Ewald Wolschner
Ewald Wolschner (born January 1, 1951 in Klagenfurt ; † May 3, 2015 in Krumpendorf am Wörthersee ) was an Austrian visual artist ( draftsman , painter , sculptor , ceramist ).
biography
Wolschner came from an upper-class, art-loving family. The father Wilhelm Wolschner (1918–1990) was one of the co-owners of the Klagenfurt family business Stoiser & Wolschner , a concrete, artificial stone and pipe factory, the grandfather was the architect Karl Wolschner (1862–1927), who attended the master school at the Academy of Fine Arts visited by Otto Wagner and Carl von Hasenauer. Ewald Wolschner's grandfather Karl, a colleague of Josef Hoffmann and Josef Plecnik's, was initially an employee of the Fellner & Helmer architectural office and then independently realized a number of projects in Vienna and Klagenfurt (apartment buildings in Vienna, the Protestant department and church of the Central Cemetery in Vienna as well as the Western School and Chamber of Commerce Klagenfurt). Ewald Wolschner's paternal grandmother was the daughter of the Styrian master builder Josef Stoiser.
The architect and painter Karl Wolschner (1913–2009) is an uncle of Ewald Wolschner. Ewald Wolschner's mother Olga (1922–2012) came from a master stonemason family named Moschitz from the Italian Canal Valley . Wolschner attended several secondary schools in Klagenfurt and, thanks to the support of his well-off family, was able to devote himself mainly to his artistic ambitions and inclinations from a young age. In the late 1960s, Wolschner met Heinz Goll . In 1964, Goll and the painter Werner Lössl (* 1929) founded the “Green Gallery” at the “Heiligengeistschütt” in Klagenfurt , in which a joint work by Goll and Wolschner that still exists today was created: “Object on Gresselweg” (in Maria Rain near Klagenfurt). Heinz Goll, who emigrated to Bogota / Colombia in the late 1970s, has always been considered an adventurer, philosopher, revolutionary and bon vivant and clearly shaped Ewald Wolschner's artistic development and had a lasting influence on him with his work and character.
In 1970/71 Ewald Wolschner was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts with Max Weiler . Wolschner's encounter with the painter and sculptor Berry Hackl, who became both a personal friend and an artistic companion, also took place at this time.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Heinz Goll founded several artist communities, such as the “Kontaktofen” in Theatergasse in Klagenfurt, the “Mieger Art Collective” and the “X-Art” association. The center of all these artistic activities was the legendary "Käferkeusche", an old farm in Mieger, Ebenthal. Far from the prevailing conventions at the time, in the atmosphere of these progressive and open communities, Ewald Wolschner's artistic work unfolded more and more diverse and he thereby intensified various painting, sculpture and ceramics techniques. These art communes were the birthplaces of the visual arts (painting, sculpture), handicrafts (ceramics, macramé), literature (readings), theater performances and music (rock, jazz, pop) and enabled fruitful symbioses of these various artistic disciplines. Here the writers Gert Jonke , Christine Nöstlinger , Peter Turrini , Robert Gratzer , musicians like Paul Rapnik and band members of the " Hallucination Company ", visual artists like Gerd Wucherer , Ulf Komposch , Werner Lössl, Ingrid Smolle, Christian Setz, Aurea Goll met. Santos, Helmut Schnöller (“Malek”), Johanes Zechner or architects such as Klaus Holler or Horst Brudermann (“Art in Architecture”) etc. Due to the influence of this all too inspiring environment and the intercultural cooperation of all these disciplines, Ewald Wolschner's most intensive and successful followed Years. After the first solo exhibitions in the "Galerie O Mieger" in 1972, further exhibitions followed in 1973 in the "Tomschehof" in Villach, in the "Nachtgalerie" Schloßhotel Seefels, in the "Vienna Galerie Malmö" Sweden, 1975 in the Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, 1978 in the "Galerie X- Art ”in the Kumpfgasse in Klagenfurt, 1980 in the“ Kellergalerie ”in the Klagenfurt town hall, 1981 at the University of Educational Sciences in Klagenfurt (joint exhibition with Werner Hofmeister, Alois Köchl , Viktor Rogy , Egon Rubin , Wolfgang Walkensteiner and Johanes Zechner ), in the 1980s In the 1990s, further exhibitions followed in the "Galerie Kutscha" in Salzburg, in various galleries in Carinthia (Mieger, Klagenfurt, Krumpendorf) and the permanent exhibition of his work in the "Galerie Wolschner" in Krumpendorf until his death in May 2015.
Private
Daughter Diana, born in 1972, emerged from the marital relationship with Ingeborg Neidhardt. Ewald Wolschner was the partner of goldsmith and jewelry artist Roswitha Gradischnig. Ewald Wolschner cultivated a friendship with the Klosterneuburg painter, sculptor and "action" artist Christian Marmorstein.
Influences
In addition to his companions like Heinz Goll or Berry Hackl, Ewald Wolschner was artistically also through “ Surrealism ” (e.g. Salvador Dalí ) and the “ Vienna School of Fantastic Realism ” ( Ernst Fuchs , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Arik Brauer , Helmut Leherb ), another essential artistic stamp was fed by his intensive study and the examination of the predominant Far Eastern religions and philosophies as well as the psychedelic movements of the 1960s. It is worth mentioning the silence and seclusion into which the artist voluntarily went over many decades. This “philosophy of life of silence and contemplation” is often in stark contrast to Wolschner's “loud” colorful works. In a dazzling world of colors, figures usually burst explosively over a fantastic landscape, and a “garden of earthly delights” emerges in front of the beholder's eye.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ewald Wolschner - archiv.belvedere.at
- ^ Karl Dinklage: Carinthia's commercial economy from prehistoric times to the present . Klagenfurt 1953, p. 409
- ↑ Karl Wolschner. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
- ↑ http://www.sw-umwelttechnik.com/fileadmin/romania/media/100_years_brochure.pdf
- ↑ Goll-Tamayo, Piedad (ed.): Heinz Goll, seine Leben, seine Werk , Hermagoras, Klagenfurt 2001, p. 30
- ↑ Nöstlinger, Christine: Peter Turrini - A one-sided love story - About wooing those who never go to the theater, in: Literaturlandschaft Österreich - How they see each other, how critics see them - 39 prominent authors, edited by Michael Cerha, Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, p. 95 f.
- ^ Catalog for the exhibition "We belong to the earth", UBW Klagenfurt, 1981
- ↑ Wolff, Ingrid: Self-created calm - art out of silence - about Roswitha Gradischnig and Ewald Wolschner, in: Die Brücke, 2/1990, 16th year / 2nd year. Edition, Klagenfurt 1990, pp. 38-41
- ↑ Reference to Hieronymus Bosch : The Garden of Earthly Delights
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolschner, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2015 |
| Place of death | Krumpendorf am Wörthersee |