Ernestine Tahedl

Ernestine Tahedl (* 1940 in Ried in der Riedmark ) is an Austrian painter, graphic artist and glass artist.

Life

Tahedl was born in Ried in der Riedmark, Upper Austria, and studied from 1955 to 1961 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Carl Unger and Franz Herberth. From 1961 to 1963 she worked with her father Heinrich Tahedl on the artistic design of glass windows.

She has lived in Canada since 1963 and works in her studio near Toronto. Her works are in the possession of public and private collections and galleries in Canada, the United States, France, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and Croatia. She designed numerous public and private orders for glass windows, including for the Expo 1967 in Montreal, Canada.

Since 1963 she has participated in numerous exhibitions in Europe, the United States, Japan, China and Canada. Since 1963 she has had solo exhibitions in Vienna, Austria; New York, United States and numerous cities in Canada. A comprehensive retrospective, organized in 2006 in the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Unionville, Ontario, Canada, was expanded in 2012 and shown in the Lower Austrian Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten, Austria, and in the Moderna Galerija, Zagreb, Croatia. In 2016 an exhibition entitled Collected Works took place in the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

Awards (selection)

• 1961 Prize of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
• 1966 Allied Arts Award Medal for Artistic Achievement from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
• 1966 purchase price, "Concourse Artistique de Quebec"
• 1967 Canada Council - Arts Award
• 1993 "Governer Generals Medal" for the 125th anniversary of Canada
• 2002 " Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal "
• 2006 President's Medal of the Ontario Society of Artists
• 2013 " Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal "
• 2016 Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Memberships

• 1977 Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
• 1984 Ontario Society of Artists.
• 1996–2000 President of the Ontario Society of Artists.

literature

• Ernestine Tahedl: Opus II, A Retrospective in english ( online )

Web links

• Web Site (English)
• CCCA Link (English)
• Pictures and career (English)
• Exhibition 2012 in the Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten
• Entry in www.basis-wien.at (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The OSA Archives by E. Tahedl ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2015 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.