Adolf Drobny

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Adolf Drobny (* 1938 in Linz ; † December 12, 1994 in Pregarten ) was an Austrian goldsmith and artist.

Life

Adolf Drobny completed his training as a master goldsmith and state-certified jewelry designer. He then studied at the art and craft school in Pforzheim , where he met his wife Elsa, a watchmaker's daughter and a master goldsmith herself.

In 1964, Adolf and Elsa Drobny founded a workshop with a shop on Herrenstrasse in Linz. At that time, her work was considered unique and avant-garde in Linz. Soon the workshop was enlarged and staffed by Alois Stimpl and Fritz Esterbauer . As a result, branches were established in Salzburg and Zell am See . Drobny's workshops later resulted in a number of independent goldsmiths, which he also supported. At that time they lived in a house in Leonding .

In 1972 Drobny acquired the “Felsenburg” in Pregarten, a neo-renaissance villa built in 1921 by Viennese city architect Anton Klappholz for the Viennese businessman Anton Watzl , to which he moved after extensive renovations. The Drobny couple got involved in Pregartner culture and were co-founders and sponsors of the Pregartner cultural association "CART".

Drobny was also the master of the goldsmiths' guild in the Chamber of Commerce and founded the association “Friends of Goldsmithing” to promote contemporary jewelry and develop new aesthetic forms of expression. In 1989 he initiated the school for jewelry design with an institute on a club basis in the Losensteiner Freihaus acquired for this purpose in the old town of Linz, which was continued by his daughter, Anja Schlotthauer until 1997. In 1991, a "EL-Avantgarde Gallery", run by his wife Elsa, was opened in the Losensteiner Freihaus, which existed until Elsa Drobny's death in 1995.

After Adolf Drobny's death, son Lucas Drobny organized a large exhibition of his works, which was shown in the Linz City Museum Nordico , at Hagenberg Castle , at the Vienna Festival and in the Pforzheim jewelry school.

Works (selection)

  • Linz mayoral chain, 1974
  • Medals for professional Olympics

literature

  • Peter Kraft: Adolf and Elsa Drobny. In: Ortschronik Pregarten. Volume 2. Pregarten 1997, p. 120 ff.
  • Drobny. This book will be published for the exhibitions of the same name in: Linz, Nov. 10, 95-6. Jan 96, Nordico City Museum; Pforzheim / FRG, Feb. 16, 96-31. March 96, jewelry museum Pforzheim; Hagenberg / Pregarten, April 13, 96-5. May 96, Hagenberg Castle; Vienna. 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Drobny, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian goldsmith and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1994
Place of death Pregarten