Manfred Daringer

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Aspach cemetery, Braunau district, Upper Austria: urn grave by the sculptor Manfred Daringer

Manfred Daringer (born July 19, 1942 in Altheim ; † November 25, 2009 ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Live and act

Daringer comes from a family of artists. His great uncle Engelbert Daringer was an important church painter , his father Otto Daringer a wood sculptor and his uncle Franz Daringer a renowned church painter.

After attending the Federal College in Hallein from 1964 to 1968, he studied sculpture at the Linz Art School from 1968 to 1970 . From 1970 to 1975 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class of Fritz Wotruba and graduated with a diploma. From 1970 he started exhibiting and since 1977 he was a member of the Upper Austrian Art Association and the Innviertler Künstlergilde .

Daringer is considered one of the most distinguished sculptors in the country and worked with wood and stone in various forms. He had bronze sculptures made from many of his plaster and terracotta models. Daringer's works are closely linked to the market town of Aspach and can be found there in several public places.

Awards

  • In 1975 he received the Wotruba Prize .
  • The artist bequeathed his entire estate to the community of Aspach, which is why activities to present his artistic work were set up after a private foundation was established. A tour of the places where he worked was supplemented by the Daringer Art Museum in the Stiblersaal in Aspach, where Manfred Daringer's works can be viewed permanently.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traces of life of someone who is always searching, in: Aspacher Gemeindespiegel (PDF; 8.6 MB)
  2. ↑ Manfred Daringer Private Foundation, in: Aspacher Gemeindespiegel 3/2012
  3. ↑ CV Manfred Daringer, in: Web presence of the Upper Austrian Art Association ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ooekunstverein.at
  4. ↑ Manfred Daringer lives on in his works of art (PDF; 527 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Daringer, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Altheim
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2009