Hoke, Giselbert

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, Christkönigskirche Gloggnitz, Pädagogische Akademie of the Diocese in Linz. - Glass paintings: New Matzleinsdorfer Kirche in Vienna´s 5^th district, Crematorium Vienna-Simmering, Bartholomäuskirche 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 Österreicher in Europa, 1994.