Anton Christian
Anton Christian (* 7. February 1940 as Anton Christian church Mayr in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian painter .
Life
Anton Christian was born in 1940 in Innsbruck as the son of the restorer and painter Anton Kirchmayr and his wife Anna (née Blattl ). Anton Kirchmayr senior also ran his own painting school. In 1942 the family moved to Oberau in the Wildschönau community due to the war .
From 1954 to 1958 Christian studied at the Innsbruck School of Applied Arts . In 1956 he was expelled from school for a short time, but was then able to continue his training. After graduating from the arts and crafts school, Christian moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1959 , where he studied painting with Herbert Boeckl and Josef Dobrowsky until 1963.
During a stay in Paris from 1964 to 1966, Anton Christian met the poet Paul Celan . Until 1969 Christian worked full-time as a restorer.
Anton Christian has been married to Marlis Hornbacher since 1967. The two have three sons together. The family lives in Natters in Tyrol .
Awards
- 1969 Prize of the state capital Innsbruck for artistic creation for painting
- 1997 Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol
- 1997 professional title professor
Exhibitions
- 1985 Mead Art Museum , Amherst (USA)
- 1990 Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
- 1995 Museo de Salamanca , Salamanca (Spain)
- 2000 retrospective “Place of Remembrance”, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
- 2002 "Damage", RLB Art Bridge, Innsbruck
- 2010 “Paarweise”, Zeughaus , Innsbruck
Works in public space
- Façade paintings Life and work in rural areas and St. Florian , Bach municipal office , 1967 (now at the Neue Mittelschule Elbigenalp and the fire station Bach)
- The four elements of antiquity , WIFI Innsbruck, 1977
- Draft glass window Last Judgment , Natters cemetery chapel, 1980
- Waterfall , MCI , Innsbruck, 2000
- Pillars of Poetry , General-Eccher-Strasse, Innsbruck- Reichenau , 2009
- Stained glass window Paths of Life Parish Church Maria Neustift , 2013
- Way of the Cross on Kalvarienberg, Erl , 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Christian in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anton Christian's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gruber, Wiesauer: Bach municipal office. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ New place for Anton Christian frescos , tirol.orf.at from October 19, 2017
- ^ Claudia Chauvin: Old frescoes saved. Rundschau - Oberland weekly newspaper from April 11, 2017
- ^ Frick, Wiesauer: Friedhofskapelle. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Neue Heimat Tirol (Ed.): Passive House residential complex Lodenareal in Innsbruck, Tirol. Innsbruck 2009, p. 69 ( PDF; 3.4 MB )
- ↑ Death is not threatening. Anton Christian designed the “Paths of Life” window for the parish church of Maria Neustift. KirchenZeitung of March 27, 2013
- ↑ Wolfgang Otter: Old tradition of the cross with modern art , Tiroler Tageszeitung from September 14, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christian, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirchmayr, Anton Christian (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |