Gabriele Kutschera

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Gabriele Kutschera (* 1950 in Vienna ) is an Austrian metal artist and designer of the Nestroy Theater Prize - Statuette . She lives and works in Vienna or in Kösslwang in the market town of Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting ( Upper Austria ) and is considered to be Austria's leading iron sculptor.

Training and work

After graduating from high school, she studied jewelry and metal design at the Academy for Applied Arts and at the University of Applied Arts with Franz Hagenauer .

She has been a freelance artist since 1975. From 1986 to 2001 she was a lecturer for metal design at the Higher Federal College for Artistic Design Herbststrasse in Vienna.

After referring to the functional purpose up to that point, it entered the large dimension of forging around 1990.

In 1991 and 1993 she took part in the World Blacksmiths Congress. She is a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus and the Upper Austrian Art Association . In 2000 she designed the statuette for the Nestroy Theater Prize . In 2008 Kutschera was awarded the Austrian Post Savings Bank Prize by the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

From 1978 solo exhibitions were dedicated to the artist's works:

  • 2012: EISEN: // ZEIT, Upper Austrian Art Association
  • 2008: Gabriele Kutschera. Zeitlinien, Künstlerhaus Vienna

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linz 2009 - European Capital of Culture in the website of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria ( Memento from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Kunst.net Austria
  3. ↑ Gabriele Kutschera: Ordnungs, in: Werner Wolf - Web presence of MUWA - Museum of Perception ( Memento from April 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Awards and honors. Künstlerhaus GmbH, accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Gabriele Kutschera, biography on the website of the Upper Austrian Art Association ( Memento from December 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kutschera, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian metal artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna