Franz Ringel

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Franz Ringel (born April 1, 1940 in Graz ; † October 28, 2011 there ) was an Austrian painter who lived and worked in Vienna.

Life

Franz Ringel was born in Graz as the son of a horse farmhand and a laundress. He came to foster parents at the age of nine. His foster father was a Styrian regional councilor and high school inspector. His wife Margarete was a French woman who promoted Ringel's artistic talent and aroused his interest in literature. Franz Ringel attended secondary school with the later choreographer Johann Kresnik .

Ringel graduated from the Graz School of Applied Arts from 1955 to 1959 with a focus on ceramics . He then studied for a year with Hans Knesl at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna and from 1960 to 1965 with Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

In 1968, Franz Ringel was a founding member of the Realities group , with which he caused a sensation in the Vienna Secession with an exhibition of the same name. He preferred to paint human figures, which can represent motifs from the depths of the human unconscious or from classical Greek literature. The countless limbs of his puppet figures are repulsive to many. Strong, thickly applied colors make up part of the effect of his pictures.

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

In 1980 he changed his signature from Franz Ringel to MJM Ringel , with the three letters standing for the three most important women in Ringel's life. These were his foster mother Margarete, his birth mother Juliane and his wife Maria. A few years after Maria's death in 1983, the book "Seventy-eight Pictures for Maria" was created, which was recognized as one of the most beautiful books in Austria.

Numerous exhibitions, mainly in Austria or with Austrian organizers, made his work known.

After his death Ringel was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 182).

Awards

Publications

  • Joe Berger : Imma mi selba. Conversation about this and that [with Franz Ringel]. In: protocols 9 (1974). H. 1, pp. 4-11.
  • Franz Ringel: Odyssey. Seitenberg publishing house, Vienna 1985
  • MJM stripes. Art Office Wedding, Berlin 1995
  • 2. Franz Ringel, Les deux Magots, Gierig, Frankfurt 1995
  • Franz Ringel, seventy-eight pictures for Maria, facsimile volume, with texts by Helmut A. Gansterer and Peter Gorsen , edited by Helmut A. Gansterer , Holzhausen Vienna, 1997, ISBN 3-900518-71-8 .
  • Franz Ringel. The trip to Petushki. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Palais Harach. 1999
  • Sonja Traar: Franz Ringel, stops on a journey. Exhibition catalog, June 7 - November 1, 2005 Essl Collection , December 10, 2005 - January 29, 2006, Museum Bochum , Klosterneuburg 2005, ISBN 3-902001-23-2 .
  • Franz Ringel. Dionysian. With physical strength. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Suppan Fine Arts , 19 October - 20 November 2017, edited by Martin Suppan , Edition Suppan Fine Arts, Vienna, 2017, ISBN 3-901255-39-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Schuh, "The painter Ringel. A portrait ”, in: MJM Ringel. Works on paper, exhibition catalog, Museum Moderner Kunst, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Vienna 1991, p. 27
  2. ^ Obituary in the courier ( memento of October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Appreciation Prize of the State of Styria for Fine Arts: Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from April 17, 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. . Retrieved April 17, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verwaltung.steiermark.at
personal data
SURNAME Ringel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2011
Place of death Graz