!!!Hrdli%C4%8Dka, Alfred

b. Vienna, Feb. 27, 1928, sculptor and graphic artist. 1946-1957 
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with A. P.  Guetersloh, 
J.  Dobrowsky und F.  Wotruba. In spite of the general trend towards 
abstract art H. has consistently kept his pictorial-expressive style 
and has repeatedly provoked public discussions with his political 
comments and social criticism. In 1964 he represented Austria at the 
Biennale in Venice. Professor in Stuttgart (1971-1973, 1975-1986), 
Hamburg (1973-1975), Berlin (1986-1989) and Vienna (from 1989). In the 
years 1988-1991 H. erected the Memorial against War and Fascism at the 
Vienna Albertinaplatz in the first district, on the site of the 
Philipphof, which had been destroyed in 1945.

!Works
Gekreuzigter, 1959; Portraet O. Kokoschka, 1963; bust of Dr. 
Karl Renner, Vienna, 1967; monument to F. Engels, Wuppertal 1981; 
bronze frieze about the serial killer F. Haarmann in Hannover, 1991; 
memorials against War and Fascism in Hamburg and Vienna. - Etching 
cycles: Martha Beck, 1963; Die Schlacht auf den Katalaunischen 
Feldern, 1964; Haarmann, 1965/66; Randolectil, 1968.

!Literature
M. Lewin (editor), A. H., Das Gesamtwerk, 3 vols., 
1987-1992; K. Klemp (ed.), A. H. Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik 
1945-1997, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1997.


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