Heidi Langauer

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Heidi Langauer (born June 15, 1939 in Vienna ; † September 1, 2014 in Zollikerberg ZH) was an Austrian / Swiss artist . She worked with the media of painting , drawing and photography .

Career and artistic vita

Heidi Langauer's childhood was shaped by the Second World War and its effects. Her first artistic role model was her grandfather. After graduating from high school, Heidi Langauer took evening courses at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . At the age of 24 she moved from Vienna to Zurich. He married Josef Schmid and had three children. As a result, she took care of her family. She worked full-time as an artist from the 1980s. Her stays abroad took her to New York, Genoa, Paris and Salzburg, among others. Heidi Langauer died on September 1, 2014 in Zollikon.

Heidi Langauer's first gallery exhibitions took place from 1978. This was followed by a lively exhibition activity in Switzerland and abroad, including a stay at the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York (1988) as well as several exhibitions in the art area of ​​Stuttgart (2005). Scholarships and work grants take them abroad at regular intervals.

classification

If you look at Heidi Langauer's pictures, you will see comparisons with the works of Raimund Girke , Brice Marden and Robert Ryman . Her work can therefore be assigned to analytical painting and minimalism .

Work characteristics

Heidi Langauer's art is characterized by its reduction to the essentials and the figurative. This affects both their image content and their choice of colors. Surface and line - in the materials oil and acrylic - are mutually dependent in her work. In the course of her artistic development she has found a complete reduction to the colors white and black. Black and white without overlying gray or other intermediate colors are a long-term characteristic. At the beginning she still painted black and white, later turned it from white to black. The starting point for her artistic "canvas expeditions" were always white or black primed supports. On these, the artist set out on “tours of discovery” with lines and surfaces - in the most varied of forms such as straight lines, curves, circles, circles or ellipses. This usually results in serious abysses as image content. Often they are large-format works of art, occasionally paired as a diptych or series in order to increase the expressiveness of the content.

Another Langauer trademark are the profound and ambiguous titles of her works such as "Was Ariadne's thread white?", "Errlauf", "Weissdichten", "Weiss, I know", "Waiting time" or "Zeit, die, feminine" . Combined with the pictorial language of lines and surfaces, Heidi Langauer's works are also ascribed to extremely poetic traits. Understanding painting as texture is in turn traced back to its Austrian roots.

By means of the rigor of the figurative and the radical restriction of the colors, the artist succeeds in creating a clear focus and direct expressiveness of her works. The following text contribution to the series of works «Was Ariadne's thread white?» This makes this clear: “In the figurative sense, she is rather looking for illuminating ways out of the gloom: with a brush, she depicts extreme contrasts such as light and dark, inside and outside, day and night on canvas. Ariadne's thread is the painted line in white on black or white on white with which the artist pursues this topic stringently. "

System connections and disorders were always the focus of Heidi Langauer, who consistently developed her artistic work over the years. Not only socio-political concern, but also personal experiences and their own, very intimate emotional world found their way into her world of images. Outflows from it were u. a. Topics like femininity, winding paths, alienation, injuries, despair or hope. Ultimately, however, the overarching theme of (life) «time» with the characteristics sequence, experience, retrospect and outlook stands above all as a thematic bracket.

The art critic Annelise Zwez illustrates her motivation to be creative with the subject of “Feminism”: “Expressive figures struggled in dance to justify their existence. Even if Heidi Langauer rarely formulated gender in a concise manner, it was clear that a woman was fighting for her identity in a patriarchal environment. Looking back on the 70s and 80s, this self-confidence process will be recognized as the central theme of art by women during this time. "

The art historian Irene Stoll-Kern (* 1955 in Freiburg as the daughter of the surgeon Ernst Kern ) succinctly sums up Heidi Langauer's artistic motive and result : «Lifetime is limited, tight and tight. What at first looks expressive or playful can turn out to be a threatening entanglement between heaven and hell. Hope lights and fairy lights ultimately precede death. Heidi Langauer's work is extremely consistent, without breaks and is in constant development. Her art, always well thought-out in terms of content, records the imperfections in life like a seismograph and even in the deepest blackness still gives a glimpse of light and even in the most reduced forms the immense wealth of life. "

Picture cycles

“Time is paramount” // “Black is my color” (quotations from Heidi Langauer)

period Cycle title subjects
from 2010 Moon, tree, swing, etc. Origin / poles of life and in the midst of human life
from 1998 White on black Lifetime and ways, closeness - distance, errors and search, femininity
1999 ends black - black ends
1996-2000 Black works Lifetime
Facts & defects humans as networked and vulnerable beings
1993-1995 Fool Sun destructive power of the sun / threat and disturbance
1990 Clones Genetic engineering / reproducibility of the genetic mass

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2015: Galerie Sylva Denzler, Zurich
  • 2012: Galerie Sylva Denzler, Zurich
  • 2011: Kunstkeller, Bern
  • 2009: Galerie Hufschmid Staffelbach, Zurich
  • 2008: Kunstkeller, Bern
  • 2006: Studio exhibition, drawings 05/06 Rote Fabrik , Zurich
  • 2005: Hufschmid Gallery, Zurich; Kunst.Raum, Stuttgart
  • 2004: Kunstkeller, Bern
  • 2004: Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Galerie Repfergasse 26
  • 1999: Forum Vebikus, worsted yarn factory, Schaffhausen
  • 1998: Hufschmid Gallery, Zurich; Kunst.Raum, Stuttgart
  • 1998: Paulus Academy , Zurich
  • 1994: Jochum Gallery, Feldkirch
  • 1989: Kunst.Raum, Stuttgart
  • 1989: Paulus Academy, Zurich
  • 1988: Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art, New York
  • 1988: Radio Studio SRG , Zurich
  • 1986: Neue Galerie, Vienna
  • 1996: Galerie im Hofstöckl (Artclub), Linz
  • 1996: Kunst.Raum, Stuttgart
  • 1996: Paulus Academy, Zurich
  • 1985: Hufschmid Gallery, Zurich
  • 1981: Galerie Steiner, Zurich

Group exhibitions

  • 2019: “black and white”, art focus Zurich
  • 2019: "Come on, May ... Erotica", Galerie Sylva Denzler, Zurich
  • 2018: “10 years Galerie Sylva Denzler”, Zurich
  • 2016: "100 Years of Women Power", Artdock Zurich
  • 2013: “Five women at work”, IG Halle in the art (stuff) house, Rapperswil
  • 2011: «Kunstszene Zürich 2011», Albisrieden free warehouse area, group bunk G 21
  • 2011: Anonymous draftsmen / archive, blütenweiss Berlin; Offspace Sihlquai 55, Zurich
  • 2010: Vebikus, worsted yarn, Schaffhausen
  • 2009: “Catch of the year”, service building, Zurich
  • 2007: Work and studio grants from the City of Zurich 2007; Helmhaus Zurich
  • 2006: Art fair "Art 06", Zurich
  • 2005: Art fair "Art 05", Zurich
  • 2001: Visarte in the culture line, Herrliberg
  • 2000: Homage to Peter Kneubühler, Kunsthaus Grenchen
  • 1998/1999: «Schwarz», Kunsthaus Zürich
  • 1997: Paulus Academy, Zurich
  • 1997: Women Art Forum, Bern
  • 1995: MinoritenGalerien, Graz
  • 1995: Art fair "Art 95", Zurich
  • 1994/1995: Aargau artist, Kunsthaus Aarau
  • 1994: Symposium exhibition Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
  • 1994: “Urban acquisitions 1992/93”, Helmhaus Zurich
  • 1993: Symposium exhibition Kuenberggewölbe, Werfen
  • 1992: "oT" (Zurich artist) Alte Kaserne, Winterthur
  • 1992: «Swiss women artists today». Traveling exhibition (GSBK) through museums in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Works in public collections

Purchases / collections

Awards

  • 2008: Atelier grant from the City of Zurich in Genoa
  • 2005: Fontana-Gränacher-Preis, contribution to work
  • 2003: Atelier stay at Casa Atelier Bedigliora TI
  • 2001: Award / contribution to the STEO Foundation, Zurich
  • 2000: Contribution to the Aargau Board of Trustees
  • 1996: Atelier grant from the Canton of Zurich in Paris
  • 1993: Painter Symposium Burg Hohenwerfen (Salzburg)
  • 1991: Contribution to Esther Matossi Foundation (Zurich)
  • 1990: Contribution to the Aargau Board of Trustees
  • 1989: Gleyre Foundation grant (Federal Office of Culture, Bern)
  • 1988: Funding from the Cassinelli Vogel Foundation (Canton of Zurich)
  • 1987: Studio grant from the City of Zurich in New York

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath: Langauer, Heidi. In: Sikart
  2. ↑ Irene Stoll-Kern: Heidi Langauer . In: Irene Stoll-Kern and Rebecca Gericke-Budliger (eds.): Profession (ung) artist - Ten years of the Fontana-Gränacher Foundation . 1st edition. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-388-6 , p. 38 .
  3. ↑ Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath: Heidi Langauer. SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland, 2006, accessed on September 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath: Heidi Langauer. In: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. 2006, accessed September 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Annelise Zwez: Heidi Langauer. In: Art Bulletin 3/2011. Art bulletin / Schweizer Kunstverein, 2011, accessed on September 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Susanne Kappeler: Condensed white. Heidi Langauer in Rapperswil . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Zurich January 15, 2003.
  7. ↑ Sabine Arlitt: Extensible metaphors for human turmoil. In: http://www.galerie-sylva-denzler.ch . Galerie Sylva Denzler, June 13, 2015, accessed on September 4, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Irene Stoll-Kern: Heidi Langauer . In: Irene Stoll-Kern and Rebecca Gericke-Budliger (eds.): Profession (ung) artist - Ten years of the Fontana-Gränacher Foundation . 1st edition. VERLAG SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-388-6 , p. 37 .
  9. ↑ Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath: Heidi Langauer. In: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. 2006, accessed September 4, 2018 .
  10. ^ Sibylle Omlin: Heidi Langauer: Between allover and graphic object . Ed .: Galerie Hufschmid. 2005.
  11. ^ The Bund: "Was Ariadne's thread white?" / Kunstkeller Bern . Ed .: Bund. Bern April 29, 2004.
  12. ↑ Sabine Arlitt: Heidi Langauer . In: Galerie Margrit Gass (Ed.): Exhibition catalog . Basel 1997.
  13. ↑ Irene Stoll-Kern: Heidi Langauer . In: Irene Stoll-Kern and Rebecca Gericke-Budliger. (Ed.): Profession (un) artist - Ten years of the Fontana-Gränacher Foundation . 1st edition. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-388-6 , p. 36 f .
  14. ↑ Annelise Zwez: Vernissage speech in Galerie Jochum, Feldkirch. February 11, 1994, accessed August 31, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Irene Stoll-Kern: Heidi Langauer . In: Irene Stoll-Kern and Rebecca Gericke-Budliger. (Ed.): Profession (un) artist - Ten years of the Fontana-Gränacher Foundation . 1st edition. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-388-6 , p. 40 .
  16. ↑ Irene Stoll-Kern: Heidi Langauer . In: Irene Stoll-Kern and Rebecca Gericke-Budliger (eds.): Profession (ung) artist - Ten years of the Fontana-Gränacher Foundation . 1st edition. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-388-6 , p. 36 .
  17. ↑ Sabine Arlitt: Extensible metaphors for human turmoil. In: Galerie Sylva Denzler. Galerie Sylva Denzler, June 13, 2015, accessed on September 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Langauer, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2014
Place of death Zollikon