Hans Wetzelsdorfer

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Hans Wetzelsdorfer (born March 29, 1952 in Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria) is an Austrian freelance artist and photographer .

Life and career

The autodidact Wetzelsdorfer completed advanced training courses at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1985 to 1990 as a guest student. In his career he participated in well over 100 exhibitions in Europe, including numerous solo exhibitions. Outside the Austrian borders, his path took him to St. Petersburg , Paris , Budapest , Milan , Patras , Lucerne , Bratislava , Weimar , London , Zagreb and Mechelen, among others .

In addition to photography as his main subject, his work includes other forms of visual art such as installations and objects.

Wetzelsdorfer is a member of the eu-art-network, the artist group Burgenland KGB, the Lower Austrian initiative for photo and media art FLUSS and the Kunstverein Süd-Ost, as well as the interest groups IG Bildende Kunst und Bildrecht .

Hans Wetzelsdorfer lives and works in Neufeld an der Leitha , Burgenland .

Exhibitions, participations and installations (selection)

  • 1986 Polaroid Gallery Gabriel (Vienna)
  • 1991 Refraction on Emulsion Photo Gallery Vienna
  • 1994 The medium is the truth (Weyer)
  • 2000 Natura Morte-Still Life Lower Austrian Documentation Center for Modern Art (St. Pölten)
  • 2006 Not very amused Gallery OHO (Oberwart)
  • 2007 Landscape Culture Factory (Hainburg)
  • 2008 Photographic Spaces City Museum (Wiener Neustadt)
  • 2011 Think Big Lower Austrian Quarter Festival, with Johann Karner (Lanzenkirchen)
  • 2013 … AND IN EUROPE… Galerie OHO, with Anna Fabricius (Oberwart)
  • 2014 On the green belt FLUSS (Wolkersdorf)

Publications (selection)

  • Typefaces. Provincial Library. Weitra 1999
  • Spatial images. edition lex liszt. Oberwart 2009
  • Burgenland authentic. edition lex liszt. Oberwart 2011
  • The rust of the storks. Self-published in 2014

Awards

reception

“The photographs that we see are unpretentious, mostly taken from eye level, that is, from the perspective that opens up to every visitor on a tour. More than two walls of a room are seldom seen, and often people look through open doors and follow the escape of a hallway. What Hans Wetzelsdorfer considers worth registering is placed in the center of the picture. If their size or specialty requires it, some details are examined very closely. Occasionally the gaze lingers on a found still life, and one thinks to see the author smile and blink eyes to point out the curiosity. If, for example, a shirt is hanging on the clothes rack and the viewer has to wonder whether the man has put on his own work shirt before starting work; or when the portrait photo of a former governor is attached to the roll container and a tendril of the potted plant hangs next to the portrait, as if it were growing in praise of the former governor. "

- Raumbilder, edition lex liszt, Oberwart 2009

“Hans Wetzelsdorfer has a special place in the Burgenland art scene because he is one of the few who uses photography as a means of expression. He always succeeds in creating new, aesthetically challenging images. Always open to new ideas, never sticking to a recipe for success, Hans Wetzelsdorfer, after a phase of dealing with experimental photography, increasingly turns to the reproductive, realistic character of photography and builds on earlier work phases [...] Basically, Hans Wetzelsdorfer's work is always about sensitization or irritation of perception so that the viewer can see the environment with a different look, with different eyes after visiting the exhibition. The variety of his approaches to the environment, his courage to experiment and new forms always bring interesting impulses. "

- Eva Maltrovsky

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burgenland Foundation Theodor Kery
  2. ↑ Timm Starl on Raumbilder .
  3. ↑ Eva Maltrowsky to the work Wetzel Dorfers
personal data
SURNAME Wetzelsdorfer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian freelance artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria