Fritz Aigner

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Fritz Aigner (born July 13, 1930 in Linz ; † January 9, 2005 there ) was an Austrian painter .

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Fritz Aigner attended elementary school and secondary school in Linz from 1935 to 1941 . From 1941 to 1945 he was a home student at Kremsmünster Abbey . At the age of 17 he was admitted to the Vienna Academy by Sergius Pauser without an entrance examination , where he studied until 1952. Aigner won the State Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts for The Lament of the Prodigal Son for his thesis . Since then he has lived as a freelance artist in Spain , Ireland , London and Linz. Membership in the " Vienna Secession ".

Aigner often dealt with Rembrandt in his work (for example his oil painting Rembrandt's Trick with Light ), in Linz Aigner was also referred to as the “Rembrandt of Linz” . Aigner also distinguished himself as a draftsman and printmaker , whereby these works sometimes depict very dark, apocalyptic scenes with reflections on society and well-known people. It is also worth mentioning a separate block of large-format reverse glass paintings.

On the occasion of his death, the ORF wrote: “ Aigner's mostly monumental paintings in the technique of the old masters, his reverse glass pictures and a multitude of graphics move in the field of tension between eros and religion, between surrealism, realism and fantastic realism. Concrete allusions that can reach the limits of caricature can also be found in his work. "

Aigner's first marriage was to the woodcutter Auguste Kronheim and since 1969 to Helga Aigner and had six children. He had numerous exhibitions with three of his sons. Paul Florian , Matthias Claudius and Lukas Johannes Aigner also became artists. He died at the age of 74 in the Wagner-Jauregg Hospital in Linz.

The artist's works are now in numerous public and private collections. Throughout his life and afterwards, many of his works were shown in exhibitions at home and abroad.

The Linz City Museum Nordico dedicated an exhibition to Fritz Aigner from September 29, 2008 to January 11, 2009 under the title “Child prodigy and painting machine”. The show, curated by Hannes Etzlstorfer, showed 160 of the around 1,700 works by Aigner.

Public collections

Publications

  • The Linz egg or how to lay an egg in your hometown. Stories from Linz by Gerlinde Obermeir. Drawings “Turmbau zu Linz” by Fritz Aigner. - Linz 1980.
  • Fritz Aigner by Heinz Dieckmann, Edition Cuturi 1989
  • Fritz Aigner: child prodigy and painting machine by Hannes Etzelstorfer (author) 2010, ISBN 978-3850332828
  • Fritz Aigner. In the beginning there was the picture by Frederik Lehner (author) 2010
  • Lexicon of Fantastic Artists, Gerhard Habarta 2013

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nordico shows 160 works by Fritz Aigner (ORF Upper Austria, September 29, 2008)
  2. ↑ Fritz Aigner in the art collection of the state of Upper Austria
  3. ^ Lexicon of Fantastic Artists, Gerhard Habarta 2013

Diploma thesis: Willner, Erich: Fritz Aigner and the old masters - Salzburg: Univ., Diploma thesis 2011, 87, (21) Bl.

personal data
SURNAME Aigner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2005
Place of death Linz