Drago J. Prelog

Drago Prelog (2018)

Drago Julius Prelog (actually Karl Julius Prelog ; born November 4, 1939 in Celje , Yugoslavia ; † March 11, 2020 in Vienna ) was a Slovenian-Austrian painter and graphic artist . He lived and worked in Vienna.

Life

Karl Julius Prelog grew up in Upper Styria . Compulsory school attendance in Markt Haus and Schladming. From 1954 to 1958 Drago Prelog attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz department for decorative painting with Otto Brunner. Since 1958 he called himself Drago Julius Prelog . From 1958 to 1962 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Albert Paris Gütersloh . In 1960 he made his first scriptural work. In 1967, Drago Julius Prelog received the Theodor Körner Foundation's sponsorship award and in 1969 a prize from the Neue Galerie Graz .

From 1969 to 1979 he was a lecturer in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1974 to 1997 he also lectured on "Type and Type Design" at the academy. 1968 Participation in the Venice Biennale . This was followed by the Art Prize of the State of Styria and in 1972 a large retrospective in the State Museum Joanneum (now Universalmuseum Joanneum ). On May 18, 1977 Prelog painted his first circular painting. In 1982 he exhibited a large retrospective of his work in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg . Since then, several hundred exhibitions have followed at home and abroad.

"Prelography" as a design technique

Prelog became known for a design technique developed in-house, known as "prelography". Prelography is a reproduction technique that can be used primarily in the field of printmaking. With the help of perforated templates, over which stiff acrylic paint is drawn with a spatula, a haptically perceptible, scale-like pattern is created. Prelography can be easily combined with other printmaking techniques such as lithography, offset, etching, chine-collé, wood linocut, screen printing (also a stencil technique). The first attempts at this special variant of the stencil technique began in the mid-1980s, but the Egyptians already knew how to cut certain shapes out of papyrus and reproduce them using colored pads.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1979: New pictures , new gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz
• 2016: Old Friends , Liaunig Museum , Neuhaus
• 2016: Pasinger Fabrik , Munich

Honors (selection)

• 1967: Theodor Körner Foundation sponsorship award
• 1969: Prize of the Neue Galerie Graz
• 1979: Anton Faistauer Prize
• 1994: Appreciation award of the state of Styria for fine arts
• 1999: Awarded the professional title of Professor
• 2002: Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg
• 2004: Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria
• Honorary grave in Vienna

Publications

• Drago Julius Prelog: The graphic work 1961–1994. With texts by Otto Breicha and Drago J. Prelog. Widrich, Salzburg 1994, ISBN 3-9005-7270-0
• Drago Julius Prelog: Masterpieces of Styrian Modernism , text by Gabriela Fritz, Styria Pichler Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-222-13116-3
• Drago Julius Prelog: A Painted Biography. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-65552-8 (PDF; 29.8 MB)
• Semirah Heilingsetzer (ed.): Drago Julius Prelog - A painted biography 1959–2019 , contributions by Semirah Heilingsetzer, Wolfgang Hilger, Martin Hochleitner & Drago J. Prelog, artedition, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , Weitra 2019, ISBN 978-3- 99028-901-3 (Engl. Edition: Drago Julius Prelog - A Painted Biography 1959-2019 , ISBN 978-3-99028-903-7 )

literature

• Prelog, Drago J. In: Gritta Hesse, Hille Schneider: Art of the Young Generation. A bibliography and biographical reference work. Volume 1, America Memorial Library , Berlin Central Library , Berlin 1968, p. 90.
• Prelog, Drago Julius. In: Cornelia Reiter, Michaela Pappernigg: Art of the 20th Century. Volume 3 (L – R), Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Brandstätter, Vienna 1997; P. 221 f. ISBN 978-3-854-47764-8
• Manfred M. Lang: Prelog, Drago Julius . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 96, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023262-2 , p. 522.
• Gabriela Fritz: Drago Julius Prelog: under the sign of the picture. Hermagoras / Mohorjeva, Klagenfurt, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85013-994-8 (contains: list of works p. 259–268, bibliography p. 241–245)

Web links

Commons : Drago Prelog  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Drago J. Prelog in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Website Drago Julius Prelog

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1. ↑ nachrichten.at of March 16, 2020: painter Drago Julius Prelog died ; accessed on March 16, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Prelog Drago Julius | Gallery Weihergut Linzergasse Salzburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 11, 2017 ; accessed on September 11, 2017 (German). 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.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Galerie Gerersdorfer - biography of Drago Julius Prelog. Retrieved September 11, 2017 . 
4. ^ Museum Liaunig: Start of the exhibition series Alte Freunde Drago j. Prelog ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2017 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. ; accessed on September 13, 2017 
5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Love-hate to Vienna ; accessed on September 13, 2017