Eva Choung-Fux

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Eva Choung-Fux in November 2012

Eva Choung-Fux (born October 20, 1935 in Vienna ) is an Austrian artist .

Life

Eva Choung-Fux was born to Richard Fux and his wife Ida. She has an older sister and a younger brother. She grew up in Vienna and experienced both the " Anschluss " to the German Empire and the post-war years. In 1953 she began her studies at the Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna. She met her future husband Young Jin Choung there and got married. The son Paul was born in 1957 and the daughter Elma in 1959. In 1962 Choung-Fux made her diploma ( Magister Artium in printmaking and painting in the classes of Franz Herberth and Eduard Bäumer ). The young family lived in Japan and South Korea from 1958 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1968 . From 1968 Choung-Fux taught as an assistant at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. She stayed there with the children while Young Jin Choung had to return to South Korea to take care of family business there. The next few years were initially determined by her teaching activities (since 1975 professor for printmaking and photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, visiting professor at universities in Asia, Europe and the USA) and the upbringing of the children. The always existing parallel artistic creation gradually took up more space. From 1972 to 2000 in the Atelier Drorygasse in Vienna, since 1997 also in the Atelier Can Noyo in Campos / Mallorca, she moved to Mallorca in 2000 and has been working there in a new studio since 2006. In 2012 she donated a large part of her own archive with a total of over 1500 works to the City of Vienna's art collection since 1957. On the occasion of her 80th birthday there was the big retrospective "After the End of the World" in the Museu Modernista Can Prunera , Sóller , Mallorca and in the MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek , Vienna. At the same time, the cultural department of the City of Vienna published the monograph Eva Choung-Fux. Continuing Connections issued.

Eva Choung-Fux lives and works in the Ses Tanques studio near Campos on Mallorca.

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Eva Choung-Fux works with the media of painting , printmaking and in her sculptures in deliberate work steps and with abstract notations . In photography she captures reality in fractions of a second as a metaphor of herself. Her work and her person are constantly connected to contemporary composers and poets of various nationalities and cultures, but she also seeks a connection to people and stories from the past. Her art is part of protest and agony , but also of the longing and hope of our time.

Works in public collections (excerpt)

  • MA7, Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, Austria
  • Caestecker Public Library Foundation, Green Lake, Wisconsin, USA
  • BIAB - Beijing International Art Biennial , Beijing, China
  • Es Baluard - museu d'art modern i contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • Zachęta Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
  • TEDA International Sculpture Collection, Tianjin, China
  • Panstowne Muzeum na Majdanku, Lublin, Poland
  • Simon Wiesenthal Center , Los Angeles, USA
  • College of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
  • Gallery TOM - Touch Our Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • BAWAG, Vienna, Austria
  • Museum Ludwig , Cologne, Germany
  • Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Berlin, Germany
  • Artothek des Bundes, Vienna, Austria

Works in public space (excerpt)

  • Oratori de Sant Blai, Campos, Spain: lead glass interior portal, tabernacle and candelaber
  • Cordian Hausgemeinschaften, Dortmund, Germany: Unique graphic cycle
  • Olympic Park, Beijing, China: metal sculpture
  • Tianjin, China: marble sculpture
  • General Hospital of the City of Vienna, Austria: wooden wall relief
  • Irehune Building Tokyo, Japan: stone wall relief

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Stasny: Streiflichter on a work biography . In: Culture Department of the City of Vienna (Ed.): Eva Choung-Fux. Continuing Connections . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-045840-4 , pp. 21 .
  2. ↑ Peter Stasny: Streiflichter on a work biography . In: Culture Department of the City of Vienna (Ed.): Eva Choung-Fux. Continuing Connections . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-045840-4 , pp. 26 .
  3. ↑ Peter Stasny: Streiflichter on a work biography . In: Culture Department of the City of Vienna (Ed.): Eva Choung-Fux. Continuing Connections . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-045840-4 , pp. 30 .
  4. ↑ a b c biography . In: Culture Department of the City of Vienna (Ed.): Eva Choung-Fux. Continuing Connections . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-045840-4 , pp. 484 .
  5. ↑ Peter Stasny: Streiflichter on a work biography . In: Culture Department of the City of Vienna (Ed.): Eva Choung-Fux. Continuing Connections . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-045840-4 , pp. 40-41 .
  6. ↑ Peter Stasny: Streiflichter on a work biography . In: Culture Department of the City of Vienna (Ed.): Eva Choung-Fux. Continuing Connections . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-045840-4 , pp. 60 .
personal data
SURNAME Choung-Fux, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fux, Eva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna