Gotthard Muhr

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Gotthard Muhr (born December 30, 1939 in Schwanenstadt / Upper Austria ; † September 17, 2013 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, sculptor and university professor.

Life

Gotthard Muhr was the son of an Upper Austrian coffin carpenter and undertaker. From 1958 to 1964 he studied with Max Melcher in the master class for painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . After graduating, he lived as a freelance artist in Vienna and Burgenland. In 1965 he had his first solo exhibition in the Galerie Kontakt in Linz. In 1966 he received the Austrian State Prize for Graphics.

Together with Arnulf Rainer he took part for Austria at the II International Graphic Biennial in Krakow , and in 1970 at the 7th International Graphic Biennial in Tokyo. At the XIII. In 1975 he was the official representative of Austria together with Cornelius Kolig and Hans Staudacher .

In 1966 he joined the artists' association MAERZ. at. He had been a member of the Vienna Secession since 1971 , during his time as a board member (1983-1993) the renovation and artistic realignment of the house took place in the mid-1980s - under the presidency of Edelbert Köb . Since 1976 he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Awards

  • 1962 Silver Companion Medal
  • 1966 Austrian State Prize for Graphics
  • 1966 Prize of the Province of Lower Austria at the 10th Austrian graphics competition in Innsbruck
  • 1983 1st prize Römerquelle art competition

Work and reception

He became known in the 1960s for his etchings and woodcuts. In a commemorative publication for the 280th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts, he is described as one of the “most important former students of the master school for graphics”. As a sculptor he worked with the materials plaster of paris, clay, stone and wood and Otto Breicha placed him in the great Austrian tradition that was shaped by Fritz Wotruba . In his painting of the early seventies he is considered a forerunner of the Neue Wilde . Numerous study trips lasting several months, especially to African countries, were also reflected in the work, for example in the lithographic portfolio “From an Egyptian Journey” published by the Rupertinum Salzburg . Peter Baum interprets Muhr's work "as a continuation of the great expressionist tradition ... for which we have names like Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka , Alfred Kubin and Richard Gerstl ". Kristian Sotriffer sees him as "located between Goya and Art Brut ". Otto Breicha, on the other hand, does not even want to classify him: "He does not need to get excited about the trains bursting out into the various artistic directions, because he knows cleverly and confidently what he wants and where he wants to go."

literature

  • Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government (Ed.): Intersection Burgenland. Paths of Art into the 21st Century. WAB Volume 145, Eisenstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-85405-195-4 .
  • Wieland Schmied (Hrsg.): History of the fine arts in Austria. Volume 6: 20th Century Munich, London, New York: Prestel 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2516-7 .
  • Peter Baum : Expressionism in Austria. Figure, landscape, portrait 1900 to 2000. Lentos Art Museum Linz 2002.
  • Otto Breicha : Wotruba and the consequences. Austrian sculpture since 1945 . Salzburg: Rupertinum 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Lange: Two young artists in the gallery contact. Gotthard Muhr shows etchings . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, November 10, 1965, p. 3
  2. ↑ II Międzynarodowe Biennale Grafiki Kraków 1968 (IIe Biennale Internationale de la Gravure Cracovie 1968). Kraków 1968,
  3. ^ IIe Biennale Internationale de la Gravure Cracovie 1968 (poster)
  4. ^ The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Ed.): The International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo . Tokyo 1970
  5. ^ Fundação Bienal de São Paulo: XIII Bienal de São Paulo . 1975, pp. 45, 49 f
  6. ^ Association of Visual Artists, Vienna Secession (ed.): The Vienna Secession. The Association of Fine Artists 1897-1985 . Vienna et al .: Böhlau Verlag 1986, p. 7, ISBN 3-205-05025-8
  7. ↑ old and modern art , 12th year, issue 91, 1967, p. 51
  8. ↑ Decision in the Austrian graphics competition. The jury examined 885 entries in Innsbruck . In: Tiroler Tageszeitung, April 2, 1966, p. 8
  9. ^ Römerquelle art competition . In: Vernissage, May 1983
  10. ^ Academy of Fine Arts (ed.): Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna 1872-1972. 100 years of the university statute, 280 years of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . Vienna 1972: p. 57
  11. ↑ Otto Breicha: Wotruba and the consequences. Austrian sculpture since 1945. Rupertinum, Salzburg 1994, pp. 180–183.
  12. ↑ Dietgard Grimmer (Ed.): Otto Breicha. Good for printing. The portfolio editions with original graphics for the Rupertinum . Salzburg: Salzburger Landessammlungen Rupertinum 1997, pp. 156–161
  13. ↑ Peter Baum (Ed.): XIII. Bienal de São Paulo 1975 . Linz: New Gallery of the City of Linz Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum 1975
  14. ↑ Kristian Sotriffer: Gotthard Muhr . In: Die Presse, Schaufenster, March 25, 1977, p. 2
  15. ↑ Otto Breicha: Wotruba and the consequences. Austrian sculpture since 1945 . Salzburg: Rupertinum 1994, p. 182
personal data
SURNAME Muhr, Gotthard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist, sculptor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwanenstadt , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 2013
Place of death Vienna