Valentin Oman
Valentin Oman (born December 14, 1935 in St. Stefan, municipality of Finkenstein am Faaker See ) is an Austrian visual artist with a Slovenian mother tongue .
Life
Oman studied from 1958 to 1962 at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna with Hilda Jesser-Schmid in the master class for painting. In 1963 he completed a course in printmaking with Riko Debenjak in Ljubljana .
In addition to painting, Oman created frescoes , reliefs in concrete , aluminum and bronze , often in the form of works in public spaces. This includes the design of a number of churches such as the church of the Tanzenberg monastery , the parish church of Eisenkappel , Sankt Jakob im Rosental or the Easter church in Oberwart , as well as the subsidiary church of St. Magdalena in Wasserhofen with the 24-part cycle " Ecce Homo ".
Since 1963 Oman has had a number of solo exhibitions, mainly in Austria and Slovenia, but also in Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, Paris, London, Prague and New York.
Valentin Oman lives in Vienna and Finkenstein.
style
Oman is considered to be the representative of the early avant-garde in Carinthia and a master of sacred art. He is mainly concerned with the image of man. The figures are often fragmentary, torsos, heads or are only vaguely recognizable. His pictures are built up in many layers and have been revised many times. This creates the impression that the figures have been eroded out of the surface. An important topic of his art is also the transience or the becoming and passing away.
Awards
- 1995: Honorary doctorate from the University of Klagenfurt
- 2003: Culture Prize of the City of Villach
- 2005: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
- 2005: Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Slovenia for artistic life's work and for efforts to promote the Slovene language in Carinthia
- 2016: Great Golden Decoration of the State of Carinthia
Works
- Station of the Carinthian Way of the Cross, Stein im Jauntal , 1993/94
- Glass window of the parish church of St. Stefan (Finkenstein am Faaker See) , created in 2008 with the glass artist Daniel Moser.
Exhibitions
- 2016 Valentin Oman. Retrospective. Künstlerhaus Vienna
literature
- Irmgard Bohunovsky, Ferdinand Neumüller: Valentin Oman. Works and projects for public spaces. Hermagoras, Klagenfurt Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7086-0137-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Valentin Oman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the artist
- Kunstnet.at
- ORF report on the exhibition for the 85th birthday
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of V. Oman
- ↑ ORF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Birgitta Kager on Kunstnet.at ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2005 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.
- ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ↑ Valentin Oman. Retrospective. Künstlerhaus Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oman, Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Stefan (Finkenstein am Faaker See) |