Georg Chaimowicz
Georg Chaimowicz (born June 3, 1929 in Vienna ; † June 5, 2003 ibid) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .
Life
Chaimowicz was the son of the Krzywcza- born textile industrialist Heinrich Chaimowicz and his wife Ernestine (nee Rosen). His brother was the legal philosopher and legitimist Thomas Chaimowicz .
In 1939 Chaimowicz's parents fled with him and his siblings to Bogotá via Brno and Amsterdam . There he studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional Bogotá . In 1949 he returned to Vienna and studied there at the Academy of Fine Arts with Sergius Pauser , Herbert Boeckl and Martin Polasek . In 1956 he received his diploma, in 1957 Chaimowicz moved to Paris , and his father died the following year. From 1961 Chaimowicz had studios in Vence and Vienna. In an initiative together with his great cousin, the judge Elie Rosen , Chaimowicz successfully opposed the demolition of the Baden synagogue in the late 1980s .
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In addition to satirical and political drawings, Chaimowicz developed a symbolic formal language that was reduced to a few traces. In the 1960s he was best known for his artistic-political appearance against former National Socialists. His work The "Mayor of Waidhofen" attracted wide attention.
Chaimowicz's oeuvre consists of around 26,000 works.
Honors
- 1995: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
- 1999: Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Vienna
- 2000: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1961: Georg Chaimowicz, Yvon Lambert , Venice
- 1987: Georg Chaimowicz, Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Vienna
- 1999: Georg Chaimowicz. Paths in the Path to the Imageless, Jewish Museum Vienna , Vienna
- 2014: Georg Gelernter. Georg Chaimowicz curated by Benjamin Kaufmann, Weltausstellung and Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Chaimowicz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary in the Illustrated New World
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Wolfgang Chaimowicz in basis Vienna
- ↑ a b Kodek, Günter K .: Heinrich Ch. In: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic Lodges 1945-1985 , Löcker, Vienna, ISBN 978-3854097068
- ^ Kaufmann, Benjamin: Georg Gelernter , Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna 2014
- ↑ a b Kaufmann, Benjamin: The nocturnal reality of Vienna In: Lorraine , Ztsrcpt Edition 26, Vienna 2014
- ↑ Georg Chaimowicz died , Der Standard on June 6, 2003. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
- ↑ Geir, Reinhard (ed.): Dear Papa . Vienna 1988
- ↑ Georg Chaimowicz in basis Vienna
- ↑ Georg Chaimowicz. Paths in the way of the imagery in the Jewish Museum Vienna
- ↑ 2014 annual program of the Vienna Art Foundation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chaimowicz, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 2003 |
| Place of death | Vienna |