Adolf Frohner

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Painting in block A7 / A8 in Alterlaa

Adolf Frohner (born March 12, 1934 in Großinzersdorf , Lower Austria ; † January 24, 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Adolf Frohner attended the Stiftsgymnasium Zwettl , where he also belonged to the Zwettler Boys' Choir, and the Piaristengymnasium Krems . 1952 Frohner moved, the first painting autodidactically had learned by Vienna and was Gasthörer at Herbert Boeckl on the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . From 1955 Frohner worked as a commercial artist for the Association of the Electrical Industry, from 1959 as an art critic. With Boeckl's help, he received a scholarship in 1961, which enabled him to study in Paris , where he got to know the Nouveaux Realistes and made the decision to work as a freelance artist in the future. In 1962 he exhibited his works in the Galerie Junge Generation in Vienna.

At first he was a representative of object and action art and was involved in the creation of Viennese actionism with the three-day walling up together with Hermann Nitsch and Otto Muehl and the publication of the manifesto The Blood Organ in 1962 . The separation from the Viennese Actionists was followed by another stay in Paris, where she worked in Daniel Spoerris' studio . He became known to a broader, including international, public as the representative of Austria at the São Paulo Biennale in 1969. In 1970 he took part in the Venice Biennale .

Later he turned to the panel painting in painting and graphics. A recurring motif in Frohner's pictures is violence , often portrayed by tied up women who are being subjected to violence.

In 1972 Frohner was awarded the Austrian State Prize. In the same year he began his work as a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 1985 to 2005 he led a master class in painting. In 1987 he was elected dean, was prorector from 1989 to 1991 and chairman of the institute for fine arts from 1999 to 2005.

On January 19, 2007, a few days before his death, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Frohner Forum in Krems-Stein took place . An exhibition hall for works by Frohner and other contemporary artists is to be created as part of a culture and communication center. At Frohner's request, the term museum should be avoided, as a museum should only be dedicated to the deceased. Reality caught up with him.

His grave is in the Grinzinger Friedhof (33-1-4) in Vienna.

Awards

Fountain in front of the Federal Office building on Josef-Holaubek-Platz . A work from the years 1989/90.

literature

  • D. Ronte (ed.), Work book of a restless work, 1980
  • W. Drechsler (editor), A. Frohner 1961–1981, exhibition catalog, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna 1981
  • A. Frohner. The emancipation of the flesh, 1991
  • A. Frohner, Painting or the Broken Ladder, 1993
  • A. Frohner, Painting Again, 1996
  • I. Brugger (editor), A. Frohner. Defense of the Middle, exhibition catalog, Kunstforum, Vienna 2001

Web links

Commons : Adolf Frohner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From autodidact to great painter , accessed on February 18, 2011.
  2. ↑ Manifest "Die Blutorgel", Vienna June 1962. ( Memento of November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Frohner, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Großinzersdorf , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2007
Place of death Vienna