!!!Boeckl, Herbert

b. Klagenfurt (Carinthia), June 3, 1894, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 20, 1966, painter, self-taught, after 1935 taught at 
the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, teacher of major Austrian painters. 
In his early work developed an independent and strongly expressive 
style by applying paint thickly; in his middle period he 
characteristically gave different colours specific functions in his 
dealings with figurative themes and landscapes. B.'s painting after 
1945 was an autonomous answer to international abstract painting; in 
this later phase the results of B.'s long-standing interest in 
Cezanne's work also became obvious. Austrian State Prize 1934, 
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1964.

!Works
Oil paintings: Liegender Akt, 1919; Gruppe am Waldrand, 1920; 
Grosse sizilian. Landschaft, 1924; Die Anatomie, 1931; Erzberg I, 
1942; Das Leben des hl. Joseph von Copertino, 1950-1958. - After 1945 
abstract aquarelles (Metamorphose, 1945). - Religious frescoes in 
Maria Saal, 1925; Mogersdorf altar, triptych, 1934-1945; frescoes in 
the chapel of Seckau, 1952-1960. - Tapestries in the Wiener 
Stadthalle, 1957 and in the Salzburg Festspielhaus, 1959.

!Literature
G. Frodl, H. B., 1976; I. Brugger and K. A. Schroeder 
(eds.), H. B., exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1994.



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