Andrew's judgment

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Andreas-Richter-Weg in the Josef-Bohmann-Hof in Donaustadt

Andreas Judgment (born January 19, 1933 in Gakovo , Opština Sombor , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † June 13, 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor and draftsman of German descent - Yugoslav descent. He was an important representative of the artistic avant-garde of Austrian sculpture of the 1950s and early 1960s.

life and work

Bird drinking fountain in the residential complex Hanselmayergasse 9–15, Vienna- Hietzing

Andreas Judgment was born into a family from Danube Swabians and was raised in German. His father was a qualified stonemason . In 1945 he was interned with his mother and brother in a Yugoslav prison camp. But they manage to escape through Hungary to Austria , where they meet their father again in Vienna in November 1945.

At the beginning of 1947 Andreas Judge was still an autodidact as a sculptor, from 1948 he did an apprenticeship as a stonemason at the Eduard Hauser company in Vienna. In the evenings he attended art classes at the adult education center and took up drawing . From 1951 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and was Fritz Wotruba's master class from 1953 to 1954 . His fellow students in Atelier Wotruba included Roland Goeschl , Joannis Avramidis , Alfred Hrdlicka , Nausica Pastra , Alfred Cerny , Erwin Reiter , Franz Anton Coufal , Rudolf Kedl and Leopold Höfinger .

In 1954 and 1957, judgment went on long study trips to Italy , where he studied the art of the Renaissance and Classical Antiquity . In his own sculpture, he initially oriented himself on these models. From 1958 he began to create his spontaneous maginary figurations . He destroyed his early works with the echoes of classical sculpture and began to shape his own figurative style with sculptures as simplified, human ideal images.

In 1961 he got a teaching position for stone carving at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From the late 1950s, his art received international attention. He exhibited in the Vienna Secession , in the Vienna Museum of the 20th Century, in the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels . In the summer of 1962 he took part in the sculpture symposium St. Margarethen in Burgenland .

In 1963 he died in Vienna after a serious illness. He was buried at the Kagran cemetery . After his death, his work continued to be exhibited internationally. In 1961 his work was represented at the Biennale de Paris and in 1964 with his cartilage figures at the documenta III in Kassel in the section " Aspects 1964 ". His sculptures have also been exhibited at the world exhibitions in New York City and Montreal and at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne .

Andreas judgment left a rich life's work of drawings and sculptures in stone, bronze, wood and stamped concrete. He created numerous spontaneously modeled cartilage figures and imaginary figurations .

Awards

literature

  • Otto Breicha : Andreas judgment. Monograph with catalog raisonné of the sculptures, drawings, watercolors and prints. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-7141-6735-8 .
  • Andrew's judgment. December 13, 1963 - January 5, 1964. Editor: Otto Breicha. Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna 1963. (exhibition catalog).
  • documenta III. International exhibition. Catalog. Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture. Volume 2: hand drawings. Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics. Kassel, Cologne 1964.
  • Andreas judgment 1933–1963. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna 1983. (exhibition catalog).

Web links

Commons : Andreas Judgment  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grave site of Andreas Judgment , Vienna, Kagraner Friedhof, Group D, No. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Verdict, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Gakovo , Opština Sombor , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1963
Place of death Vienna , Austria