Franz Weiss

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Franz Weiss

Franz Weiss (born January 18, 1921 in Södingberg ; † June 4, 2014 ) was an Austrian academic painter and sculptor . He expressed his Christian faith in watercolors , reverse glass painting , woodcuts , fresco painting , cloth painting, enamel work, copper drifting, mosaics , colored glass windows and sculptures .

Life

Franz Weiss was born as the fifth of seven children to the smallholder and carpenter Vinzenz Weiss and his wife Anna. He received his training from 1938 to 1940 in the sculpture department of the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz . He completed his military service with the mountain troops from 1940 to 1945. From 1945 he was in the sculpture department of the Graz School of Applied Arts, graduating in 1946. He was in Rudolf Szyszkowitz's master class for painting from 1946 to 1948 and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1948 until 1951, also from 1960 to 1962 with Herbert Boeckl and Albert Paris Gütersloh , graduating as an academic painter.

In addition to his artistic work, Franz Weiss led courses in reverse glass painting, woodcut and watercolor painting at the Catholic Academy in Augsburg from 1975 to 2000 and at the Cusanus Academy in Brixen from 1977 to 2007.

The artist spent the last years of his life in the senior citizens' residence in Stallhofen . Among his sponsors was Hanns Koren .

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Weiss' extensive work is an expression of his artistic creativity and his faith. He portrayed nature, home and daily life in a Christian context. Visual imagination and faith combined to form a unity. He consistently stuck to the figurative nature of his representation and used practically all techniques in the fifty years of his work. From an art-historical point of view, his style is called "reduction realism". His works belong to folk art.

Think

Weiss' motives for his need to represent something were not exclusively religious. They also came from the unease about the situation of man in the present. "We have to learn to look again, as only children and very wise people can.", Said in one of his courses. Instead of success, people need purposeless action, childlike carelessness and relaxation in order to develop greater security in dealing with the world. In his courses he confirmed the actions of each participant. He encouraged everyone to continue for the joy of creating.

Awards

Appreciation

  • In Tregist , the municipalities of Voitsberg and Bärnbach have set up a museum in his honor in the former elementary school.

Works in public space

Village chapel in Tregist , designed by Franz Weiss

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1958 Graz, Regner bookstore; 1967 Graz, Steiermärkische Bank, City Hall (catalog); 1969 Köflach, Gallery Dr. Eder; 1981 Augsburg, Catholic Academy (catalog); 1991 Schlierbach, Margret Bilger Gallery, Schlierbach Abbey; 1991 Bärnbach, Glas-Center (book presentation); 1996 Graz, Schloss St. Martin (presentation of the Ring of Honor of the State of Styria); 1996 Marburg, Slovenia, Galerija ARS SACRA; 1997 Stainz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Stainz Castle; 1999 Brixen, South Tyrol, Cusanus Academy; 1999 Salzburg, St. Peter's Abbey, Romanesque Hall (catalog); 2000 Gamlitz, Castle (special cancellation); 2001 Altomünster, Bavaria, museum; 2008 Groß St. Florian, Styrian Fire Brigade Museum; 2015 Graz, Steiermarkhof, Hofgalerie.

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

1996 Mariazell, state exhibition; 1999 New York, Broadway, Montserrat Gallery (catalog); 2000 Valyermo, California, Saint Andrew's Abby; 2001, Verona, Spazio Espositivo Societa 'Belle Arti Verona (catalog).

Films about Franz Weiss

literature

  • Ernst Lasnik : Franz Weiss. An artist's monograph. Styria Verlag, Graz 1988. ISBN 3-222-11820-5 . On-line
  • Ernst Lasnik: Franz Weiss - The woodcut work. Styria Verlag, Graz 1991, ISBN 3-222-12083-8 .
  • Ruth Trigler: Franz Weiss - watercolors. Academic Printing and Publishing Society, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-201-01764-7 . On-line
  • Stadlober, Trigler, Kölbl: Franz Weiss - a look at the graphic chronology of the woodcuts 1950–2007. Friends of Franz Weiss association in the Imma Waid-Haus, Mariazell 2007, ISBN 978-3-200-00998-1 , text in German / English online
  • Franz Weiss - Behind Glass Pictures: 1948–1998. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1998, ISBN 3-201-01701-9 , text in German / English online
  • Götz Pochat: Franz Weiss - Working in Public Space. Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 2003, ISBN 978-3-201-01819-7 . On-line
  • Berta E. Prassl: Franz Weiß - colored glass windows 1958–2002. Verlag Diözesanmuseum Graz, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-901810-33-6 , text in German / English online
  • Franz Weiss - pictures cut in wood - woodcuts 1950–2006. Special volume of the research reports on the history of art in Styria, Mariazell 2006, ISBN 978-3-200-00794-9 , text in German / English
  • Margit Stadlober: Woodcuts by the Styrian artist Franz Weiss. With a catalog of works 1951–1999. Research Center for the History of Art in Styria, Graz 1999, ISBN 3-00-004830-8 . Text in German / English online
  • Franz Weiss - Sacred & Profane Works. Friends of Franz Weiss Association in the Imma Waid House, Mariazell 2008, ISBN 978-3-200-01200-4 . On-line
  • Berta E. Prassl: Franz Weiss - Wagnis der Schlichtheit , Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 2010, ISBN 978-3-201-01941-5 , text German / English online
  • Berta E. Prassl: Introduction Franz Weiss - Wagnis der Schlichtheit , Preface and Short Biography in 10 Languages, Graz 2012. Online
  • Franz Weiss - color compositions in enamel . Verlag Diözesanmuseum Graz, Graz 2015. Association of Friends of Franz Weiss in the Imma Waid House. ISBN 978-3-901810-35-0 , text German / English online
  • Franz Weiss - Representative Art of Modern Art , text in German / English, Graz 2016, austria-forum.org Online
  • Franz Weiss - Life and Achievement of an Eminent Austrian Artist , English, austria-forum.org Online
  • Franz Weiss - Suffering, Death and Consolation , English by G. Jontes, austria-forum.org Online

Web links

Commons : Franz Weiss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volkskultur Steiermark: Obituary ; Retrieved Oct. 26, 2014
  2. ↑ Franz Weiss on the Kunstcenter website ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2006 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.kunstcenter.at
  3. ↑ See publications of the FREUNDE FRANZ WEISS association ... in the bibliography.
  4. ↑ Ernst Lasnik (ed.): Franz Weiss. An artist's monograph. Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1988, p. 33f.
  5. ↑ Franz Weiss receives the Great Golden Decoration with the Star. State of Styria, October 20, 2010, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Prof. Franz Weiß - Museum at the Styrian Museum Association, accessed on December 17, 2019
  7. ↑ Chapel of Maria Knot Looser in Tregist ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2010 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. (Voitsberg parish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dekanat-voitsberg.at
  8. ↑ Maria, the looser of knots (Franz Weiß on the Loder network, 2003)
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Soedingberg
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2014