was completed by Josef Thorak in 1936. The monument has since been damaged twice; by graffiti during the Gezi Park protests (2013), and by

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during the attempted coup in 2016. He died of a heart attack and was interred at the

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. A street in Vienna's Penzing district is named after him. At the , there is a special area devoted to the work of him and his students.

Sources

* * Hugo Haberfeld: "Der Bildhauer Anton Hanak", In: ''Neues Wiener Journal'', Vol. 27, # 9179, 1919, pgs.5–6
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. * Friedrich Grassegger, Wolfgang Krug: ''Anton Hanak (1875–1934)''. Böhlau, 1997

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanak, Anton Austrian male sculptors Austrian people of Czech descent 1875 births 1934 deaths Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni 20th-century Austrian sculptors Wiener Werkstätte 20th-century Austrian male artists