Hans Adametz (17 August 1896 – 26 September 1966) was an Austrian
ceramist
Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Whil ...
, sculptor and art educator.
Life
Born in Vienna,
Adametz attended the Ceramic College in
Znojmo
Znojmo (; german: Znaim) is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. Znojmo is the historical and cultural centre of southwestern Moravia and the second most populated town in the South Moravian R ...
and studied with
Oskar Strnad
Oskar Strnad (26 October 1879 – 3 September 1935) 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 Sc ...
and
Michael Powolny
Michael Powolny (18 September 1871 – 4 January 1954) was an Austrian sculptor, medallist, ceramist, designer, and teacher.
Powolny was born in Judenburg. He was trained at Tonindustrie in Znaim, and from 1894 to 1901 in the Wiener Kunstgewerbesc ...
at the
University of Applied Arts Vienna. He attended further training courses at the Gmunden Ceramic Workshops and at Wienerberg. He worked for the . After teaching in
Wiener Neustadt and
Mödling
Mödling () is the capital of the Austrian Mödling (district), district of the same name located approximately 14 km south of Vienna.
Mödling lies in Lower Austria's industrial zone (Industrieviertel). The Mödlingbach, a brook which rises ...
, he was appointed to the
HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule in Graz in 1922. He was a professor and art ceramist at the State College of Clay Industry in Znojmo.
He was also a
lecturer
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at the
Technical University of Graz
Graz University of Technology (german: link=no, Technische Universität Graz, short ''TU Graz'') is one of five universities in Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria and is the oldest science and technology research ...
.
Adametz was a board member of the .
Adametz died in Graz at the age of 70.
Students
*
Franz Josef Altenburg
Franz Josef Georg Clemens Maria Leopold Salvator, Prince of Altenburg (15 March 1941 – 18 August 2021) was an Austrian ceramicist and sculptor. He was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine ( Austria-Tuscany branch). He was regarded as a l ...
Exhibitions
Source:
Solo exhibitions
* Vienna
** 1956 (with W. Berg);
** 1962 (with A. Wahl and A. Birstinger)
* 1968 Graz, Joanneum (cat., 98 works)
Group exhibitions
* Graz, partly annually since 1926, Werkbund and Secession
* 1923, '27, '28, '53, '55 Vienna, Museum of Applied Arts
* 1924 Stuttgart: The form
* 1925 Paris, boarding school. Arts and crafts exhibition
* 1927 Berlin, German Ceramic Society
* 1928 Cologne, Pressa
* 1930 Stockholm, applied arts
* 1930 Warsaw, Austrian exhibition
* 1933 Milan, Triennale
* 1934 London, Austrian exhibition
* 1935 Brussels, world exhibition
* 1942 Strasbourg
* 1958 Passau: European Weeks
* Berlin-West, Werkbund
* 1960 Bremen, Werkbund
* 1961, 1965 Graz: Religions
Works
* 1928: Keramik ''Frühlingsbotin''
* 1933: Figur ''Mohr''.
* 1939: Figur ''Adler'' – Teil des Anschlussdenkmals in Oberschützen.
["Der Anschluss – Burgenland 1938" by Norbert Pingitzer, ]
* Keramiken ''Sitzende Frau, Der Zauberer, Liegende.''
Source:
* Graz
** Joanneum: figurative ceram. Plastic (6 major works).
** Crematorium forecourt: people praying, life-size, around 1930 (removed in 1938).
** Burg Ehrenhof: busts by J. J. Fux and J. B. Fischer von Erlach, Stein, around 1942, executed around 1950.
** Chapel of the seminary: Herz-Jesu-Plastik, 1952/53 (formerly for the Sanatorium of the Cross Sisters).
** Kanhäuser privately owned: several works.
* Seckau, private ownership: Christ.
* Vienna, Austria Gallery: 3 sculptures.
* Faenza, Mus. Internaz. delle Ceramiche.
References
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20th-century Austrian sculptors
Austrian ceramists
1896 births
1966 deaths
Artists from Vienna