Franz Zadrazil

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Painting in block C7 / C8 in the Alt-Erlaa residential park

Franz Zadrazil (born November 27, 1942 in Vienna ; † October 25, 2005 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Zadrazil initially worked for the Austrian Post from 1961 . In 1966 he spent a year in Crete and began to work as an artist there. From 1968 he attended Rudolf Hausner's master class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for four years . In 1969 he created his first facade painting in Vienna . In 1971 he was a founding member of the group "Zötus" and a member of the group "Der Kreis". From 1977 he worked intensively on the technique of etching . Zadrazil stayed with the post full-time until 1979, but took six years of unpaid leave during his time there. In addition to Vienna, Paris and New York City were among the cities he preferred to portray . Zadrazil was buried at the Dobling cemetery .

Zadrazil became known for his photo-realistic representations of Viennese house facades, business portals and light rail stations . The signs of post-war decline registered by Zadrazil are captured in his pictures and also contain hidden humorous aspects. Zadrazil is not concerned with famous magnificent buildings, but with the facades of buildings that are embedded in the everyday life of the population. These are often dirty, statute-barred and not perfect, but these are precisely the qualities that interested Zadrazil in his painting and that distinguish his motifs from other cityscapes. “The content is primarily a means of transport for my painting.” Despite the very realistic painting, the pictures are not reproductions that are true to detail, but are subject to a process of change right from the creative phase. The actual act of painting is preceded by the projection of black and white negatives onto Novopan plates, from which the artist often takes over entire areas, but also only individual points. As a result, he is more or less free with the application of paint, or consciously adds or leaves out details. The result is images of closed, morbid-looking house fronts, where the viewer cannot look behind the facade. The pictures also lack the representation of living people, since they only appear as pictorial existences on advertising posters. The viewer is pushed into the role of a "storyteller" who has to create his own associations based on the image design.

Between 1975 and 1978 Peter Dressler and Franz Zadrazil made the black and white film Sonderfahrt ; an audiovisual mosaic was created as a mixture of associatively found and played.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1977: Palazzo delle esposizione, Rome
  • 1979: Austrian Gallery in Belevedere, Vienna
  • 1993: Historical Museum of the City of Vienna
  • 2012: Retrospective> Franz Zadrazil <in the Essl Museum

Web links

Commons : Franz Zadrazil  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Zadrazil, in: Franz Zadrazil. Vienna Paris New York, AK Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, 2012, pp. 16/17
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2016 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.essl.museum
  3. ↑ Special trip at filmmuseum.at
  4. ↑ > FRANZ ZADRAZIL <Vienna Paris New York ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF file; 255 kB) Essl Museum, March 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.essl.museum
personal data
SURNAME Zadrazil, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2005
Place of death Vienna