Gerhard Gepp
Gerhard Gepp (* 1940 in Pressbaum ) is an Austrian illustrator , painter and graphic artist .
life and work
Gerhard Gepp was born in Pressbaum in 1940. As an artist, Gepp is self-taught . First of all, he is training to be an offset printer . He then worked from 1964 to 1976 as a graphic designer and illustrator. He received prizes for various works, e.g. B. the poster prize of the city of Vienna and the "Rizzoli prize" Milan . The first publications in specialist magazines in Germany and Switzerland followed. Parallel to this, photographic works were created for advertising and Gepp exhibited his work in the Viennese gallery "Die Brücke". From 1976 he made drawings, gouaches and oil paintings, which were exhibited in the "BAWAG Foundation" Vienna. Further exhibitions in Austria and Germany followed, as well as presentations at art fairs in Basel, Cologne and Ghent.
Since 1989 he has been working on what is known as "Poetic Satire". These works with acrylic on cardboard and canvas have been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions and have been awarded prizes. His illustrations have appeared in numerous international and German-language publications.
From 1976 he made hand-colored etchings.
In 1991 Gepp began with the "Devolution" section. The paper and cardboard prepared with acids and alkalis were then graphically revised by the artist.
In 2001 he was given the professional title of Professor .
Gerhard Gepp lives as a freelance illustrator, painter and draftsman in Pressbaum near Vienna.
Gerhard Gepp is represented by the Siegfried Kaiblinger Gallery in Vienna.
Prizes and awards
- 1983 State Prize for Advertising, Girozentrale / IMT Vienna (Austria)
- 1990 Intern. Cartoon Festival Budapest (Hungary), 3rd prize
- 1991 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), special price
- 1992 IWA Foundation, Havirov (Czechoslovakia), 3rd prize
- 1992 Velocartoon, Siauliai (Lithuania), 1st prize
- 1993 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), 3rd prize
- 1994 Austrian children's and youth book illustration award
- 1994 Children's and Youth Book Prize of the City of Vienna (Austria)
- 1996 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), special price
- 1997 The Golden Smile, Belgrade (Yugoslavia), 2nd prize
- 1997 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), 3rd prize
- 1998 12th Dutch Catoon Festival, Eindhoven (Netherlands), special price
- 1998 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), 3rd prize
- 1999 20th Biennale Internazionale dell´Umorismo nell´Arte, Tolentino (Italy), special price
- 1999 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), special price
- 2001 International Forum of Visual Humor, Surgut / RUS, special price
- 2002 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), 1st prize
- 2003 Eurohumor, Borgo San Dalmazzo / I, special prize
- 2003 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), 3rd prize
- 2004 Swiss Cartoon Award, Switzerland, special prize; Humorest
- 2004 Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), 3rd prize
- 2006 Everything Wine, Literature & Caricature, Krems (Austria), 2nd Prize
- 2006 Satyrykon (surprise!) , Legnica (Poland), Grand Prix
- 2008 Hans Langitz Memorial Prize for Caricature, Klagenfurt (Austria)
- 2008 Aydin Dogan XXV Intern. Cartoon Comp., Istanbul (Turkey), 3rd prize
- 2012 Warsaw Caricature Museum (Poland), International Competition The ball is in play , 1st prize
- 2014 Dieter Burkamp Prize for Caricature (Germany), 2nd Prize
- 2016 Satyrykon, Legnica (Poland), Grand Prix
Solo exhibitions
Beginning of 1989 (excerpt)
- 1991 Intern. Cultural Center Krakow / PL
- Gallery of the City of Legnica / PL
- 1993 / ´96 / ´98 / ´02 / ´06 Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna / A
- Gallery of the City of Salzburg / A
- 1994 / ´99 / ´03 Galerie Thomas Flora, Innsbruck / A
- Gallery Peithner Lichtenfels, Prague / CZ
- 1995 National Art Gallery, Islamabad / PAK
- National Collage of Arts, Lahore / PAK
- Indus Valley School of Art, Karachi / PAK
- All India Fine Arts Society, New Delhi / IND
- 1996 / ´03 Gallery etcetera, Munich / D
- / ´00 / ´04 Gallery Welz / Salzburg / A
- 1997 Inter Art Gallery, Cologne / D
- Austrian Embassy Washington DC / USA
- Galleria d'Arte Artesegno, Udine / I
- 1998 Gallery Kramer, Hamburg / D
- 2000 / ´04 Galerie Wolfrum, Vienna / A
- 2001 / ´06 Galerie am Salzgries, Vienna / A
- Lower Austria Documentation Center, St. Pölten / A
- Austrian Culture Forum Warsaw / PL
- 2002 House of Art, Graz / A
- 2004 Austrian Cultural Forum Brno / CZ
- 2005 Olaf Gulbransson Museum, Tegernsee / D
- 2006 Sennestadt cultural group, Bielefeld / D
- 2007 bast-art gallery, Vienna / A
- 2009 Egon Schiele Museum , Tulln
- 2010 Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art, Warsaw / PL
- 2010 Kaiblinger Gallery, Vienna
Participation in exhibitions
- 1990 boarding school Cartoon Festival, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest , Hungary
- 2009 Trends and dreams in Schloss Fischau , district gallery of the Province of Lower Austria in Bad Fischau
Museums and collections
- Albertina / Vienna
- Collection Leopold / Vienna
- Lower Austrian State Museum
- Artothek Lower Austria
- Culture Office of the City of Vienna
- Intern. Museum of Humor in Art, Tolentino / I
- Warsaw Caricature Museum
- Moravské Gallery Brno / CZ
- Caricature Museum Basel / CH
- Fine Arts Museum Surgut / RUS
- Caricature Museum Krems
Illustrations in newspapers and magazines
Gerhard Gepp made numerous commissions for print media. Including for the daily newspapers Der Standard , Die Presse and the Wiener Zeitung in Austria as well as Die Zeit and the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Germany. The magazines illustrated by Gepp include the Austrian business magazine trend , the popular science magazine Psychologie heute in Germany and the satirical magazine Nebelspalter in Switzerland. Gepp created numerous illustrations and cover images for the Wiener Journal , founded in 1980 by Jörg Mauthe and sold to Wiener Zeitung in 2004 .
Catalogs
- Gerhard Gepp 1982 Ed. Galerie Hilger, (Foreword Wolfgang Hilger), Vienna
- Gerhard Gepp 1984, 1986 and 1987 (oil paintings)
- Devolution , 1991 (preface by Gabriela Nagler)
- Mirror fencing 1987
- Poetic satire 1993 (preface Angelica Bäumer )
- Poetic satire works 1993 - 1996 (preface Günter Traxler )
- Poetic satire works 1997 - 2000 (preface Florian Steininger )
- Poetic satire works 2001 - 2003 (preface by Manfred Wagner )
- Gerhard Gepp 2010, catalog for the Warsaw exhibition (preface by Manfred Wagner)
- "Poetischer Realismus", 2014, works 1979 - 2006 (preface Silvie Aigner)
Books
- Werner Fiala, Gerhard Gepp: Manifesto in words and pictures. Provincial Library, 2010, ISBN 978-3-90000-072-1
- Irene Ulitzka, Gerhard Gepp: The land of corners. Picus Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-85452-062-X , (Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize 1994, Children's and Youth Book Prize of the City of Vienna, 1994)
- Gerhard Gepp: Small boat on a long journey. Picus Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-85452-087-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Gepp in the catalog of the German National Library
- 5th International Graphic Triennial on Kunstaspekte.de
- Review by Florian Steininger in the Wiener Zeitung ( Memento from February 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blaugelbe Viertelsgalerie Schloss Fischau (accessed on June 26, 2009) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Caricature Museum Krems, History and Holdings ( Memento of the original from August 29, 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.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gepp, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Press tree |