Helga Philipp

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Helga Philipp (born June 2, 1939 in Vienna , Austria ; † November 5, 2002 Vienna) was an Austrian artist. After four decades of work, she left behind a diverse oeuvre of sculptures, objects, graphics, paintings and sketches. She worked in clay and stone, made objects out of Plexiglas, mirrors, rubber hoses, concrete and iron, in the area of ​​graphics she worked with tracing paper and graphite. For a long time, the colors of her paintings were determined by aluminum and graphite dust.

Live and act

Helga Philipp completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor at what was then the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and found her way into the Viennese art scene of the post-war period in the mid-1960s. Her kinetic objects, created between 1962 and 1968, can be classified as Op Art . Between 1969 and 1972 he produced several series of silkscreen graphics based on a circular grid.

Graphics made of cardboard rings and embossings with circular motifs were created in 1972 and 1973. Philipp covered the cardboard rings with a layer of graphite by hand. From the circular motif, Philipp finally came to the line in the second half of the 1970s, which she first executed in embossing, then in an object and at the end of the 1970s in several rows of graphics on handmade paper in graphite.

From the mid-80s, beginning with “Domino”, he created those paintings in black and gray tones that were so characteristic of Philipp. The influence of American painting of the 1960s is also noticeable in her “ Shaped Canvases ” as well as in the large formats that were created afterwards, compositions of simple geometric shapes. Layered graphics were created between 1991 and 1996, later a series of graphics on a black background. In later works, especially in those blue-black paintings from around 2000, she increasingly dealt with the dynamics and weighting of contrasting color surfaces. Much of Philipp's work deals with the reflection of light - through the use of metal, silver paper, a water surface or the structure of the applied paint made of graphite and aluminum pigment.

Her colored screen printing cycles were described as a lesson in concrete art (Schrage, 2002).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1968 Vienna, Gallery next to St. Stephan, "Adrian Philipp Kriesche"
  • 1968 Graz, Forum Stadtpark, "Kinetic Objects"
  • 1976 Frankfurt am Main, Patio Gallery, “Art Morning” with Tim Ulrichs and Adam Silk
  • 1976 Vienna, Gallery next to St. Stephan, "Embossings"
  • 1978 Vienna, Modern Art Gallery, "New Works"
  • 1989 Ternitz, Hansenvilla, studio presentation
  • 1991 Ternitz, Hansenvilla, "New Work"
  • 1997 Vienna, Heiligenkreuzerhof, "Helga Philipp"
  • 1997 Vienna, University Center Althanstrasse, "Domino", advertised competition
  • 2001 June 21 to June 23 Symposium “Logic and Poetry in Concrete Art”
  • 2002 Vienna, Splitter Art Gallery, "screen prints"

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965 Zagreb, galerija suvremene umjetnosti, "nova tendencija 3"
  • 1967 Vienna, Museum of the 20th Century, "Kinetika"
  • 1973 Kansas City, Art Research Center, "matrix"
  • 1973 New York, Austrian Institute, “austrian art today”
  • 1973 Vienna, Galerie next St. Stephan, "Real Christmas"
  • 1979 Vienna, Museum of Applied Arts MAK, "Tangenten 70"
  • 1982 Vienna, Modern Art Gallery, "exact tendencies '82"
  • 1992 Graz, Neue Galerie, "Identity: Difference"
  • 1993 Graz, Kulturhaus, "The so-called abstract"
  • 2003 Krems, Kunsthalle Krems , "Mimosas, roses, autumn timeless"
  • 2003 Graz, Kunsthaus Graz, “Imagination. Perception in Art "
  • 2016 Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , "Eye Attack"
  • 2016 Vienna, 21er Haus , "Abstract Loop Austria"

Prices

  • 1967 Vienna, spirit and form
  • 1970 Vienna, tangenten 70, competition "multiples"
  • 1972 Innsbruck, Austrian graphic competition of the Tyrolean provincial government / Prize of the province of Carinthia
  • 1974 grant from the Vienna Art Fund of the Zentralsparkasse
  • 2001 City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts

literature

  • Katrin Draxl: "Helga Philipp - In the eye of the beholder." Diploma thesis for obtaining the master's degree in philosophy from the field of art history submitted to the University of Vienna, October 2006.
  • Anna Spohn: “Helga Philipp - A Monograph.” Dissertation on obtaining a doctorate at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna at the Institute for Culture and Intellectual History, 2006.
  • Dieter Schrage : Pioneer of “concrete art” in Austria: Helga Philipp, in: Wiener Kunsthefte, March 2002.
  • Carl Aigner , Gerald Bast : "Helga Philipp - Poetry of Logic", 2010 ISBN 978-3-211-99141-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exhibition Abstract Loop Austria ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , together with Marc Adrian , Richard Kriesche , Gerwald Rockenschaub @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.21erhaus.at
personal data
SURNAME Philipp, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 2002
Place of death Vienna