Gottfried Mairwöger
Gottfried Mairwöger (born February 4, 1951 in Tragwein ; † October 19, 2003 in Vienna ) was an important representative of abstract painting in Austria.
biography
Gottfried Mairwöger was born on February 4, 1951 in Tragwein / Upper Austria. He attended the music-pedagogical secondary school in Linz, graduated from high school in 1970 and, after completing military service in 1971, was accepted into the master class of Josef Mikl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Mairwöger continued his studies in 1973 with Wolfgang Hollegha . In 1974 he produced his first large-format oil paintings on canvas and works in oil on paper. In 1976, the meeting with the American art critic Clement Greenberg in the Hamburg gallery Wentzel brought the decisive turning point for further artistic work. The extensive study trips through Europe, Asia and the USA also provided valuable impulses for his work. Gottfried Mairwöger died of lung cancer on October 19, 2003 in Vienna .
plant
The Hollegha -Students sets late 1970s, influenced by important representatives of Abstract Expressionism and the second generation of the Color Field Painting (especially Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler ) the tradition of Austrian post-war abstraction in an independent manner on.
In the 1980s Mairwöger often used heavily diluted oil paints and worked on unprimed canvas , similar to the “soak stain technique” developed by Helen Frankenthaler . Towards the end of the 1980s, the opulent fields of color and streams of color were initially replaced by a pasty style of painting with sometimes strict, gestural compositional elements . At the end of the 90s, Mairwöger took up the essential design elements of his first creative period and radically expanded them. Numerous glazing and covering layers of paint are applied to the canvas, partly overlapping, partly in a calm flow, partly with dynamic gestures. The dried color sediments , veils and traces open up a palimpsest-like color space for the viewer . ( Gerald Trimmel )
Solo exhibitions (selection)
Working in public spaces or collections
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Awards
- 1972 Promotion Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
- 1982 Monsignore Otto Mauer Prize
literature
- Dieter Ronte (ed.): Simply good painting. Siegfried Anzinger. Josef Kern. Alfred Klinkan. Gottfried Mairwöger. Peter Marquant. Alois Mosbacher. Kurt Rohrbacher. Hubert Scheibl. Hubert Schmalix. Turi Werkner . Series of publications by the Museum of Modern Art No. 21, Vienna 1983.
- Mairwöger. ¡Benedict e the birds and the bees! Gallery Thiele. With a foreword by Dieter Ronte and a text by Herbert Lachmayer , o. O, o. J. [Linz 1994].
- Stefan Jaeger (ed.): Gottfried Mairwöger . With a foreword by Dieter Ronte. Jaeger & Partner, Munich 2002.
- Stefan Jaeger, Helmut Schützeneder (ed.): Gottfried Mairwöger: The pictures tell me when they are finished . Jaeger & Partner, Munich 2008.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottfried Mairwöger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Internet presence for Gottfried Mairwöger
- http://www.kunsthandelwidder.com/de/kuenstler/GottfriedMairwoeger
- Gottfried Mairwöger at Galerie Amart
- Gottfried Mairwöger in the Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Lydia Altmann: The artist Gottfried Mairwöger . In: mairwoeger.com , April 2015, accessed on August 9, 2017.
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| SURNAME | Mairwöger, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tragwein , Upper Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 2003 |
| Place of death | Vienna |