About me
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After completing my art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, I began to travel the world and search for what seemed to me to be a vital stimulus for my career.
One of the decisive milestones in my development was about to become very close. I visited Marc Chagall, my great role model in terms of color and original expression, in the small town of St. Paul de Vence in southern France. It was spring 1969.
He was in his studio working on the designs for the five enormous stained-glass windows in the cathedral (Frauenmünster) in Zurich. After I stayed in Vence for a few days and delighted him with my daily visits, he offered me the opportunity to assist him in the development of the 11-meter-high windows. I was speechless with joy and was absorbed in transferring his designs from the small-scale onto cardboard to their final full-size dimensions.
Later, I was also able to help in the glassworks with transferring the design to glass and coordinating the many individual components. I was able to absorb inexhaustible creative energy and took it with me on the long journey that still lay ahead of me.
I knew I couldn't linger too long, so I fulfilled a dream: to see the cultural heritage of the Mayans in Yucatan. In a flash, the sculpting instinct in me regained the upper hand, and it stayed that way.
In mid-1973, I began a very fruitful period as an assistant to my great role model, Henry Moore, in his studio north of London. These years were formative for my sculptural work, and I had my hands full trying to break away from the great role model and find my own unique formal language.
Step by step it worked very well.
I am very grateful to my great role models, but over the years I have been able to develop my own artistic expression very well.
Personal :
1949 Born in Vienna
1968 Academy of Fine Arts under Prof. Fritz Wotruba
1969 Semester abroad with Marc Chagall in Saint Paul de Vence
1971-72 Study stays in England, Holland and USA
1975-79 Assistant to Henry Moore in MuchHadham, UK
1982 Study trip to Central and South America and study of pre-Columbian cultures
1988 Training as an art therapist
Exhibitions :
1983 - 92 sculpture exhibitions in Berlin, Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, Oslo and Milan
1993 Winner of the British Sculpture Competition
1994-95 Exhibition in the Federal Republic of Germany, on sculpture, printmaking and coloured glass designs
1999 Salzburg Art Fair, Geneva EUROP ART
2000 Sculpture Symposium Innsbruck, large sculpture "The Four Elements"
2001 Art fairs: Palmsprings, Salzburg, Vienna, Geneva, collaboration with Galerie Arkade, Linz
2002 Art fairs: Innsbruck, ART Bodensee, Geneva, Salzburg, Vienna
2004 Art Fairs London AAF, Berlin
2005 Art Fair ART Innsbruck, Salzburg, ART Bodensee, Kunstforum International Zurich
2005 ART Innsbruck, group exhibition New York, Gallery Hong Kong - fused glass objects, art fairs Salzburg, Bologna, Barcelona
2007 Art Fair ART Innsbruck and Akzenta Graz
2008 Exhibition of Sculptures and Paintings, Sharjah, UAR
2024 Potential Art Fair Gmunden
2024 Anton Bruckner Art Symbosium
Commissioned work :
1983-87 Large sculptures for HSBC and Shell Oil
1988-91 Large sculpture for Telekom Austria
1991-2022 Various large sculptures for private clients
2006 Colored glass, Hong Kong and Dubai, trade fair appearances ART Innsbruck, Brussels and Barcelona
2006 Colored glass hotel furnishings in Hong Kong and Dubai
Workshops / Seminars / Teaching / Lectures:
since 1991 sculpture workshops and seminars Italy, Austria, Switzerland
1996-97 Management training burnout prevention OMV Vienna
1998 - 2022 Lectures throughout Europe
2013 - 2020 Lectures at the University of Vienna and the University of Basel
Major projects
From 2002 - see projects