Erwin Hauer
Illustration — light-diffusing wall design 3 in church in Liesing, Vienna, Austria, 1952 Erwin Hauer (January 18, 1926, Vienna, Austria - December 22, 2017, Branford, Connecticut) was an Austrian-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna's Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers at Yale. Hauer was an early proponent of modular constructivism and an associate of Norman Carlberg. Like Carlberg, he was especially known for his minimalist, repetitive pieces in the 1950s and 1960s.
Also recorded as Erwin Franz Hauer
Erwin Hauer
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- 1926 · Vienna.
- Died
- 2017 · Branford.
- Nationality
- United States · Austria
- Occupation
- sculptor · university teacher · architect
- Education
- Yale University
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — light-diffusing wall design 3 in church in Liesing, Vienna, Austria, 1952 Erwin Hauer (January 18, 1926, Vienna, Austria - December 22, 2017, Branford, Connecticut) was an Austrian-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna's Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers at Yale. Hauer was an early proponent of modular constructivism and an associate of Norman Carlberg. Like Carlberg, he was especially known for his minimalist, repetitive pieces in the 1950s and 1960s.
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According to ribabookshops.com, Hauer's sculptures are in many public collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of the National Academy of Design, and others. Professor Emeritus at the Yale University School of Art, where he taught from 1957 until 1990. • Illustration — light-diffusing wall design 2 in church in Liesing, Vienna, Austria, 1951 Hauer's design studio in New Haven, Connecticut is well known for the production of sculptural, light-diffusing architectural screens and walls employing Hauer's modular style.
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Erwin Hauer, Durchbrochene Wand Pfarre Liesing
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Wochentagskapelle der Pfarrkirche Liesing. Aufnahme von 1954. Der Architekt der Kirche war Robert Kramreiter, der Künstler, der die durchbrochene Wand an der linken Seite gestaltet hat, ist Erwin Hauer.
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Erwin Hauer was born on 18 January 1926.
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Erwin Hauer died on 22 December 2017.
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