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'''Hansl Bock''' (22 September 1893 as ''Johanna Susanne Maria Vogel'' in [[Munich]] - 7 January 1973 in [[Freising]]) was a German painter. She belonged to the [[Lost Generation (Germany)|Lost Generation]] of art in Germany.

== Life ==
Hansl Bock was the daughter of the painter Johanna Merre and stepdaughter of the painter [[Franz Hienl-Merre]], who had studied under [[Adolf Münzer]], and through his influence found access to the [[Scholle]] artists' association. She received further artistic influences from her husband [[Ludwig Bock]] and the painter [[Julius Seyler]], under whom she studied. Educational trips were made to Italy and Spain, and she also spent time in Strasbourg and Paris, where she had her own [[studio]] in 1924. She had her first [[exhibition]] in 1927, after which she became a member of the [[Juryfreie Kunstausstellung]], and her last exhibition was in 1935. As with so many of the lost generation, her work was interrupted, if not completely destroyed, by the war years. Bock was never able to repeat her early successes as a painter after the end of the war.

== Work ==
Her style was initially influenced by her family, and later, after her travels in Europe, by [[Maurice Utrillo]], [[Henri Matisse]] and [[Paul Gauguin]]. She was very much influenced by the fading [[Expressionism]], and also by [[Naïve art]]. Her paintings are strongly kept in pure colours, rich in contrast. In her painting technique, she prefers the [[impasto]] application, which makes the paintings appear almost relief-like, with colours spontaneously applied with a nervous hand, with sometimes hard dissonant breaks and transitions. The pronounced figurative and perspective distortion of her surviving works suggest echoes of [[Surrealism]] and residual influences of [[Dadaism]].

== Further reading ==
* ''Galerie Bernd Dürr: Kunst und Künstler in Dachau und im Amperland, 1890-1930.'' 167 short biographies of artists with stylistic features and introductory text by Bernd Dürr, Munich 1982. {{ISBN|3-927872-05-9}}
* ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL). Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker''. Munich and Leipzig, {{ISBN|3-598-22740-X}}

== Other websites ==
* [http://www.verschollene-generation.de/kuenstler/hansl_bock/hansl_bock.html Hansl Bock on the Web]
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/6795 Hansl Bock at Artnet]

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