Bernhard Leitner
Bernhard Leitner (* 1938 in Feldkirch ) is an Austrian artist , author and university professor ( New York University , University of Applied Arts Vienna ).
Life
After graduating from the Academic Gymnasium Innsbruck in 1956 , Bernhard Leitner studied architecture at the Technical University in Vienna . From 1963 to 1966 collaboration and a. in the AUA (Atelier d'urbanisme et d'architecture) and in the Atelier Paul Bossard. From 1969 to 1971 he worked as an urban designer in the Department of City Planning of New York, and from 1972 Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Urban Design-Humanistic Perspectives program at New York University. From 1982 to 1986 he lived as a freelance artist in Berlin. From 1987 he took over the master class for cross-media art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna ( retirement 2005). Bernhard Leitner has owned the former grain mill Kasparek in Ravelsbach-Gaindorf since 1993 , which he renovated and converted into a studio, exhibition and residence.
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In 1969, Bernhard Leitner began his “sound-space studies”, which were developed from the idea of creating space with clay as a sculptural, architectural material.
Exhibitions (selection): PS1 New York (1979), Documenta 7 , Venice Biennale (1986), ZKM Karlsruhe (2002, 2012), Museum of Modern Art Vienna (1981), Academy of the Arts Berlin (1999, 2006), Musée d ' art modern de la Ville de Paris (1980), Kunsthalle Bremen (2001), Ars Electronica (1982), Kunstfest Weimar (2004), Tyrolean State Museum (2003, 2008), National Gallery Berlin in Hamburger Bahnhof (1999, 2008), Kolumba Museum Cologne (2012, 2014).
Permanent installations (selection): Ton-Raum TU Berlin (since 1984), LE CYLINDRE SONORE, Parc de la Villette Paris (since 1987), Ton-Raum Buchberg (since 1991), Klangstein Cultural District St. Pölten (since 2003)
From 1969 to 1971 Bernhard Leitner rescued the Wittgenstein House in Vienna from demolition (documented in 2013 by AMBRA Verlag Vienna, ISBN 978-3-99043-617-2 ).
Awards
- 1999 City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts
- 2002 Award for Media Art , Province of Lower Austria
- 2002 Honorary Prize of the German Sound Art Prize
- 2007 Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Prize, Berlin
- 2015 Austrian Art Prize for Video and Media Art
Publications
- 1978: "TON: RAUM SOUND: SPACE", DuMont Buchverlag Cologne, ISBN 3-7701-1029-3 .
- 1978: "SOUND: SPACE", New York University Press
- 1981: "TON: RAUM, Arbeit 1971–1981", series of publications by the Museum of Modern Art Vienna, No. 15
- 1997: "Geometry of Sound", Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, ISBN 3-89322-936-1
- 1998: "SOUND: SPACE", Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, ISBN 3-89322-411-4 (German edition), ISBN 3-89322-444-0 (English edition)
- 2003: "Kopfräume", Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, ISBN 3-7757-1298-4
- 2008: ".PULSE, Spaces of Time", Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-2047-2
- 2008: "TonRaumSkulptur", Museum für Gegenwart, Hamburger Bahnhof 12 and DuMont Cologne, ISBN 978-3-88609-614-5
- 2008: "Pulsating Silence, TonRaumSkulpturen", Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, ISBN 978-3-900083-18-2
- 2015: "Sketchbook.Notation.Ton-Raum", Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-4076-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Leitner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the artist
- Bernhard Leitner: Creating spaces with sounds
Individual evidence
- ^ Leitner, Bernhard Atelier Bernhard Leitner . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, p. 9.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leitner, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian artist in the field of sound art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Feldkirch |