Helga Hofer
Helga Hofer (* 1955 in St. Florian am Inn ) is an Austrian textile artist , painter and author.
Live and act
Hofer was married to the teacher , writer and art connoisseur Franz Xaver Hofer until his death in 2012 and is the mother of three children. She has been artistically active since the early 1980s. After producing textile work, she turned to oil painting in the mid-1990s . She is self-taught as an artist , but has always dealt with art and acquired fundamental knowledge about art and culture.
Exhibitions (selection)
The artist presents her works mainly in private Austrian galleries. Occasional works could be seen in solo exhibitions in public houses:
- Gallery in Amthof, Feldkirchen in Kärnten , 2000
- Kubin House , Wernstein am Inn , 2002
- Museum of Modern Art, Wörlen Foundation , Passau , 2003
- Vilshofen City Gallery, Vilshofen an der Donau , 2007
- Gallery Schloss Puchheim , Attnang-Puchheim , 2008
Galerie Elfie Bohrer showed works by Hofer in 2010 at the Zurich art fair and the Rytmogram gallery in 2008 as part of the Upper Austrian State Exhibition in the Salzkammergut.
Publications
- Books
- Helga Hofer (ed.): To Marysia - A Family History in Letters 1935 to 1950 , Letters from Hans Joachim and Sofia Breustedt to their daughter Marysia, Salzburg, 2015
- With Franz Xaver Hofer, Annerose Riedl , Alois Riedl , Gerwald Sonnberger , Hans Schusterbauer , Rudolf Weilhartner , Karl Stutz : Children's language , in: Landstrich, Schärding, 1983
- Texts
- In free fall , childhood memories, diary entries, letters, Salzburg, 2015
- Exhibition catalogs
- FORM, COLOR FABEL , 1997
- LIFE BEING , 1998
- IMAGE WORLDS , 2002
- With Franz Xaver Hofer
- Flammengrün , drawings and poems from Paliano, Aspach, 2001
- Flora - plant portraits , pictures and lyrical texts, Aspach, 2005
- With others
- Husch , poems for children, drawings by Helga Hofer, Extra- Die Rampe , Linz, 2001
- Helga Hofer, pictures , catalog book with texts by Carlotta Graedel-Mattei , Jil Silberstein , Helga Hofer, Landstrich-Extra, Brunnenthal, 2011
literature
- Gabriele Spindler : The extraordinary in the ordinary , catalog for the exhibition Pictures Worlds, 2003
- Inga Kleinknecht : Helga Hofer - Traumleben , exhibition in the Kubin House , Wernstein am Inn , 2015
media
- Diana Weidlinger: I knew it straight away: this is the man of my life. In: Upper Austrian News from August 19, 2010.
- Christine Haiden : Helga Hofer and the crescent moon. In: World of Women, May 23, 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva Riebler: Helga Hofer, The child in me, in: Web presence of www.litges.at ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on February 27, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofer, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian textile artist, painter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Florian am Inn |