Hans Stangl

München-based German sculptor Hans Stangl received an Honorable Mention at the 1936 Art Competitions in Berlin for his work Female Swimmer in the category Sculpturing, Statues. The cement statue Schwimmerin (Female swimmer) was presented for the first time as Badende (Bathing female) at the German Art Exhibition in 1930. He created some outstanding sculptures for public urban spaces in München. He is best known for the Standing Woman (1932) in the garden of the Lenbachhaus in Luisenstrasse, the Female Figure in the spring plants at the Isar, the Fountain with Bronze Geese on the Winthirplatz and Bather in Ungerbad. His son Otto became a well-known art dealer and gallery owner. Otto was also the initiator of the foundation of the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See.

Until 1917 Hans Stangl studied at the Art Academy in München and participated in the exhibitions of the Munich Secession since 1920. Previously a scholarship holder himself, from 1939 until the armistice in Italy in 1943, he headed the German Academy “Villa Massimo” in Roma. He was a freelance employee of the porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal in the 1950s.