!!!Hoke, Giselbert

b. Varnsdorf, Czech Republic (then Warnsdorf), Sept. 12, 1927, painter 
and graphic artist. From 1946 studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine 
Arts. 1947 had a studio together with K.  Absolon and A. Karger in 
Vienna, developed a colourful and figurative style of painting. In 
1956 he won the competition to decorate the central station at 
Klagenfurt and the frescoes he produced triggered off heated artistic 
debates. 1974-1995 head of the Institute of Artistic Design at the 
University of Technology in Graz. In 1961 Hoke bought the castle of 
Schloss Saager in the municipality of Grafenstein in Carinthia, where 
his studio and workshops are located.

!Works
Frescoes: Vienna State Opera, railway station Klagenfurt, 
Christkoenigskirche Gloggnitz, Paedagogische Akademie of the Diocese 
in Linz. - Glass paintings: New Matzleinsdorfer Kirche in 
Vienna´s 5%%sup th/%  district, Crematorium Vienna-Simmering, 
Bartholomaeuskirche Cologne-Bickendorf, 12-Apostel-Kirche Augsburg, 
Liebfrauenkirche Frankfurt-Oberursel. - Enamel paintings: UNO-City 
Vienna, Werkhaus Saager, Fortress Montalcino (Italy). Tapestries, 
gouaches, studies of women, landscape cycles.

!Literature
W. Schmied, G. H., 1983; G. H. Ein Oesterreicher 
in Europa, 1994.


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