Auguste Kronheim

Auguste Kronheim (born January 28, 1937 in Amsterdam ) is an Austrian wood cutter and draftsman .

Live and act

Kronheim's father, the printer and typesetter Hugo Kronheim had been on the roll since 1928 and worked in numerous European countries. In the Netherlands , where he represented German book publishers , he met his future wife, who came from Germany, in 1936. The family lived in Castricum and later in The Hague , where Auguste, who grew up bilingual, attended a German school. In 1944 the mother traveled with Auguste and her brother, who had been born in the meantime, from occupied Holland to Gmunden , where the father, who had been drafted into the Wehrmacht after the beginning of World War II, lay seriously wounded in a hospital. The family moved to Grundlsee and Auguste Kronheim attended elementary school there from autumn 1944 . When the parents divorced at the end of 1944, the father was granted custody of the children. Nevertheless, the father was drafted into the Wehrmacht again at the end of 1944. In Grundlsee, Auguste Kronheim met the artist Hanns Kobinger , who promoted her talent for drawing. Later the priest Johannes Ude , who worked in Grundlsee, was one of her friends.

After the end of the war , the father, who had meanwhile set up an advertising company in Linz , brought the children to his home in 1948 and Auguste attended the Eisenhand School and Mozart School. In 1948 the children were sent to Denmark to relax with a host family for several months . After attending the Goethe School , Auguste switched to the Raimund School.

Auguste Kronheim, who was instructed in drawing by Hanns Kobinger during her summer stays in Grundlsee, attended the art department of the Linz Federal Trade School in Goethestrasse , headed by Paul Ikrath , from 1952 . There she concentrated her work on the technique of woodcuts. During this time she met the Linz artist Fritz Aigner , with whom she was married from 1956 to 1962. Already in 1959 she had an exhibition together with Fritz Aigner and others in the Kliemstein Gallery and received artistic commissions. After a brief employment as head graphic designer at the Linz department store Kraus & Schober , Kronheim had to live in precarious conditions with her three children. Through the mediation of the Cologne Carmelites , she received support from Heinrich Böll and his wife Annemarie , who offered her a place to live near their holiday home on the Irish island of Achill Island . Kronheim moved in 1964 with her children and the pressure equipment according Dugort on Achill Iceland and later with her partner Michael White, whom she had learned on the island know, in the location at the far end of the island Dooega . Heinrich Böll took over the sponsorship of their fourth child, who was born there in 1965. Since her residence permit in Ireland was not extended, Kronheim had to return to Austria with her children in 1966. In 1965 Auguste Kronheim and Fritz Aigner moved into the Engelbert-Kliemstein-Kunsthaus in Linz's Ottensheimerstrasse, which had just been founded by Josef Fischnaller . Until the failure of this project, the two lived and worked there.

Auguste Kronheim then moved to Kirchberg ob der Donau , met the young writer Werner Kofler in Linz and moved with him and her children to Vienna in 1970 , where she soon gave birth to twins. The living situation of the family at that time is described in Kofler's book Local Conditions . Kronheim became a member of the Graz Authors ' Assembly and the Artists' Cooperative Artwork . In 1990 he separated from Werner Kofler and began to deal with the traditions of the Tibetan woodcut. In the period 1991–1996, Auguste Kronheim made several trips to Nepal , where she got to know the traditional printing techniques of the monasteries, was intensively artistic and took part in local social projects.

Auguste Kronheim now lives in Vienna. One of her sons is the painter Brendan Kronheim .

Woodcut series

Color woodcut 'Zhang Zhung' No. 3 (1992)

1969 appendix
1970 Side effects - local conditions
1970 wife and mother
1971 Decadence
1972 As bright as the bright day
1973 Illness to death - for Hermann Flasch
1973 Scary childhood
1974 Above and Below (Capital and Labor)
1976 Vienna III
1979 Tomorrow you'll be a housewife
1980 through the desert
1982 Through wild Kurdistan
1982 Variations over the mountain path
1983 taste (simple is undoubtedly)
1986 Tragedy of a white-bearded man
1987 removal
1988 The Grossglockner, cycle with 7 views
1992 Schang-Schung, Himmelsreisen - My path is the edge of a purple cloud
1994 The bridge to the other bank
1995 Cold shoulder

Exhibitions

1961 Galerie Bejvl, Linz
1964 Galerie Gurlitt, Hofgartenarkaden Munich
1966 University of Education in Bonn
1967 Cologne University of Education
1969 Bejvl Gallery, Linz
1972 Globetrotter Gallery, Frankfurt
1972 1st Graphic Biennial, Vienna Secession
1974 Galerie Lehner, Linz (together with Joseph Hinterleithner )
1975 City Museum Nordico , Linz
1976 Elefanten Press Galerie , Berlin
1980 Henning Gallery, Hamburg
1981 BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
1982 APEX Gallery, Göttingen
1985 Austrian Cultural Forum Paris
1986 Auguste Kronheim. Graphic work , Salzburger Kunstverein
1989 Hofkabinett Gallery, Linz
1991 Beck – Forum Munich (mediated by Herbert Achternbusch )
2014 Kunstgenuss Essen , Nordico Museum of the City of Linz (participation)
2017 accompanying phenomena , Nordico Museum of the City of Linz (catalog)
2019 Galerie Hofkabinett Linz (together with Monika Pichler )

Film actor

1979 Der Komantsche , directed by Herbert Achternbusch (supporting role)

Awards

1972 Theodor Körner Prize
1973 Award of the Vienna Art Fund
1977 1st prize for political graphics in Austria
2019 Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria for Fine Arts

Publications

Auguste Kronheim, woodcuts and drawings . Collection catalog of the Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz, publication no.113, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, 2017, 120 pages, ISBN 978-3-99028-722-4 .