Franz Riegersperger

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Franz Riegersperger (born October 28, 1920 in Dürrnfellern / Suché Vrbné , Czechoslovakia; † June 2015 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist who also worked as a writer .

Life

Franz Riegersperger attended elementary, secondary and commercial school in Salzburg. The Salzburg Festival , he was associated since his youth, when he and his friends in 1931 on the stage in front of the Salzburg Cathedral to children Every man could perform, a performance that even Max Reinhardt impressed. He played the demon Mammon in this performance; In 2004 he presented the golden costume he was wearing at the time to the Salzburg Museum .

In August 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and after the end of the war he spent four years in Yugoslav captivity. In January 1949 he returned to Salzburg and worked as a clerk at the regional health insurance fund . Since July 14, 1952, he was married to his wife Gertrude.

Artistic work

He received lessons in freehand drawing from school councilor Friedrich Büchsner. Otherwise he is to be assessed as an autodidact . For his drawings he used the Bourdon tube technique , which he had come across due to a lack of material in his captivity. The first pictures were done in sepia , followed by black-and-white studies and finally those with colored reed pen drawings. He is also known for linocuts , with which he designed a photo wallpaper for the Hotel Elefant in Salzburg.

In addition, Riegerperger wrote prose texts, scripts for television, features and radio plays.

Riegersperger was on the board of the professional association of Austrian visual artists and also on the board of the Camerata Academica . He was also a member of the Salzburg Museum Association and the Salzburg City Association ; He contributed a large number of illustrations and articles to his magazine "Bastei (sheets of the Salzburg City Council for the preservation and care of buildings, culture and society)".

Honors

  • Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
  • 1966: Honorary award for graphics from the Salzburg Art Association
  • 1963: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
  • 1958: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
  • 1957: Funding from the City of Salzburg

The composer Jakob Gruchmann dedicated the work Im Schatten der Sterne to Riegersperger on his 94th birthday . A Christmas epic , a piece of music for ten hand prints by the artist.

Publications

  • Peter Coryllis ; Franz Riegersperger (graphic) (1970). Salzburg, the wonder of a city . Steyr, Ennsthaler (with 50 full-page pen drawings). ISBN 392144618X .
  • Josef Bernegger (texts); Franz Riegersperger (graphic); Josef Gruber (composition) (1976): And Bethlehem is everywhere (stories). Linz, Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House.
  • Cultural Office of the City of Wiener Neustadt (ed.): Franz Riegersperger: Homage to Salzburg. Graphic cycle. Exhibition October 21 to November 15, 1981. Wiener Neustadt, 1981.
  • Franz Riegersperger (1982). Children's eyes see Salzburg. Salzburg City Association (50 full-page pen drawings).

According to information from Literaturnetz.at he has also written the books Die Neugebauer (1988), The White Prince (1987) The Gryphius Legende (1986) and The Schnürlregen (1985).

literature

  • AW (2015): artist Franz Riegersperger passed away. Bastei - Magazine of the Salzburg City Association, 64th year, p. 29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AW (2015): artist Franz Riegersperger died. Bastei - Magazine of the Salzburg City Association, 64th year, p. 29.
  2. ^ History of the Salzburg Festival 1931
  3. ↑ Invitation to the finissage of the exhibition “Jedermann. From Moissi to Simonischek ”on October 26, 2004 ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburgmuseum.at
  4. ^ Franz Riegersperger: Memories of the "child everybody" 75 years ago. Bastei, F. 2/2006, pp. 35-36.
  5. ↑ Photo wallpaper in the Hotel Elefant ( Memento of the original from November 28, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.malerei-sebela.at
  6. ↑ Franz Rieger Perger on Literaturnetz.at
  7. ↑ Franz Riegersperger (2004): Christmas miracle - autobiographical story. Bastei, vol. 53, 4th episode, pp. 27–39.
  8. ^ Franz Riegersberger (2005): Salzburger Fürstenwappen. Bastei, vol. 54, pp. 33-34.
  9. ^ Franz Riegersperger (2008): Epitaphs in Salzburg Cathedral. Bastei, 57 vol., Pp. 25-28.
  10. ^ Franz Riegersperger (2008): Mem'ento [Epitaphe]. Bastei, 57 vol., Pp. 32–35.
  11. ↑ AW, 2015, p. 29.
  12. ↑ Franz Riegersperger on literaturnetz.at
  13. ^ Honorary award for graphics from the Salzburg Art Association
  14. ↑ a b Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna .
  15. ^ Promotion of the City of Salzburg
  16. ↑ In the shadow of the stars. A Christmas epic
  17. ↑ Franz Riegersperger on Literaturnetz.at
personal data
SURNAME Riegersperger, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dürrnfellern / Suché Vrbné , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH June 2015
Place of death Salzburg