Bruno Gironcoli

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Gironcoli sculpture in front of the main train station in Klagenfurt
Herberstein Castle Gironcoli Museum
Herberstein Castle Gironcoli Museum
Honorary grave of Bruno Gironcoli in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Bruno Gironcoli ( pronunciation : [ dʒɪːˈronkoˌʟɪː ]; born September 27, 1936 in Villach ; † February 19, 2010 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor.

life and work

Bruno Gironcoli began an apprenticeship in goldsmithing in Innsbruck in 1951 , which he completed in 1956 with the journeyman's examination. From 1957 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1962 he studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna . He then went to Paris , where the works of Alberto Giacometti influenced him artistically. Gironcoli worked with the materials wood, nylon, iron, aluminum, glass, polyester and wire. In 1967 he had his first solo exhibition in the Heide Hildebrand gallery in Klagenfurt , followed in 1968 by a solo exhibition in the gallery next to St. Stephan .

In 1977 Gironcoli was appointed head of the sculpture school at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where he was Fritz Wotruba's successor until 2004. He received the Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts in 1993 and was the official representative of Austria at the Biennale di Venezia in 2003 .

Gironcoli collected, although never in Africa, African masks and fetishes, over 400 specimens came together in the course of time. The masks were exhibited in the Gironcoli Museum in Herberstein.

The late work consists of monumental sculptures, mostly made of wood, iron and sheet metal, rarely aluminum, which implement fantastic and surreal motifs.

Bruno Gironcoli was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 73).

Awards

Museum reception

The largest overall exhibition of his works has been on display in a separate museum in the park of Herberstein Castle in Styria since September 2004 . Numerous of his large-format sculptures reminiscent of futuristic machines are exhibited on an area of ​​2000 square meters .

In Vienna, some of his works are on permanent display in the Gironcoli-Kristall art and event hall in Donaucity .

In 2018, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna dedicated a large number of people to him. Since spring 2018, selected works by Gironcoli have been in the permanent exhibition I'm a Believer. Pop Art and contemporary art from the Lenbachhaus and the KiCo Foundation of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and the Kunstbau Munich can be seen.

Publications

  • The sculptures 1956–2008. German-English Edited by Bettina M. Busse, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-1925-4 .
  • Bruno Gironcoli - 11 sculptures. Exhibition catalog Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen 2007. ISBN 978-3-924412-58-6 .
  • Bruno Gironcoli. Biennale di Venezia 2003. Austrian Pavilion. German-Italian-Engl. Edited by Kasper König u. Bettina M. Busse, 2006, ISBN 978-3-85493-125-6 .
  • Christian Reder: Researching ways of thinking. Essays on artistic work (on Bruno Gironcoli and others), Edition Transfer at Springer, Vienna / New York 2004, ISBN 3-211-20523-3
  • The Unborn The Unbegotten , exhibition catalog MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 1997.
  • Bruno Gironcoli. Sculptures - works on paper. Edited by Klaus Thoman, Verlag der Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck 1991.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Gironcoli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian contemporary artists: works on paper; Collection Kermer Stuttgart . Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, May 19 to June 13, 1987. [Foreword: Magdalena Hörmann; Catalog editing: Wolfgang Kermer ]: Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxispalais, 1987, pp. 12-13 m. Fig.
  2. ↑ Bruno Gironcoli. Selected solo exhibitions. In: Hofstätter Gallery. 2002, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Krcal: Gironcoli's Africa Collection. (No longer available online.) August 8, 2006, archived from the original on December 30, 2012 ; accessed on March 13, 2018 . 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.lookover.at
  4. ↑ a b sculptor Bruno Gironcoli has died. (No longer available online.) In: ORF.at. February 20, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 20, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wien.orf.at  
  5. ↑ Gironcoli - crystal in the STRABAG house. Retrieved November 20, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Gironcoli - Staying shy at work. In: Mumok, February 3 to May 27, 2018. Accessed March 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Lenbachhaus - I'm a Believer. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gironcoli, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gironcoli, Bruno Anton Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 2010
Place of death Vienna