Adolfo Schlosser

Adolfo Schlosser

Adolfo Schlosser (* 1939 in Leitersdorf ; † December 10, 2004 in Bustarviejo near Madrid ) was an Austrian painter , sculptor and poet .

He originally trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but later found his main artistic expression through close contact with nature. During his studies at the academy he also dealt intensively with literature and poetry and published his own works. At the age of nineteen he went to Iceland with Radegundis Lanser (Eriksson), his partner at the time, who, according to him, was a "master and muse", to devote himself entirely to painting. He lived there for four years and worked intermittently in deep-sea fishing. The intense experience of northern nature has had a strong influence on his artistic development.

During this time he created pictures with motifs from Icelandic nature and female nudes, some of them by his partner. These works cannot be found to this day and were therefore not shown in the retrospective in the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 2005. He moved to Spain in 1967. While he was almost unknown in Austria, his artistic work was successful in his new home. He preferred stone, clay, wood and straw as materials for his work. In the 1970s, he founded the experimental art magazine Humo together with the Austrian artist Eva Lootz, who also lived in Spain, as well as the painter Juan Navarro Baldeweg and the philosopher Patricio Bulnes .

In 1991 he received the Spanish National Prize for Fine Arts .

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolfo Schlosser in the catalog of the German National Library