Alfred Karger

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Alfred Karger (born January 16, 1925 in Odorheiu Secuiesc , Romania , † October 12, 1978 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Alfred Karger was born to Austrian parents in Transylvania , where his father worked as an auditor for a timber company. When he was three years old, he developed polio , which resulted in a lifelong handicap. The family moved several times, Alfred grew up trilingual; He attended Hungarian and Romanian schools, graduated in 1943 and, at the request of his parents, began studying German and philosophy in Budapest .

In 1945 the family fled to Vienna from the Red Army . Under precarious circumstances (stateless and temporarily without accommodation) Karger began to study painting with Herbert Boeckl and Robin Christian Andersen at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . From 1948 he took part in exhibitions, in 1950 he became a member of the Vienna Secession Artists' Association . During his studies, he made trips to Paris and southern France . After graduating in 1953, he married a fellow student, the painter Annelise Karger , née Lagler; the couple moved into a studio apartment in the city of Vienna. Karger had three children; he lived and worked in Vienna until his death.

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Karger created oil paintings , watercolors and drawings . In addition, portraits of politicians and members of the Chamber of Commerce and - in collaboration with Annelise Karger - mosaics for public buildings in the city of Vienna were commissioned. The Karger couple were among the early lecturers at the summer academy in the artists' village of Neumarkt an der Raab in Burgenland .

For Karger - as a Boeckl student and admirer of Paul Cézanne - the precise study of nature remained the basis of his work throughout his life. Mostly tied to the house due to his illness, he used to practice life drawing and at times found his motifs under the microscope and especially in the rooftop landscapes of Vienna that he saw from the window.

He moved in the classic genres of still life , landscape and portrait and consciously kept his distance from contemporary movements such as the emerging action art and the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism . Towards the end of his life he had made a name for himself as a watercolorist.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1960 Gallery Dalichow Lüdenscheid / Cologne
  • 1962 Vienna Secession (Hoffmannsaal)
  • 1965 Gallery at the Stubenbastei Vienna
  • 1968 Würthle Gallery, Vienna
  • 1973 Gallery in Goldgasse Salzburg
  • 1973 Würthle Gallery, Vienna
  • 1975 Würthle Gallery Vienna
  • 1976 gallery at Sparkassenplatz Innsbruck
  • 1976 Würthle Gallery, Vienna
  • 1977 Museum of the 20th Century Vienna
  • 1977 Welz Gallery, Salzburg
  • 1978 Maier Gallery Innsbruck

Group exhibitions

  • 1954 Esposizione Internazionale Milano
  • 1955 Musée Fabre Montpellier
  • 1960 Academy of the Arts Berlin
  • 1961 Vienna: The subject in Austrian painting and sculpture
  • 1964 Birmingham Autumn Festival
  • 1968 Vienna Secession: Secession 68
  • 1968 Galerie Würthle Vienna: The human figure
  • 1969 Galerie Würthle Vienna: Austrian painting and sculpture since 1945
  • 1969 Vienna: Austrian nude drawings from Klimt to the present day
  • 1970 Künstlerhaus Vienna: Motifs
  • 1971 London, Royal Academy of Arts
  • 1971 Vienna and Frankfurt / Main: drawing today
  • 1972 Kupferstichkabinett of the Vienna Academy: Nude drawings
  • 1972 Graz: Secession 72
  • 1973 Vienna: portrait today
  • 1973 Secession Vienna Kon 73

Locations of work

Albertina (Vienna) , Belvedere (Vienna), Collection of the City of Vienna, Collection of the Lower Austrian State Museum, Rupertinum Salzburg, Chamber of Commerce Vienna, Austrian Federal Ministry of Commerce, private collections ( Serge Sabarsky New York and others)

Awards

  • 1950 First prize for painting from the Franco-Austrian Society
  • 1953 State Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts
  • 1954 Honorary Diploma from Esposizione Internazionale Milano
  • 1961 Exhibition Prize from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts
  • 1967 City of Vienna Prize
  • 1973 Prize of the Vienna Art Fund
  • 1976 State sponsorship award for graphics (watercolor)

Mention in publications

  • Waissenberger, Robert: Vienna and Art in Our Century (Vienna 1965)
  • A. Karger in: A. Karger: Drawing a. Watercolors; [Exhibition]; Oct 26 - Nov 20 1965 , [catalog], professional association d. visual artist of Austria (Vienna 1965)
  • Breicha, Otto et al. Fritsch, Gerhard: Encouragement to distrust (Salzburg 1967)
  • Galerie Würthle, Vienna: Alfred Karger: Oil paintings a. Drawing; June 18 to July 11, 1968 ; [Catalog] / Würthle (Vienna 1968)
  • Pack, Claus: Modern Graphics in Austria (Cologne 1969)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Karger in the Angewandte / Basis Wien database , accessed on basis-wien.at on January 23, 2016
  2. ↑ DNB entry
  3. ↑ DNB entry
personal data
SURNAME Karger, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Odorheiu Secuiesc , Romania
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1978
Place of death Vienna