Georg Koenigstein
Georg Königstein (born July 30, 1937 in Vienna ) is an Austrian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, press printer and publisher.
Life
Georg Königstein studied from 1955 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and graduated in 1961 with a Magister Artium . In 1965 he married Christine Vesely, their first son Christian was born in 1966. In 1967 Georg Königstein founded the avantypidy presse together with Johannes Twaroch . The second son, Martin, was born in 1969. From 1971 to 1998 Georg Königstein was a professor at the Federal Education Academy in Vienna, today the University of Education , and from 1984 to 2003 a member of the scientific and artistic advisory board of the Theodor-Körner-Stiftungsfonds. Together with his wife Christine, Georg Königstein founded Edition Koenigstein in 1987 to publish bibliophile books with its own printing workshop in Klosterneuburg . Georg Königstein is a member of the International Association for High Pressure Xylon .
painting
Georg Königstein was inspired by the works of Cézanne and Picasso during stays in Paris and New York at a young age and decided to carry on their historical legacy.
His analytical approach to reality, exploring it, defining it in clear compositions, dominates his early work. It is characterized by monochrome colors. The focus is on the cubist examination of shapes and lines. Without completely abandoning representationalism, he developed his own, individual visual language in order to create a multidimensional visual space with lines and surfaces in harmony and tension.
Thematically, he focuses on landscapes and female bodies, which are given an individual touch through representational attributes. He makes use of a multi-perspective . It finds its unmistakable expression in a synthesis of cubist pictorial space and expressionist use of color. In further development he allows the relief-like picture space with expressive coloring to grow together to form a multi-layered space-time structure. Visible contours develop into structure-forming lines, lie over clearly delimited surfaces, graded in color, create space within the surface, condense color space into bodies and landscapes. The natural body colors are dissolved in color surfaces that encompass objects, they carry light, create atmosphere and mood. Exuberant exhilaration is tamed by visible lines and strictly limited division. The viewer experiences innovative solutions that lead him to independent, creative perception.
Illustration, press printing and publishing activities
In addition to painting, Georg Königstein also deals with book illustrations . These prints are made with the techniques of etching , woodcut and color linocut with a lost plate. They are incorporated into artist books and bibliophile books in numbered and signed small editions with a focus on contemporary Austrian authors as original graphics. Text and original graphics are printed in our own printing workshop; Layout, book and font design by wife Christine.
Published in Edition Koenigstein a. a. bibliophile poetry and prose volumes on texts by Ewald Baringer , Barbara Frischmuth , Ewald Felber , Erich Fitzbauer, Harald Friedl , Friedrich Hahn , Margit Hahn, Heinz Janisch , Christine Koenigstein, Alfred Komarek , Peter Marginter , Annemarie Moser , Barbara Neuwirth , Elisabeth Schawerda , Peter Turrini , Paul Verlaine , Andreas Weber . The books, which are printed on valuable paper, contain not only the texts of the various authors but also signed illustrations by Georg Königstein.
Solo exhibitions
Painting and book illustrations, a selection:
- 1987 Institute for Science and Art, Vienna
- 1991 Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten
- 1994 Technical University, Vienna
- 1994–2010 Frankfurt Book Fair
- 1997 Austrian National Library, Vienna
- 2001 City Museum Klosterneuburg, Orangery of Klosterneuburg Abbey and mini press fair in Mainz
- 2003 Göppingen City Library
- 2004 Greek Embassy, Vienna
- 2005 City Library Wiener Neustadt and State Library St. Pölten
- 2007 City Museum Klosterneuburg
- 2008, 2009, 2010 book Vienna
- 2009 6th North German Hand Press Fair, Museum of Work and Technology, Hamburg
Prices
- 1959: Golden Fügermedal and Master School Award of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- 1998: Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2002: Culture Prize of the City of Klosterneuburg
literature
- Ernst Krötlinger: Georg Königstein, oil paintings - watercolors - drawings 1976 - 1987 . Exhibition catalog, Institute for Science and Art, Vienna, 1987
- Elisabeth Koller luck: Georg Königstein - oil paintings, watercolors and drawings . Exhibition catalog, Aaregalerie, Bern and Vienna, 1988
- Nora Fuchs: Georg Königstein . Aram Art Magazine, Vienna, April 1989
- Wolf A. Mantler: Georg Königstein, Thoughtful Spontaneity . Vernissage Kunstmagazin, Vienna, September 1989
- Franz Kaindl: Georg Königstein - Thinking and Painting . Vernissage Kunstmagazin, Vienna, September 1991
- Günther Frohmann: Georg Königstein . Introduction to the IBM Art Calendar, 1992
- Bernhard Hasenberger, Gottfried Reichart: Georg Königstein - design in color and line . Exhibition catalog, Technical University, Vienna, 1994
- Curt Visel: The Viennese artist Georg Königstein . Illustration 63, Memmingen, 1994,
- Bernhard Hasenberger: Georg Königstein, monograph . Edition va bene, Vienna, 1996, ISBN 3-85167-039-6
- Wolfgang C. Huber: Drawing stone and wonder tree . Exhibition catalog, Klosterneuburg Abbey Museum, 2000
- Volkmar Käppl: Georg Königstein - What does art mean to you? Vernissage art magazine, November 2001
- Volkmar Käppl: Georg Königstein, painter, graphic artist and press printer . Graphic art, issue 58/1 2002, Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen
- Arno Löffler: Georg Königstein . Vernissage art magazine, June 2002
- Ewald Baringer: Form & Color . Edition Koenigstein, Klosterneuburg, 2006, ISBN 3-901495-39-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Königstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edition Koenigstein , accessed on December 26, 2010
- Georg Koenigstein in the online database b-art1 , accessed on January 10, 2011
- Georg Koenigstein in the Frankfurter Grafikbrief , accessed on January 10, 2011
- Austrian National Library, catalog from 1992 , QUICK SEARCH for Koenigstein, Georg provides 35 entries, accessed on January 10, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.theodorkoernerfonds.at/index.php?id=163
- ↑ http://www.koenigsteinkunst.com
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2009 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.
- ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 11, 2015.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 13, 2011 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koenigstein, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koenigstein, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |