The paradise

The paradise is an architectural complex with art objects in Vorderberg in the municipality of Sankt Stefan im Gailtal in Carinthia .

In 1980, the facility Das Paradies was started by the artist Cornelius Kolig, who was born there , and is a process-like, not yet completed total work of art surrounded by a wall. A flood in 2003 destroyed parts of the complex and works of art.

literature

• Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Carinthia. Vorderberg. The paradise. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, third, expanded and improved edition, Vienna 2001, p. 1040, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X .
• 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

Web links

Commons : Paradise  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.kolig.at/2009/
• Vorderberg No. 39 - the paradise of the Carinthian artist Cornelius Kolig. Federal Monuments Office , April 2018, accessed on October 29, 2019 (Monument of the Month). 

Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 14.5 ″  E