Heinz Goll (artist)

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Hannes Heinz Goll (born August 31, 1934 in Klagenfurt ; † January 27, 1999 in Sibaté / Cundinamarca near Bogotá ) was an Austrian sculptor , graphic artist and painter who was mainly active in Colombia .

biography

Heinz Goll came from a middle-class Klagenfurt family - his father a well-known lawyer, his mother Johanna (née Frühauf) Soubrette at the Klagenfurt City Theater - but broke his education after attending three secondary schools in Klagenfurt, St. Paul / Lavanttal and Villach 15 years. In a ceramics school in Beernem , Belgium , he learned how to use material as a handicraft and then continued his self-didactic training in various European cities in arts and crafts painting, sculpting and engraving techniques. After longer stays in Flanders and Vienna, where he made closer acquaintance with Friedensreich Hundertwasser , whose influence was noticeable for a long time in Goll's products, he returned to Klagenfurt in 1959, where immediately afterwards he received a prize in the announcement of the state memorial (stations of the cross at Kreuzbergl ) received. During the 1960s he was considered the enfant terrible of the local art scene, who shocked the public with exotic happenings. In 1964, together with Werner Lössl , he started the “Green Gallery” at the Heiligengeistschütt in Klagenfurt , an open-air exhibition that later also took place in Freiburg i.Br. , Colmar and Innsbruck , then founded the art collective Mieger in 1970 in the "Käferkeusche" on the Sattnitz , as well as other art circles such as Circulo 13, Kontaktofen, Spielkreis Kärnten, Werkstatt X-Art Austria. With his self-developed art therapy , he treated adolescents with behavioral problems and drug addicts in a self-initiated Carinthian workshop program.

To escape provincialism, he went to South America for the first time in 1974, lived there for some time in Caracas , where he also founded a workshop analogous to his Carinthian art therapy project. After another stay in South America in Colombia, he finally settled there in 1979 near Bogotá , where he met his future wife, the psychologist Piedad Tamayo-Goll, in Sibaté.

"Wörthersee-Mandl", 1962

In his work he had been shaped by the role model effect of archaic culture since the 1950s. South America, however, led to an artistic reorientation, inspired by pre-Columbian symbolism and indigenous art, which is evident in his depiction of Jesus Christ crucified at the altar of the Christ the King Church in Krumpendorf . He liked to mix sacred and erotic things, which is particularly evident in his naked Madonnas. Many of his pictures show people who are bound and politically persecuted in Colombia or people on the run. His last major commission was in 1997, a triptych of the Last Supper and 20 other works for the University Chapel of Tunja in Colombia.

When he got carried away to his first exhibition in decades in his Austrian homeland at the end of the 20th century, he was diagnosed with leukemia and hepatitis C. A few days later he died in his adopted home in Sibaté hospital, the place where he spent many years of his life and where he is buried today.

His most famous work in the Carinthian homeland is the only 60 cm small " Wörthersee -Mandl" with kegs (1962) made of bronze, in the fountain in Kramergasse in Klagenfurt; Among other things, he illustrated Heinz Pototschnig's volume of poems Nachtkupfer with linocuts . The exhibition in Klagenfurt that he had announced took place posthumously from December 1999 to January 2000 in the local “Stadthaus”. On the occasion of the 10th year of his death, his Colombian picture cycle was shown in "Haus Grünspan" in Mühlboden / Feffernitz ( Paternion municipality ) in Carinthia in May 2009 , supplemented in June 2009 by the presentation of predominantly craft bronze sculptures in Völkermarkt with archaic Venus figurations, erotic temple dancers, female priestly figures, crosses with geometric patterns and sun rays, as well as so-called "icons" from the 1970s.

Throughout his life, Goll's main theme remained the portrayal of people and their existential questions, whereby over time the confrontation with the social and socio-critical side of art became increasingly important for him, so that his strongly individualistic creations, despite their closeness to the arts and crafts, can also be seen as An artist's protest against a mechanization and overcivilization of the world that is perceived as threatening.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Wlattnig: Heinz Goll (1934-1999) - short biography . Information sheet on the Heinz Goll exhibition . A life for art - the sculptural work , June 19 - October 4, Völkermarkt 2009.
  2. ^ Heinz Goll exhibition , Südwind Magazin, May 2009.
  3. ↑ Heinz Goll - Klagenfurt-Colombia  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2008, p. 2.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.k08.at  
  4. ↑ Hans-Peter Premur: "The interrogation by Pilatus" (Johannes 18, 33b - 37) , Ö1 , November 26, 2006.
  5. ↑ Ralf Leonhard: The Master of the Naked Madonnas , Südwind Magazin 12/1999, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Timeline of Carinthia cultural history, archive publisher
  7. ^ Heinz Pototschnig: Nachtkupfer , poems. With a foreword by Walther Novotny. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1962
  8. ↑ Vernissage: The Colombian cycle, Heinz Goll, Haus Grünspan ( Memento from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Robert Wlattnig: Heinz Goll (1934-1999) - short biography . Information about the exhibition Heinz Goll. A life for art - the sculptural work , June 19 - October 4, Völkermarkt 2009.

literature

  • Piedad Tamayo-Goll (Ed.): Heinz Goll - 1934–1999. His life, his work . With contributions by Karl Matthäus Woschitz , Orlando Mejía Rivera , Héctor Rojas Herazo , Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 978-3-850-13877-2
  • Silvie Aigner: The development of sculpture and object art . In: Silvie Aigner (ed.): Emancipation and confrontation. Art from Carinthia 1945 to today , Springer, Vienna-New York 2008, Vol. 1, ISBN 978-3-211-75624-9 , pp. 126–168
  • Karl Ginhart , Ernst Bacher, Gabriele Russwurm-Biró u. a .: Dehio. The art monuments of Austria: Carinthia. 3rd ed., Ed. v. Bundesdenkmalamt, Verlag Berger , Horn, Lower Austria, 2001, ISBN 978-3-85028-398-4 .
  • Ralf Leonhard: The master of the naked Madonnas. Artist portrait: Heinz Goll (Klagenfurt, 1934 - Bogota, 1999) . In: Südwind 12 (1999) pp. 10-11, as well as in: Latin America Anders No. 11/12 (1999), pp. 26-27
  • Irina Lino: Only love counts. In: The bridge. carinthia • art • culture 24 (2001/02), pp. 22–24
  • Richard Milesi, Leopoldine Springschitz: Kärntner Kunst 1900 [nineteen hundred] - 1970: State exhibition 1970. Verlag Exhibition Board of Culture Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1970
  • Robert Wlattnig: Heinz Goll. In: Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon , KG Saur, Munich-Leipzig 2008, Vol. 57, ISBN 978-3-598-22797-4 , pp. 362–363

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personal data
SURNAME Goll, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goll, Hannes Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt , Carinthia , Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1999
Place of death Sibaté near Bogotá , Colombia