Anton Baumgartner (sculptor)

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Anton Baumgartner

Anton Baumgartner (born July 7, 1952 in Lienz , Lienz district ; † September 27, 2009 in Oberlienz , Lienz district) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Fig. 1: Wooden head sculpture 1994 , Fuchsmoos sculpture field

Anton ("Toni") Baumgartner began his artistic training in 1968 when he attended the private technical school for wood and stone sculpture in Elbigenalp (today: Vocational training institute with public rights for handicrafts and design Elbigenalp ). He then initially worked as a freelance sculptor and wood carver in Oberlienz , before he began academic studies in sculpture at what is now the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz in 1975 , which he obtained in 1980 with a diploma in sculpture (from Erwin Reiter ) and the title Mag.art completed.

He then opened a new studio with his wife, the ceramic artist Maria Baumgartner (also in Oberlienz ) and worked there as a freelance artist, until he was employed as a teacher and later professor of sculpture at the above-mentioned school for arts and crafts and design in Elbigenalp in 1986 as his successor by Kassian Erhart . There he worked until his (early) retirement in 2006 as a professor of sculpture .

Independently of this, Anton Baumgartner (until his death in 2009) worked continuously as a freelance sculptor and wood designer in the joint studio with Maria Baumgartner , which was located in Oberlienz until 1998 , and then in the former "School Gwabl", Ainet municipality , which the two acquired in 1997 and then converted it into a shared home and studio for their purposes.

Anton Baumgartner's works can be found in private and public collections, e. B. in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck , the art collection of the State of Tyrol , the art collection of the Tyrolean State Hospitals (TILAK) , the Tyrolean Wood Museum Wildschönau , in the Museum Schloss Bruck of the city of Lienz , in the Museum Reutte , as well as in the private International Mask Museum in Diedorf , FRG.

Anton Baumgartner was a member of the Tyrolean artist community .

To the work

  • Fig. 2: Stone sculpture head 1991 , private property

  • Fig. 3: Head stone sculpture 1994 Fuchsmoos sculpture field

  • Fig. 4: Untitled wood relief 1982 , private possession

  • Fig. 5: Wooden relief cross 2004 , private property

  • Fig. 6: Wooden relief of a farmer's head with a pipe, 1984 , private property

Anton Baumgartner's work has three main lines:

(a) On the one hand, there is a sculptural development, which in wood as in stone, with increasing simplification, crystallized a very characteristic, increasingly abstract head shape of his sculptures (see Fig. 1 to Fig. 3). The writer Josef Pedarnig writes: “Here were the elements to which he was attached in his sculptural work in a way that one could almost confidently call knowing. Perhaps this also explains why his heads, made of stone and wood, in a simply suggested shape, in addition to a certain classic severity, made a surface visible that testified to an infinitely fine treatment, far from any pleasing smoothness, and which appealed to you as if it were , in his somewhat stubborn way ... Toni himself: 'I'm there for you, but don't touch me.' ".

(b) Anton Baumgartner also worked as a wood sculptor with shapes and images in relief . Here, on the one hand, he created works in a strict geometric design language, entirely in the sense of non-representational, concrete art (see Fig. 4, Fig. 5), or he transferred an expressionist painterly-figurative design to the medium of carving and wood carving (see Fig. 6 ).

(c) Furthermore, Anton Baumgartner has dealt intensively with traditional forms of wood art in the Alpine region from the start, taking up the abundance of customs and developing them artistically. On the one hand, this concerns the artistic mask design of Krampus masks in the East Tyrolean "Klaubauf" tradition (see Fig. 7–9). Here he is now counted among the "old masters" of mask design. The artistic design of traditional Christmas cribs was also important to him (see Fig. 10), and he created several nativity ensembles with his characteristic artistic figure design.

  • Fig. 7: Mask 2005

  • Fig. 8: Four masks 1997-2003

  • Fig. 9: Mask design 2000

  • Fig. 10: Nativity scene 1996

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981/82 Anton Baumgartner - sculpture in wood and stone; Maria Baumgartner - ceramics , gallery of the city of Lienz / East Tyrol (personal);
  • 1984 Anton Baumgartner: Sculptures ; Galerie Hollenstein Lustenau , Vorarlberg (personal);
  • 1986 painting and sculpture , Dengel-Galerie der Stadt Reutte , Tyrol (group exhibition);
  • 1988 Toni Baumgartner and Herbert Meusburger : sculptures and reliefs in wood and stone , cultural center, market town Hard on Lake Constance (personal);
  • 1989 Toni Baumgartner - sculpture; Hans Steininger - painting , special exhibition, museum and gallery Schloss Bruck (Lienz) (personal);
  • 1990 sculptures and objects , Galerie Tribüne, Innsbruck (personal);
  • 1990 stone sculptor symposium “Segments” and exhibition , Emser Steinbruch, Hohenems in Vorarlberg (group exhibition, work still displayed in Hohenems today);
  • 1991 Configura 1 - Art in Europe , Galerie am Fischmarkt and Haus zum Roten Ochsen, Erfurt , FRG (group exhibition);
  • 1992 8 new members , exhibition of the Tyrolean artists in the Tyrolean Art Pavilion , Innsbruck (group exhibition);
  • 1993 Walk In 1 , exhibition of the Tyrolean artists in the great hall of the Künstlerhaus in " Schloss Büchsenhausen ", Innsbruck (group exhibition);
  • 1994 Sculpture Symposium “Human-Myth-Sculpture” and exhibition , Sculpture Field Fuchsmoos , Pillerhöhe im Pitztal, Tyrol (group exhibition, 2 works are still present there today);
  • 1994 Toni Baumgartner: Sculpture , exhibition in the Reutte Museum "Green House" (personal);
  • 1996 arttirol 2nd art purchases by the State of Tyrol 1994-1996 , Galerie im Taxispalais , Innsbruck (group exhibition);
  • 2003 Three-Country Open Air for wood sculptors / Simposio internazionale di scultura in legno , sculpture symposium and exhibition, Selva di Val Gardena (Val Gardena, South Tyrol; group exhibition);
  • 2007 Locherboden reflection path , 12 stops from Mötz to Telfs (Tyrol), permanent exhibition of Anton Baumgartner's designs and execution by his class in Elbigenalp for the 2005 competition;
  • 2009 Anton Baumgartner memorial exhibition , Kultursaal, Oberlienz municipality (personal);
  • 2016 Larvae exhibition with old masters , Dölsach (East Tyrol), "Heimürrach" association (group exhibition);
  • 2019 heads. Toni Baumgartner memorial exhibition , Lienz art workshop (personal);

Anton Baumgartner memorial workshop and scholarship

Since 2015 there has been a permanent memorial workshop for Anton Baumgartner in the Unterpetererhof in Oberlienz (Fam. Baumgartner, Oberdrum 101) (on the site of the former workshop 1970–1975). A number of the artist's works are exhibited there and a complete wood sculptor's studio has been set up. Talented young wood carvers can work there and can apply to a jury (address for applications and jury chairmanship: Hans-Jörg Baumgartner).

literature

  • Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (ed.) (1983): Annual Report 1982 , Innsbruck, p. 214 (purchase of the sculpture "Deformation" (1981) from Anton Baumgartner);
  • Steininger, Hans (1984): 20 years Städtische Galerie Lienz , Lienz: Kulturreferat der Gemeinde Lienz, p. 27 (photo of the gallery rooms with exhibition objects by Anton Baumgartner, with text, on the occasion of the exhibition in 1981);
  • Osttiroler Bote (1989): Steininger and Baumgartner show new works in the castle , in: Osttiroler Bote, 43rd vol. No. 33 (17th - 23rd August 1989), p. 77 (exhibition 1989);
  • Pichler, Karlheinz (1990): A summer for art , in: Bodensee-Hefte. Die Zeitschrift der Region Bodensee, Volume 40, No. 8/1990, pp. 12–15 (report on the Hohenems Symposium 1990);
  • Osttiroler Bote (1991): Toni Baumgartner in Erfurt , in: Osttiroler Bote, 45th vol. 45 (11. - 17. 7. 1991), p. 65 (report on the exhibition Configura Erfurt 1991);
  • Möller, Petra (ed.) (1991): Configura 1 - Art in Europe. Erfurt '91 [exhibition from June 22 to August 4, 1991, in halls 1 to 7 on the grounds of the International Horticultural Exhibition Erfurt], Erfurt: Galerie am Fischmarkt, p. 155 (mention of Anton Baumgartner, with ill., Report on Exhibition Configura Erfurt 1991);
  • Tiroler Tageszeitung (1994): Mythos, Kult, Stein und Ideen , in: weekly magazine "Bildlich" of the Tiroler Tageszeitung, supplement to issue No. 204 (3rd / 4th September 1994), p. XII (with picture Anton Baumgartner "Steinkopf ", Report on the symposium and the exhibition 1994);
  • Tiroler Landesregierung (Ed.) / Hörmann, Magdalena (Red.) (1996): Arttirol 2. Art Purchases of the State of Tyrol 1994-1996 , Innsbruck: Kulturreferat des Landes Tirol, p. 15; ISBN 3-901448-01-2 .
  • Art University Linz (ed.) (2001): Master class in sculpture. Erwin Reiter and his school 1973-2001 , p. 47 (Diploma 1980: Anton Baumgartner et al., With illustration of the sculptures "Drehung I" and "Drehung II"); ISBN 3-901112-21-9 .
  • Huber, Brigitte (Red.) (2012): Krippenbuch Oberlienz , Oberlienz: Culture Committee (pp. 14–15: Anton Baumgartner as crib designer, with illus. P. 15);
  • Schönpflug, Ingo / Rauchegger, Andreas (2015): Art Collection TILAK 2015 , Innsbruck: TILAK, p. 39 (sculpture "Staircase" with ill.).

Web links

Commons : Anton Baumgartner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ As additional qualifications for this teaching activity, he passed the master's examinations for wood and stone carving in 1987, as well as the teaching examination at the Innsbruck Vocational Education Academy in 1989 (for the commercial subject "Sculpture")
  2. ↑ Purchase of the sculpture "Deformation" 1982 see the museum's annual report 1982 online , requested on January 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Acquisition of the sculpture "Head No. 3" 1992, s. generally the homepage of art purchases since 2004 , accessed December 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Purchase of the sculpture “Stiege” 1994, cf. Schönpflug, Ingo / Rauchegger, Andreas (2015): Art Collection TILAK 2015, Innsbruck, p. 39
  5. ↑ Acquisition of the sculpture "Figuration (Wood)" 1994 s. generally the homepage of the Tyrolean Wood Museum , accessed December 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Purchase of the sculpture "Kreuz" by the city of Lienz in 1990 see also: Archive Museum Schloss Bruck Lienz , queried December 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ Purchase of a “Stele (wood)” 1994 s. generally the homepage of the Reutte local history museum "Grünes Haus" ( memento of the original from December 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 12, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-reutte.at
  8. ^ Homepage of the mask museum
  9. ↑ Information about the writer Josef Pedarnig , queried December 14, 2016.
  10. ↑ online: Obituary for Anton Baumgartner (pp. 17-18) , accessed on December 9, 2016.
  11. ↑ Exhibition report , accessed on December 9, 2016.
  12. ↑ Report and illustration of a crib by Anton Baumgartner in: Oberlienzer Hoagascht No. 49, online , accessed on December 9, 2016.
  13. ↑ Information about the Dengel-Galerie, the gallery space of the city of Reutte , requested on January 2, 2017.
  14. ↑ Information on the Fuchsmoos sculpture field , accessed on December 9, 2016.
  15. ↑ online info Anton Baumgartner , accessed on December 9, 2016.
  16. ↑ see the information on the perforated floor , accessed on December 9, 2016.
  17. ↑ Report in: "Oberlienzer Hoagascht" No. 27, Dec. 2009 , queried December 10, 2016.
  18. ^ Report on the so-called larvae exhibition with works by Anton Baumgartner , accessed on December 9, 2016.
  19. ^ Report on the exhibition "Heads" , requested on October 13, 2019.
  20. ↑ Telephone & address Hans-Jörg Baumgartner as jury chairman
  21. ↑ Text of the annual report online , requested on December 13, 2016.
  22. ↑ see the permalink in Austria. Library network , queried December 13, 2016.
  23. ↑ see the permalink in Austria. Library network , queried December 13, 2016.
  24. ↑ s. Entry in the OPAC of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum , requested on December 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lienz , Lienz district
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2009
Place of death Oberlienz , Lienz district