Erika Seywald
Erika Seywald (born November 18, 1955 in Berg im Drautal ) is an Austrian painter.
Live and act
Erika Seywald has been involved in abstract painting since the 1970s and presents her partly large-format, colorful pictures in solo or group exhibitions. Her work includes graphic works in monotype technique, egg tempera and oil paintings. Topics are the origin of life and its transience, the determination of nature and the cosmos and man in his surrender.
After graduating from high school in Lienz East Tyrol , she attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1974 to 1979 , where she was a student of Gustav Hessing . After completing her studies in art at the academy and history at the University of Vienna , she received a scholarship for Turkey from 1978 to 1982 and dealt with Byzantine cave painting, sky observation and nature studies in Cappadocia near Ürgüp and Göreme . Since 1982 she has been teaching at the GRG3 Gymnasium Hagenmüllergasse in Vienna. Since 1993 she has been a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien .
In the "sand technique" she developed, she uses fine-grained corundum to draw traces on the horizontally lying canvas and thus separates the diluted oil paints from one another, and coarse-grained quartz to give the colored surfaces of the abstract figures their own structure. While the coarse grains of sand are removed again after the work is finished, the fine-grained sand lines remain across the canvas and give the picture an aura through their glitter in artificial light. Erika Seywald has refined and further developed this technique several times.
In addition to large-format works with poetic titles, she also created variations of heads, angels, animals and mythical creatures as well as sky studies, water images and graphic insights into the microcosm.
Erika Seywald lives and works in Vienna / Austria.
Awards
- 1996 Liesl Bareuter Prize, Künstlerhaus Vienna
- 1996–1997 Softlab cultural partnership
- 1998 Theodor Körner Prize
Memberships
- IG Fine Arts Vienna
- Künstlerhaus Vienna
- Art Association Carinthia Klagenfurt
Exhibitions
Since she started exhibiting in 1989 (Städtische Galerie Lienz Osttirol : Wesen - Wesenhaft) she has had around 30 solo exhibitions and 100 participations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Poland. Factory sales were made to museums, collections and collectors in Europe, USA, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.
literature
- Blanka Schmidt-Felber: Color fields, for the exhibition in Krakow 2012 (speech)
- Anna Rutkowski: The metaphysics of the color spot in the crypt u Pjiaróv in Krakow
- Blanka Schmidt-Felber: Flowers of People, Stuttgart 2006 (speech)
- Blanka Schmidt-Felber: Color in me, DerKunstraum, Vienna 2005 (catalog)
- Hubert Thurnhofer: Erika Seywald and poetic realism, Vienna 2005 (speech)
- Hubert Thurnhofer on the personal Erika Seywald: Color in me
- Studio Vienna
- Small gallery
Movie
- Tadeusz Oratowski: Erika Seywald, Kolorowe pola, Krakau 2012
- Art Movement BLOG, Erika Seywald: The restlessness of colors
- Artist portrait Erika Seywald, 2011
- Erika Seywald: Life in Color, 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ wiadomosci24.pl (December 3, 2012)
- ↑ color in me
- ^ Studio Vienna
- ↑ Small gallery
- ↑ Tadeusz Oratowski
- ^ Art Movement
- ↑ artist portrait
- ↑ Life in Color
- "Wesen - Wesenhaft" (exhibition catalog 1989) and "Farbe in mir" (exhibition catalog 2005).
- Edition: "Ten doesn't want to be ten anymore and vibrates twice. Then there is silence." Folder with 10 screen prints on Rives handmade paper 250g, 65 × 50 cm, edition 50 + 10 ea (art workshop Andreas Stalzer Vienna, 1999/2000), studiovienna.at
- CD TRANCE: Interdisciplinary art project in text, music and images (2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seywald, Erika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berg im Drautal |