Joannis Avramidis
Joannis Avramidis ( Greek Ιωάννης Αβραμίδης ; born September 23, 1922 in Batumi , Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ; † January 16, 2016 in Vienna ) was a contemporary Greek - Austrian sculptor .
life and work
Joannis Avramidis was born as the son of Pontic Greeks in Batumi (USSR). The persecution and the death of his father in prison forced the family to emigrate to Greece in 1939 . Joannis Avramidis had to drop out of his studies at the Art Academy in Batumi, which he started in 1937. In 1943 Avramidis came to Vienna as a foreign worker, studied painting from 1945 to 1949 at the local academy and from 1953 to 1956 sculpture with Robin Christian Andersen and Fritz Wotruba .
He was a well-known artist as early as the late 1950s, creating abstract figures derived from the human body. He represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 1962. In 1965/66 he taught at the Vienna Academy , where he was professor from 1968 to 1992. The art theorist Heimo Kuchling was a close collaborator . 1966/67 he worked as a professor in Hamburg. Reinhard Puch and Wolfgang Götzinger were among his students .
Avramidis was married to the sculptor and poet Annemarie Avramidis (1939-2013).
Awards
- 1956: State Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
- 1958: Austrian Promotion Prize for Plastic
- 1961: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
- 1961: Hugo von Montfort Prize , Bregenz
- 1964: Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts
- 1968: Will Grohmann Prize of the City of Berlin
- 1973: Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts
- 1985: Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art
- 2014: Jerg Ratgeb Prize
Exhibitions
- 2019: " Zoran Music and Joannis Avramidis", Gallery W&K - Wienerroither & Kohlbacher , Vienna
- 2017: “Joannis Avramidis” (retrospective), Leopold Museum , MuseumsQuartier , Vienna
- 2007: "Insights - Piepenbrock Private Collection", Berlinische Galerie
- 2006: “Joannis Avramidis” Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern; “A common place” Lentos Art Museum, Linz
- 2005: figure / sculpture Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg; "Joannis Avramidis - Drawings" Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
- 2003: "Sculpture - from stability to mobility", Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz
- 1999: “Greeks among Greeks”, Glyptothek Munich; “Zeitschnitt 1900–2000”, Lentos Art Museum and New Gallery of the City of Linz
- From September to December 1999 twenty sculptures by Joannis Avramidis and his wife Annemarie Avramidis were exhibited in squares and gardens in the old town of Bamberg.
- 1988: Sculptures and drawings, Schlossgarten and Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
- 1977: documenta 6 documenta , Kassel
- 1964: documenta III documenta, Kassel
- 1962: 31st Venice Biennale 1962 Venice Biennale
literature
- Karin von Maur , Gudrun Inboden (arrangement): Painting and sculpture of the 20th century , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 1982
- General artist lexicon - bio-bibliographical index A – Z , KG Saur, Munich, 1992, ISBN 978-3-598-24555-8
- Ina Busch among others: A forest of sculptures. Simon Spierer Collection . Hatje Cantz Verlag 2005, catalog for the exhibition in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. ISBN 3-7757-1609-2
Web links
- Entry on Joannis Avramidis in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Literature by and about Joannis Avramidis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Joannis Avramidis in the documenta archive
- Radio recording by Joannis Avramidis in the archive of the Austrian Media Library. Ö1 lunch journal 11th article
Individual evidence
- ↑ derStandard.at Kultur, Bildende Kunst from January 16, 2016: Sculptor Joannis Avramidis died
- ↑ Aesthetics and Grace in FAZ of March 26, 2013, p. 28
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Avramidis, Joannis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Αβραμίδης, Ιωάννης (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Batumi |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2016 |
| Place of death | Vienna |