!!!Hauer, Franz

b. Weissenkirchen in der Wachau (Lower Austria), May 19, 1867, 
d. Vienna, June 5, 1914, restaurant owner, art collector; father of 
Leopold  Hauer. Became landlord of the Griechenbeisl restaurant in 
Vienna in 1897; his son Leopold opened a gallery there in 1960 
("Galerie im Griechenbeisl"); from 1907 F. Hauer was one of the most 
important collectors of modern Austrian art (e.g. A. Egger-Lienz, E. 
Schiele, O. Kokoschka, K. Sterrer, A. Faistauer); the collection was 
auctioned soon after his death.

!Literature
Kuenstler (Sammler) Maezene. Portraet der Familie Hauer, 
exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Krems, 1996.



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