Franz Stockinger

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Stockinger in his studio, May 2001

Franz Alexander Stockinger (born August 7, 1919 in Traun , Austria ; † April 12, 2009 in Porto Alegre , Brazil ), also known in Brazil as Francisco Alexandre or Xico Stockinger, was an Austro-Brazilian artist and one of the most famous sculptors in Brazil 20th century. He was also known as a photographer and cartoonist.

Life

Stockinger was born in Traun in Upper Austria in 1919, his father was Austrian, his mother English. In 1921 he emigrated with his family to Santo Anastácio in Brazil. From 1929 the family was based in São Paulo . There Stockinger attended a drawing course with Anita Malfatti at Mackenzie College . In 1937 he moved to Rio de Janeiro . Stockinger wanted to become a pilot, from 1939 he worked as a meteorologist for the Brazilian airline Navegação Aérea Brasileira (NAB). However, because of his Austrian citizenship, he was unable to get a pilot's license during World War II.

So he turned to art after the war and from 1946 studied at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios in Rio de Janeiro. During his studies he worked in the studio of the sculptor Bruno Giorgi . He was in contact with Oswaldo Goeldi and lived with Marcelo Grassmann , Milton Dacosta and Maria Leontina . During this time he met Yedda, his future wife, an art student and later professor of museology . He made cartoons for newspapers. In 1954 he went to Porto Alegre to work as a layout artist for the newspaper A Hora . At this time he began to work on woodblock prints .

In 1956 he got the Brazilian citizenship. In 1961 he founded the Atelier Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre and became its first director. 1957 and 1978 he was chairman of the Associação Rio-Grandense de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa ( Association for Fine Arts Francisco Lisboa in Rio Grande do Sul ). Stockinger was the museum director at Margs ( Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli - Margs , the art museum of the state of Rio Grande do Sul named after Ado Malagoli ) and in 1967 head of the art section in the cultural department of the Ministry of Education and Culture ( Ministério da Educação e Cultura ) in the state.

Franz Stockinger is also known as a collector of rare species of cactus.

Exhibitions

Beginning in 1948, Stockinger exhibited his works in group exhibitions and from 1959 also in individual exhibitions. His first solo exhibition in 1959 in Salvador was titled xilogravuras and was dedicated to his woodcuts. In 1976 the first international exhibition followed in a gallery in Rome , in 1994 an exhibition entitled bronzes in Quito , Cuenca , Bogotá and Caracas and in 1996 the exhibition Ritos de Passem: nus femininos in Buenos Aires. Many more exhibitions followed by 2003, often several in one year.

Flor (dt. Flower ) 1997 in Marinha do Brasil Park

Stockinger's works are also exhibited in public spaces , e. B. in the sculpture park in Porto Alegre .

Appreciation

At the beginning of his artistic career, Stockinger created caricatures and woodcuts. His first metalwork was expressionist with a tendency towards archaic subjects. For his mostly abstract figures, he used a wide range of different materials and preferred rough surfaces. Certain twisted forms tried to express tension and pain. From the 1970s onwards, Stockinger changed his working methods, he preferred marble, granite and other stone for his sculptures and was guided by the deformation of the material in his artistic expression.

Movie

Frederico Mendina made the documentary Xico Stockinger about the artist. The film began in 2006 and accompanied Stockinger through the last years of his life. It was completed in 2012.

Awards

source

  • Francisco Stockinger. In: Itaú Cultural Encyclopedia of Brazilian Art and Culture. Retrieved November 26, 2015 (English, biography).

Web links

Commons : Francisco Stockinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Luísa Pecora: documentario busca "preservar memória" do artista plástico Xico Stockinger. September 24, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2015 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ XICO STOCKINGER. (No longer available online.) In: Guion Arte. Archived from the original on November 27, 2015 ; Retrieved November 26, 2015 . 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.guion.com.br
  3. ^ Stockinger, Francisco (1919-2009). In: JSTOR. Retrieved November 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Francisco Stockinger. In: Escritório de Arte.com. Retrieved November 26, 2015 (Brazilian Portuguese, list of solo and group exhibitions).
  5. ^ Xico Stockinger. In: adorocinema.com. 2013, accessed November 26, 2015 (with trailer).
  6. ↑ Xico Stockinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Stockinger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stockinger, Franz Alexander; Stockinger, Francisco Alexandre; Stockinger, Xico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Brazilian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Traun
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2009
Place of death Porto Alegre