Anton Watzl

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Anton Watzl (born May 26, 1930 in Kleinmünchen ; † January 26, 1994 ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist . Watzl is one of the most important Austrian book illustrators of the last decades.

Live and act

His professional training began from 1944 to 1948 with an apprenticeship as a sign painter and hairdresser . He then studied at the Linz Art School a . a. with Karl Hauck and Alfons Ortner . From 1960 he was a restorer for the Linz City Collection. In 1961/62 he attended Herbert Boeckl's courses at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1963 he was a participant in Oskar Kokoschka's Salzburg Summer Academy .

His extensive artistic activity included u. a. numerous portraits of personalities from the intellectual and cultural life, lithographs and etchings for portfolios with European cityscapes and, from the late 1970s, woodcuts to illustrate important works of world literature . It has been recognized with numerous awards at home and abroad. His works are u. a. owned by domestic and foreign public bodies.

Exhibitions

Anton Watzl's works were exhibited on the following occasions:

  • Anton Watzl, Albertina Graphic Collection (1999)
  • Lineamente International: From Line to Drawing, New Gallery of the City of Linz , Drawing (1999)
  • Anton Watzl - a painter's life retrospective, Anton Watzl's complete works in the Nordico , (2004)
  • The Encyclopedia of True Values. The return of the same in architecture, design, lifestyle, politics. A passage work (group exhibition 2005)
  • Door to door, Atelierhaus der Wirtschaft OÖ., Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz (2008)
  • Drawing games by Anton Watzl, Nordico (2008/2009)
  • Linz view. Cityscapes in Art 1909 - 2009, Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture Organizations GmbH, Lentos Art Museum Linz , Pixel Hotel , Haus-Rucker-Co (2009)

Awards

literature

  • Karl Kleinschmidt and Anton Watzl: European cities. Impressions by Karl Kleinschmidt and Anton Watzl from nineteen cities in eight countries in nineteen notes and thirty-seven serigraphs (Carnuntum, Hanover, Cologne, Munich, Passau, London, Paris, Athens, Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Venice, Salzburg, Vienna, Basel, Zurich), Bad Goisern, 1967
  • Peter Kraft : On the death of Prof. Anton Watzl , in: linz aktiv, no. 130, Linz, 1994, p. 71f.
  • Konrad Oberhuber , Klaus Albrecht Schröder , Heinz Widauer , Peter Kraft , Ferdinand Anders and Willibald Katzinger : Anton Watzl 1930 - 1994 - a biographical sketch (monograph) , Klagenfurt 2004, 328 pages and 330 illustrations
  • Bibliography in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Neuhuber : Lenz pictures, imagery in Büchner's story and its reception in the visual arts, Vienna 2009, page 228ff
  2. ↑ Anton Watzl on the website of the city of Linz ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linz.at
  3. ^ Anton Watzl on the website Basis Wien, Kunst, Information und Archiv
  4. ↑ Peter Kraft , in: Web presence of Regiowiki.at
personal data
SURNAME Watzl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinmünchen
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1994