Cornelius Kolig

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Cornelius Kolig (born September 7, 1942 in Vorderberg , Carinthia ) is an Austrian painter , sculptor , installation and object artist . He is the grandson of the painter Anton Kolig .

Life

Kolig studied from 1960 to 1965 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Josef Dobrowsky and Max Weiler . He prefers to work with plastics such as Plexiglas and polyester and also experiments with X-rays .

In 1975 he was Austria's official representative at the XIII, together with Hans Staudacher and Gotthard Muhr . São Paulo Biennial .

From 1980 Kolig built Das Paradies in Vorderberg, a total work of art on an area of ​​around 6000 square meters. In a flood in 2003, Paradise and many of its other works were destroyed.

For the 100th birthday of his grandfather Anton Kolig, he organized a tribute campaign in 1986 in Klagenfurt and Vienna.

In 1996 he designed the installation Unforgotten for the Carinthian State Archives .

His redesign of the Kolig-Saal in the Carinthian country house led to fierce cultural and political controversies in 1998.

In 1999 Cornelius Kolig received the City of Villach's Culture Prize . In 2006 he received the Great Culture Prize of the Province of Carinthia, which was to be presented to him by Governor Jörg Haider . In 1998, Haider described Kolig as a faecal artist. Kolig provocatively came to handing over the culture award with gripping pliers and also used them so that he would not have to come into contact with Haider when the award was presented.

Exhibitions

  • 2009: Das Paradies , Essl Museum , solo exhibition, May 15 - October 11, 2009
  • 2016: Cornelius Kolig: Organisches, 21er Haus , Vienna, solo exhibition, June 10 - October 9, 2016

literature

  • The New Paradise of Cornelius Kolig - Novi Raj Corneliusa Koliga , In: Art on the border - Umetnost Na Meji. On the situation of art in the cultural area of ​​Carinthia / Slovenia. K Polozaju Umetnosti V Kulturnem Prostoru Koroska / Slovenija . Wieser Klagenfurt 2006, pp. 168–175.
  • Arno Ritter: Paradise . Gerd Hatje
  • Rainer Pachler: Cornelius Kolig in paradise. Highlights in the Austrian tradition of negative art reception . Dissertation University Innsbruck 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ XIII Bienal de Sao Paulo 1975 . In: old and modern art, 20th year, issue 142/143, 1975, p. 63
  2. ^ Austrian contemporary artists: works on paper; Kermer Collection, Stuttgart . Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, May 19 to June 13, 1987. [Foreword: Magdalena Hörmann; Catalog editing: Wolfgang Kermer ] Innsbruck, Galerie im Taxispalais, 1987, p. 22
  3. ↑ Essl Museum ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 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. Solo exhibition 2009: Cornelius Kolig: Das Paradies, April 24, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sammlung-essl.at
  4. ↑ 21er_Haus solo exhibition 2016: Cornelius Kolig: Organisches, June 10 - October 9, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Kolig, Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vorderberg (municipality of Sankt Stefan im Gailtal) , Carinthia