Gerhard Habarta

Gerhard Habarta

Gerhard Habarta (born July 1, 1939 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian author , gallery owner and publisher .

life and work

The Palais Pallfy on Josefplatz (2006)

In 1955 Habarta began with youth and educational work and founded the Association of Young Collectors. In 1958 he began working as a gallery owner, exhibition maker, author and publisher. In the years 1966 to 1971 he worked as program director of the art book program of the publishing house of Vienna with book publications also of visionaries , including the first catalog raisonné of prints by Ernst Fuchs and Helo Weis, and monographs of APGütersloh, Fritz Janschka and Helmut gravel.

In 1971 he began working as the publisher of international graphic editions, sculptures and multiples. Through this work he maintained a publishing collaboration with numerous artists of surrealism and fantastic art, including Salvador Dalí (graphics and sculptures), Leonor Fini , Andre Masson , Felix Labisse, Niki de Saint Phalle , Verlon, Rudolf Hausner , Arik Brauer , Ernst Fuchs , Anton Lehmden , Helmut Kies and Wolfgang Hutter .

From 1978 onwards he organized large-scale and museum exhibitions on everyday culture with works of classical modernism in Austria, Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland, including important works by Pablo Picasso , Henry Moore , Marino Marini and Alfred Hrdlicka . He organized numerous large exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Hungary, France and Switzerland with more than 200 pictures and drawings and more than 1,000 works of the graphic work of Salvador Dalí. Extensive catalogs were published for each of these exhibitions.

Habarta is a co-founder of the Fantastmuseum in Vienna , which has been located in Vienna's Palais Pallfy on Josefsplatz since January 2011 . Today he works as a consultant and curator for the museum. He is also helping to set up the international archive of fantastic artists, which is also located in the Palais Palffy.

Gerhard Habarta lives in Lower Austria .

Awards

• 2011: Awarded the professional title of Professor by the Austrian Federal President
• 2003: 1st prize at the German Haiku Competition, Frankfurt Book Fair 2003
• 1999: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• 1986: Dr. Theodor Kery Prize for Art

Books on art and culture

• Picasso manual. Collectors Digest. Books on Demand, 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0931-1 .
• Salvador Dalí - the graphic artist, the sculptor, the writer. ExtraMax publishing house, Kranenburg 2003, DNB 1071236946 .
• Ernst Fuchs -The unicorn between the breasts of the Sphinx. Biography. Verlag Styria, 2001, ISBN 3-222-12851-0 .
• Art in Vienna after '45 - previous conditions. Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85450-045-9 .
• Comic worlds. Catalog book. Ed. Comic-Forum, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900390-62-2 .
• Catalog of the guaranteed genuine & original Engravings of Salvador Dalí, Museum Perrot-Moore. Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-85016-031-9 .
• Les 678 Tres riches Signatures de Salvador Dalí. Collectors Club, 1984, ISBN 3-85016-024-6 .

Books on cultural history

• Virgins quälen- A Cultural History of the bizarre torments of holy women. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-1687-7 .
• It was the woman - the invention of technology by women. Ed. Kult {ur} stories, Seebenstein 2002, ISBN 3-8330-0190-9 .
• Net vü umadum redn - Collected Haiku. Illustrations by Joan Miró. Hamburger Haiku-Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-937257-05-5 .

stories

• Guardian angels don't sing. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-7437-8 .
• Conny's Black Core. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-6318-1 .
• Mr. Goldberg's Variations. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-7432-3 .
• My 23 mothers. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-7435-4 .
• Die Sitzhasengräber of Mirko S. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-7439-2 .
• Saturday speeches: printed as spoken. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-2345-1 .

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Habarta  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The author. Retrieved August 28, 2017 . 
2. ^ Gerhard Habarta. Retrieved August 28, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Int. Phantastenmuseum Vienna . In: Palais Palffy cultural center . ( palais-palffy.at [accessed on August 28, 2017]).
4. ^ Gerhard Habarta . In: Fantastic Visions . August 27, 2010 ( fantasticvisions.net [accessed August 28, 2017]).
5. ^ Hubert Thurnhofer: Gerhard Habarta about the dreamers among the artists. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .