Gerhard Swoboda (painter)
Gerhard Swoboda (born January 24, 1923 in Neubistritz ; † July 11, 1974 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .
Life
Gerhard Swoboda and his family moved to Vienna as early as 1926. After abandoning his medical studies, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1946 , among other things as a master student of the sculptor Fritz Wotruba . Later he turned to painting .
His first solo exhibitions took place in 1949 in the Galerie Würthle and in 1951 in the Wiener Konzerthaus . He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1950 as a sculptor and four years later as a graphic artist. In 1952 he exhibited at the São Paulo Biennale . Gerhard Swoboda was a member of the Art Club , the Vienna Secession and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
plant
Exhibitions
- Participation in numerous exhibitions in Vienna, Venice, Berlin, Antwerp, Rome, Turin, Geneva, Basel, Düsseldorf, Cologne; as part of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism in Tokyo, Philadelphia, Tehran, Ankara, Stambul.
- Solo exhibitions in Vienna, Linz, Regensburg, Hamburg, Bonn, Turin, Basel, Krems.
Collections
- Collection of the Munich Adalbert Stifter Association in the East German Gallery in Regensburg.
literature
- Walter Toman: Thistle people. Poems . Desch, Vienna 1955 - Six drawings by Gerhard Swoboda.
- Fantastic landscape . Exhibition by the Adalbert Stifter Association Munich, 1974.
- Bernhard Peithner-Lichtenfels (Ed.): Swoboda - Metamorphoses . Langen Müller, Vienna 1970.
- 20th century art. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 20th Century . Vol. 4. Brandstätter, Vienna.
- Fantastic realism. Catalog for the exhibition in the Lower Belvedere 2008 . Pages 114 and 239.
- Elfriede Mejchar : artist at work 1954-1961 . Christian Brandstätter Verlag 2004. Pages 68 and 69
- Peter Autengruber , Ursula Schwarz: Lexicon of municipal housing in Vienna . Pichler Verlag, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-85431-623-7 . Pages 85, 222 and 247.
- Hermann Hakel: My colleague the monkey . A cabaret with Fritz Grünbaum, Peter Hammerschlag, Erich Mühsam, Fritz Kalmar, Anton Kuh, Mynona. Sefer Verlag, Vienna 1959 - with two illustrations by Gerhard Swoboda
- The fifties - art and understanding of art in Vienna . Exhibition catalog. Springer-Verlag / Vienna, 2010. Pages 268,269,412.
Movie
- The Vienna School of Fantastic Realists , 16 mm, 1967. Film archive of media wien, 261
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swoboda, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Bistritz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1974 |
| Place of death | Vienna |