Alfred Beaver

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Alfred Biber (born August 22, 1942 in Vienna ; † September 3, 2013 in Bisamberg ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

In 1959, Alfred Biber began studying at the Federal Higher Education and Research Institute for Graphics in Vienna. He turned to abstract painting , but at the same time copied the works of the old masters and thus acquired a deep knowledge of their techniques. In 1961 his son Anton was born. He received the first poster award in 1962 for a poster of the Austrian Red Cross from the City of Vienna's Department of Culture. A study visit to Stockholm followed . His daughter Katharina Biber was born in 1965. He worked as a painter , graphic artist and designer until 1970 .

In 1966 he met Heinz Cibulka and Peter Kubelka . With his friend, the painter Fritz Schottkowsky , he went on a study trip to Scandinavia in 1967 . Washed reed pen drawings were the stylistic device of this time, which were then transferred to stone in Vienna. With one of these lithographs, Biber received an international original graphic award, which was donated by the municipality of Milan. His son Florian was born in 1967.

From 1970 to 1975, Biber worked as creative director and advertising manager for international companies. In 1975 he worked as a stage painter in the theater in der Josefstadt . He returned to advertising graphics in 1977 and again received a poster award from the City of Vienna, which was presented to him as part of a public honor by Helmut Zilk . Biber put his focus on illustrations and storyboards and illustrated a. a. Pope John Paul II for the magazine " Basta ". For the first time he had partially painted over the portrait. In 1977 he met Hermann Nitsch . Biber finally turned away from commercial graphics, burned almost all of his previous work and painted over the rest of it. In 1977 he staged a public painting action in Vienna in which he painted over an advertising poster in front of an audience. Exhibition activity began under the later constant theme of "painting over one's own work"

Alfred Biber was married to the photographer Liesl Biber . He was the father of three children, lived and worked in Bisamberg , Lower Austria .

art

From 1979 Biber devoted himself exclusively to painting . He developed a new painterly grammar under the title “Overpainting one's own work”. The result was pictures that were not just objects, but areas for action. The main themes of the pictures, the representational part, were themes from the sexualized advertising world, which he questioned with overpainting.

In 1984 there was a close artistic collaboration with Hermann Nitsch . In 1989, Biber began teaching at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg , which he held until 1995. He worked with Christian Ludwig Attersee in 1991 in Salzburg . In 1994 he finished his book "The Lion's Roar" (writings on art theory). In 1996 a public painting campaign took place in Vienna. In 2008 he created picture cycles that increasingly expressed the philosophy of syncretism between modern and contemporary painting. He fought to eliminate seemingly irreconcilable contradictions. After a severe stroke in 2009, new work was done a year later.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1979 Club Splendid, Vienna, gallery on the Stubenbastei, Vienna
  • 1980 Clubgalerie Motto, Vienna
  • 1981 Stellfeld Gallery, Vienna
  • 1982 Small Gallery Vienna
  • 1983 Pet Gallery, Vienna
  • 1984 Chobot Gallery Vienna, Lower Austria State Gallery, Vienna, Motto Club Gallery, Vienna, Stellfeld Gallery, Vienna, Yppen Gallery, Vienna
  • 1985 Small Gallery Vienna, United Art Gallery, Vienna, Pet Gallery, Vienna, Blue-Yellow Gallery Vienna
  • 1986 public painting campaign, Vienna, Blue-Yellow Gallery, Vienna, Landesgalerie Lower Austria St. Pölten, Lower Austria
  • 1987 Augenspiegel Gallery, Vienna, BH Gallery, Melk, Lower Austria Documentation Center for Modern Art, the Blue-Yellow Gallery, St. Pölten City Museum, Lower Austria
  • 1989 Studio Burian, Vienna, St. Peter ad Sperr, Wr. Neustadt, Lower Austria, State Gallery, St. Pölten, Lower Austria, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg
  • 1990 Small Gallery Vienna, Labor Dr. Gauß, Vienna, Chamber of Commerce, Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria
  • 1991 Count. Cabinet Lower Austria / Vienna, Small Gallery Vienna, Studio Burian, Vienna, Gallery Barockschlössl, Mistelbach Lower Austria, Gallery in the Studio House , Bisamberg, Lower Austria, Tiroler Kunstverein, Innsbruck
  • 1992 Studio Burian, Vienna, Kleine Galerie Wien, Galerie Gross, Vienna, Studio Vogel, Vienna, Galerie Schloß, Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
  • 1993 Vienna Art Palace, Damage Gallery, Vienna, Office Division, Vienna, Dadashi Gallery, Vienna
  • 1994 Kunstraum Chiba, Vienna, Galerie Bacsa, Vienna
  • 1995 Schüttkasten Castle Gallery Primmersdorf, Lower Austria, Small Gallery Vienna, Art Space Peter Chiba, Vienna, Victoria Kent Gallery, Vienna
  • 1996 Gross Gallery, Vienna,
  • 1997 Creativ Gallery, Vienna, Gallery Karmeliterhof, St. Pölten, Lower Austria
  • 1998 Galerie Arteffekt, Vienna, Artvent in the Archtitekturcenter, Vienna, Galerie Gross, Vienna
  • 1999 Word & Image Gallery, Vienna, gallery in the studio house, Bisamberg, Lower Austria
  • 2000 Schloß-Galerie, Mistelbach, Lower Austria, City Museum, St. Pölten, Lower Austria, ECO art, Vienna, Galerie Hölz ​​+ Eikelmann, Düsseldorf
  • 2001 Galerie Jüttner, Vienna
  • 2002 Hafner & Kraft Gallery, Munich
  • 2003 Barockschlössl, Mistelbach Lower Austria, art space in the Ringstrasse Galleries Vienna, City Museum, St. Pölten, Lower Austria
  • 2004 Galerie am Schlossberg, Würnitz , Lower Austria, Galerie Hölz ​​+ Eikelmann, Düsseldorf
  • 2005 Landhausgalerie, St. Pölten, Lower Austria, City Gallery Purkersdorf, Lower Austria
  • 2006 Small Gallery Vienna
  • 2007 Small Gallery Vienna
  • 2010 MZM Museum Center Mistelbach , Lower Austria
  • 2011 art space in the Ringstrasse galleries Vienna
  • 2012 gallery in the studio house, Bisamberg, Lower Austria

Group exhibitions

  • 1984 St. Peter ad Sperr Wr. Neustadt, Lower Austria
  • 1985 Authors' Gallery, Munich, Blue-Yellow Gallery Vienna, Palmenhaus Gallery, Gmünd, Lower Austria
  • 1986 Blue-Yellow Gallery, Vienna
  • 1988 prison, Amstetten, Lower Austria, Documentation Center, St. Pölten, Lower Austria
  • 1989 The gallery of BH St. Pölten, Lower Austria, Kunstverein, Salzburg
  • 1990 Kurt Kalb Gallery, Vienna, Encounter Gallery, Velm, Lower Austria, Dida Gallery, Graz, Styria
  • 1991 Studio Dr. Kolmer, Vienna, Christine Jones Art Cabinet, Vienna
  • 1995 Multi Media Arts Gallery, New York, art fair, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996 Special Exhibition Art Fair, Orlando, US
  • 1997 City Center, St. Pölten, Lower Austria, St. Peter ad Sperr, Wr. Neustadt, Lower Austria, Karmeliterhof Gallery, St. Pölten, Lower Austria
  • 1998 Cselley Mühle, Oslip, Burgenland
  • 1999 ex neuron in the paint box in Düsseldorf
  • 2000 Radiokulturhaus, Vienna, St. Peter ad Sperr, Wr. Neustadt, Lower Austria
  • 2001 Palais Palffy, Vienna
  • 2002 Water Tower, Vienna, German Sports and Olympic Museum, Cologne GTK Gallery Tulbingerkogel, Lower Austria, Thürntal Castle, Lower Austria
  • 2004 Karmeliterhof, St. Pölten, Lower Austria, MEL Gallery, Vienna, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • 2005 Sala Barna Barcelona Gallery
  • 2006 art space in the Ringstrasse galleries in Vienna
  • 2007 Pavilion Josephine, Strasbourg, France, art and wine, Lower Austria
  • 2008 Small Gallery Vienna
  • 2009 Art Association Mistelbach Lower Austria, Small Gallery Vienna, Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2012 art space in the Ringstrasse galleries Vienna

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Cibulka, Austrian photographer, action and object artist
  2. ↑ Hermann Nitsch, Austrian painter and action artist, Orgies-Mysteries-Theater
  3. ↑ Manifesto, The Rationally Organized Artwork
  4. ^ Christian Ludwig Attersee, Austrian painter
  5. ↑ The Lion's Roar, Several approaches to painting by Alfred Biber, editor: Alfred Biber, 1994
  6. ^ Art as Irritation-Lower Austria Art Catalog for the exhibition Art as Irritation, St. Peter ad Sperr, 1984.
  7. ^ Prototype image, Lower Austria art catalog for the exhibition Artists Art Artists, Blue-Yellow Gallery, 1985.
  8. ↑ ex neuron, The normal madness catalog for the exhibition and the symposium for the Int. Day of Mental Health, Düsseldorf, 1999.
  9. ↑ Great Shot (Artists See Golf) Book for the exhibition Great Shot, Artists See Golf, German Sports and Olympic Museum, Cologne, 2002
  10. ^ Nitsch - Role Models, Contemporaries, Teaching Catalog for the exhibition in the Künstlerhaus, 2009.
  11. ^ Book for the 70th birthday of Alfred Biber
personal data
SURNAME Beaver, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2013
Place of death Bisamberg