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Hellmuth Marx (17 June 1915 - 1 January 2002) was an Austrian sculptor. == Life == Marx was born in Linz, Austria as the last of five children. His father, Viktor Marx (1870–1928), an officer in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, came from Graz. His mother, Clara Marx née Pichler (1876–1948), came from Oberdrauburg in Carinthia where her family ran a restaurant, "Gasthof Post". Marx attended the Marieninstitut in Graz from 1926 to 1933. This private school was run by Catholic clerics, who were open-minded regarding sports and arts. 1933 Hellmuth Marx took up his studies at the Graz University of Technology. He studied architecture for three and a half years. At the same time he enrolled at the Styrian school of arts with Daniel Pauluzzi, Alfred Wickenburg and Fritz Silberbauer as professors. It is likely that he also attended the master class for wood and stone sculpting run by Wilhelm Gösser, son of the sculptor Hans Brandstetter and creator of several monuments in the city of Graz. 1938/39 Marx was drafted for military service in Klagenfurt and, consequently, sent to the front at the Norwegian Sea. The turmoils of war brought him to Lapland (former province of Finland), Finland and Norway, as far as Narvik. He interrupted his military service from May 1939 to January 1940 to be able to take the entrance exam for the sculptors' school at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He passed and got permission to take a sabbatical for his studies during the winter of 1941/42. According to his nature, Marx largely suppressed the bad impression of the war. But he treasured the beauty of the Nordic landscape and the charm of the girls there and their traditional costumes.〔Sami 1948〕 As presents to his mother and to his aunt he fabricated small wooden figures such as a madonna with the help of hardly anything else but a pocket knife (1942).〔Miniature Madonna 1942〕 After World War II, he returned to Vienna in 1946/47 and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at the master class for sculpting with Josef Müllner. In 1948 he moved to Heiligenblut/Carinthia to live with his mother and two of his sisters. From 1948 on Hellmuth Marx started to work as a freelancer. After years of commuting he moved to Oberdrauburg permanently. He lived and worked in his family's house, the "Stainernhaus"〔Oberdrauburg, "Stainernhaus" and "Gasthof Post" 〕 in the town square. Marx was known as a rather introverted, modest and always polite man.〔Heidi Brunnbauer: Hellmuth Marx. Bildhauer in Oberdrauburg, Leben und Werke , ISBN 978-3-902589-51-4, Edition Weinviertel, 2014, p 9〕 His work seems to mirror his personality rather than call for deserved credit. Maybe he was not duly valued as an artist by his surroundings but rather seen as a craftsman, albeit a very skilled one, who was always willing to help out when asked to repair objects of any material. His contributions to the aesthetics of the town of Oberdrauburg as well as to that of many homes and sacred buildings may speak for themselves. He died on 1 January 2002 in Lienz/East Tyrol. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hellmuth Marx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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