Draft:Rudolf Reinhart
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Rudolf Reinhart | |
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| Born | January 20, 1897 Linz, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | November 10, 1975 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Education | University of Applied Arts Vienna |
| Known for | Sheet-metal sculpture (Blechplastik) |
Rudolf Reinhart (20 January 1897 – 10 November 1975) was an Austrian sculptor and metal artist noted for figurative works in hammered and constructed sheet metal (Blechplastik). He trained in Vienna and worked mainly in Tyrol and Salzburg, where many of his public sculptures and architectural commissions remain visible.[1]
Life and education
[edit]Reinhart was born in Linz and trained first as a tinsmith before studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna (today the University of Applied Arts Vienna) under Josef Hoffmann and Anton Hanak.[1] He later taught metalworking in Salzburg; in January 1941 he is recorded as head of the metalworking class at the “Meisterschule des deutschen Handwerks” attached to the State Trade School.[2]
Work and style
[edit]Reinhart specialised in constructed and driven sheet-metal sculpture in copper, brass and related alloys, typically figurative and often with stylised drapery. His public commissions include the copper figure of Archduke Sigmund (1933) on the Sigmundsbrunnen at the Unterer Stadtplatz in Hall in Tirol,[3] and a copper heraldic lion bearing the Salzburg arms on the roofline of the former Kleines Festspielhaus (now the House for Mozart), attributed to Reinhart and connected with Clemens Holzmeister’s 1937–38 rebuilding.[4][5]
Sculptural street signs in Hall in Tirol
[edit]From the late 1950s Reinhart created a coherent series of sculptural street signs for the old town of Hall in Tirol. Between about 1958 and 1972 he produced hammered sheet-metal figures mounted above or beside street-name plates, each referring to the name or history of the lane. Surviving examples include:
- St George and the Dragon – hammered copper figure of the saint on horseback, in the Schulgasse;
- an angel with trumpet in the Pfarrgasse;
- a rose emblem in the Rosengasse;
- a heraldic lion in the Wallpachgasse;
- a Star of Bethlehem in the Krippgasse;
- a salt-miner with pick and barrel in the Salzgässchen / Unterer Stadtplatz; and
- several trade masks and emblems (blacksmith, brewer, musician) around the Oberer Stadtplatz.
Many of these remain in situ and are considered characteristic features of Hall’s visual identity.[6][1]
Diana-Klause (Gasthaus Goldener Löwe, Hall in Tirol)
[edit]A permanent display of Reinhart’s sculptures survives in the vaulted restaurant and bar rooms of the Gasthaus Goldener Löwe on the Oberer Stadtplatz in Hall in Tirol. Designed by Reinhart together with innkeeper Franz Steinmayr in the 1950s, the rooms integrate his hammered-metal figures and reliefs into the stone-arched architecture. Known as the Diana-Klause (literally “Diana’s chamber” – from the German Klause, meaning a vaulted grotto-like chamber or hermitage),
- ^ a b c Reinhart, Rudolf (1975). Rudolf der Metallbildhauer. Hall in Tirol: Selbstverlag.
- ^ "Die Stadt Salzburg im Jahr 1941 – Zeitungsdokumentation" (PDF). Stadt Salzburg. 2017. p. 10. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
- ^ "Sigmundsbrunnen – Hall in Tirol". Stadt Hall in Tirol. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
- ^ "Rudolf Reinhart". Salzburgwiki. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
- ^ "House for Mozart / Small Festival Hall – History". Theatre Architecture in Europe. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
- ^ "Hall erzählt Geschichte(n) – Teil III". Hall-Wattens Tourismus. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2025.