Eckart Sonnleitner
Eckart Sonnleitner (born February 26, 1963 in Lasberg ) is an Austrian painter .
Life
Eckart Sonnleitner graduated from the Federal College for Civil Engineering , then studied visual education in Linz and philosophy , psychology and education in Salzburg . He graduated from the painting and graphics master class at the Linz University of Design in 1994 with distinction.
Eckart Sonnleitner has been a freelance painter since 1994. He specializes in the motif of heads and uses a wide variety of materials such as oil, egg tempera , woodcut and others. “In a convincing way, these“ heads ”(...) also realize a comprehensible, personal understanding of reality. Eckart Sonnleitner's works show an irrepressible will to create and great formal power and, step by step, form a multi-faceted image structure. "
Since 1999, Sonnleitner has been working as an artistic supervisor in the field of video film / animation at a social facility for mentally ill people and teaches image composition and art history at an institute in Kefermarkt (Upper Austria) .
The artist lives and works in Linz . His works are in the possession of public and private collections.
Artistic workspace
- 1994–1999: Various aspects of the landscape up to color-surface abstraction
- Since 2000: Intensive work on the series “KÖPFE” in oil and various mixed techniques on paper
- Since 2000: video works mainly in the field of animation:
- 2000: "Change"
- 2000/2001: "The Way of Life" (a project with the mentally ill)
- 2002: "Drama"
- 2003: "stills"
- 2003: Continuation of the head theme in printing techniques, especially woodcut
- 2004: After a Zen sesshin, increased use of ink painting
- 2007/08: Use of egg tempera, larger-format pictures
Solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)
- 1989 Linz Airport
- 1992 Hämmerle Gallery, Götzis
- 1994 Paths to Bildwerk II , Seitenstetten Abbey
- 1995 NOW - Fifty years later , Landesmuseum Linz
- 1998 Landscapes , Gallery of the Professional Association of Fine Artists Upper Austria, Linz
- 1999 Printmaking exhibition in the gallery of the professional association of fine artists Upper Austria.
- 2001 Heads , moviemento art gallery, Linz
- 2001 first view, Paradigma Gallery, Linz;
- 2001 heads; The last 5000 , professional association of visual artists Upper Austria., Linz
- 2002 curator of the annual exhibition Sundays at half past ten , Professional Association of Visual Artists Upper Austria.
- 2003 Heads , Galerie Eder , Linz
- 2007 Sein , gallery of the professional association of visual artists of Upper Austria.
- 2008 Supervision of the exhibition “Die Neuen”, Professional Association of Fine Artists Upper Austria.
- 2008 door to door, Nordico , Linz
- 2014 Painting & Calligraphy Gallery Forum Wels
Web link
Homepage of Eckart Sonnleitner
Individual evidence
- ↑ sigma, excerpts from the article in a culture report Upper Austria, 11/2001, culture report ( memento of the original from November 28, 2005 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 February 20, 2009.
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SURNAME | Sonnleitner, Eckart |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lasberg |