Helmut Ditsch

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Helmut Ditsch (born July 6, 1962 in Villa Ballester , Province of Buenos Aires ) is an Austrian - Argentine painter.

Helmut Ditsch

Life

Helmut Ditsch on the Nordkette in Tyrol / Austria 1997

Ditsch's grandparents came from Austria, Germany and Northern Italy and had emigrated to Argentina around 1920. The early death of his mother and thus the subject of life and death shaped and occupy him to this day. At the age of eight he got to know the Andes and the pampas .

In 1983 Helmut Ditsch began to work as a freelance artist . After two years he interrupted his artistic work after his first negative experiences with the gallery business. Instead, he undertook numerous expeditions in the Argentine Andes and became an extreme mountaineer. In 1986 he began to paint again, his experiences in the mountains flowed into his work, and he increasingly moved away from surrealism . For him, painting and experiencing nature are an analogy.

In 1988 Helmut Ditsch moved to Vienna to study. In 1993 he completed his painting studies at the Academy of Fine Arts with distinction. The artist Ulrich Gansert was one of his most important professors .

In the following year he installed his studio near Vienna. In Merano he met the mountaineer Reinhold Messner , with whom he has worked again and again since then. Helmut Ditsch crossed the Patagonian Ice Cap in 1995 as part of a study trip and in 1998 spent several weeks studying for his painting The Mountains in isolation in the Austrian Alps. Again and again he made trips to natural landscapes to get templates for his pictures. In addition to painting, Ditsch works as a designer for fashion, cars and airplanes and as a wine producer. Universities invited him to give lectures. In 2000 he set up his studio in Ireland, where he has lived and worked ever since.

In 2006 Helmut Ditsch presented his book The Triumph of Nature as part of a solo exhibition at the “32. Feria International del Libro “in Buenos Aires. More than a million people visited this international book fair.

Helmut Ditsch recording his first music album "Del Final de los Tiempos" in Buenos Aires (June 2016)

In 2008 he founded the "Helmut Ditsch Fan Fabrica de Arte Nacional", a transparent laboratory for art, music, philosophy and high technology design. First drafts for the LE MANS Super Sport Car HD1. In 2009 his wife Marion died very young.

In 2010, Ditsch became the most expensive Argentinian artist of all time with the sale of the painting Das Meer II for US $ 865,000. In the same year he began his exhibition tour "Gira Nacional y Popular" (previous stations: Santa Fe, Paraná, Rosario, Vienna, Mar del Plata, Mendoza). The exhibitions are characterized by their inclusive nature and take place in public places with free admission.

In June 2016 Helmut Ditsch recorded his first music album “Del Final de los Tiempos” in Buenos Aires.

In 2017 he begins his largest painting to date. He paints the famous Perito Moreno Glacier on a 2 × 12 meter canvas . 

Helmut Ditsch (2018)
Helmut Ditsch (2018)
Painting by Helmut Ditsch (detail)

Works (selection)

In his work he deals with the extreme natural phenomena of mountains, deserts, ice and water. As an extreme mountaineer , he lets his own experiences of nature become visible in his pictures. He assigns his work to the art division of experienced realism .

  • Cycle IV , 1991
  • Above the Güßfeldt Glacier , 1993
  • Cerro Ameghino , 1994
  • Aconcagua , 1994
  • Klagenfurt Basin , 1996
  • Death Valley IV , 1996
  • Mountain Range , 1998-1999
  • Death Valley? , 1995-2000
  • The Answer , 1997-2000
  • Ötscher , 1998-2000
  • Descalza , 1999-2000
  • Point Of No Return , 2001
  • The ice and ephemeral eternity , 2001–2002
  • The ten commandments II , 2002
  • Los Hielos , 2002
  • Cosmigonon , 2002
  • Traunsee , 2003
  • The Sea I , 2004
  • Cafayate , 2004
  • Perito Moreno , 2004
  • So Zarathustra spoke , 2004
  • The Sea II , 2005
  • Point Of No Return II , 2005
  • K2 , 2006
  • Hafner , 2012

Prizes and awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983 Municipalidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1983 Centro Cultural Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1995 Hipp-Halle, Gmunden, Austria
  • 1997 Bau Holding Kunstforum, Klagenfurt, Austria
  • 2001 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2001 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
  • 2002 “Masters / Works in the Belvedere”, Museum Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Vienna, Austria
  • 2003 Kunsthalle Krems , Krems, Austria
  • 2005 “The Triumph Of Nature”, “tresor” at BA-CA Kunstforum , Vienna, Austria
  • 2006 "The Triumph Of Nature", at the Casa Ditsch, Lesachtal, Austria
  • 2006 32nd Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2009 19th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • 2010 Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • 2010 Howard Johnson Hotel, Paraná, Argentina
  • 2010 Bar “El Cairo”, Rosario, Argentina
  • 2010 Heldenplatz , Vienna, Austria
  • 2011 Plaza del Agua, Mar del Plata, Argentina
  • 2012 Cultural Center “Espacio Contemporáneo de Arte”, Mendoza, Argentina
  • 2012 MERCOSUR - UNASUR Summit, Hotel Intercontinental, Mendoza, Argentina
  • Since May 2012 permanent exhibition in the Casa Rosada , Salón Eva Perón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990 “Master School Brewers Upper Belvedere '90”, Museum Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Vienna, Austria
  • 1991 “Die Kunst”, Messepalast, Vienna, Austria
  • 1992 Municipal Gallery Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  • 1994 "Realism Today", City Museum Erlangen, Germany
  • 1994 “Kick off”, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , Austria
  • 1998 “Over the Mountains”, Lower Austrian State Museum , St. Pölten, Austria
  • 1999 "10. Faistauer Prize 1999 “, Gallery in the Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2000 "Painting: Austrian Artists Today", Graphic Collection Albertina and Suppan Contemporary , Vienna, Austria
  • 2001 “Festészet nevében”, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2001 “I Bienal Internacional de Arte de Buenos Aires”, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Córdoba, Argentina
  • 2002 "Mo (u) numental", Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum , Innsbruck, Austria
  • 2002 “Beautiful View”, Merano Art, Italy
  • 2004 “Landscape Phenomenon”, Lower Austrian State Museum , St. Pölten, Austria
  • 2004 Messner Mountain Museum , Sulden, Italy
  • 2004 Strabag Artlounge, Vienna, Austria
  • 2005 "Figure and Reality - the BA-CA Art Forum on tour in the Ferdinandeum ", Innsbruck, Austria
  • 2006 "Insights", works from the art collection of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2006 Messner Mountain Museum , Bolzano, Italy
  • 2008 Expo 2008 , Zaragoza, Spain
  • 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair 2010, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2012–2013 special exhibition “ Die Hohen Tauern ”, Salzburg Museum , Austria

Pictures in permanent collection (selection)

  • Messner Mountain Museum Firmian : Aconcagua , The answer , K2
  • Messner Mountain Museum Ortles : Perito Moreno
  • Lower Austrian Provincial Museum : Ötscher
  • Strabag Art Forum: The Last Day
  • BIG Collection (Federal Real Estate Company):
    • Regional court Klagenfurt: Klagenfurt Basin
    • District court Spittal an der Drau: The ice and the fleeting eternity
    • Federal Police Directorate Villach: Großglockner II
    • Tax office Villach: Cafayate , Das Meer III
    • City gallery Klagenfurt: Großglockner I

Publications

  • Carl Aigner: The Triumph of Nature. The Paintings of Helmut Ditsch . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3269-4 (monograph).
  • Contributions and articles in various international catalogs and magazines, including: Elle Argentinia (Buenos Aires), El Mercurio (Santiago, Chile), Weltkunst (Munich), Wirtschaftsblatt (Vienna), Krone (Vienna), Kurier (Vienna), Neue Zürcher Newspaper (Switzerland), La Nacion (Buenos Aires), Clarin (Buenos Aires)
  • Carl Aigner: Helmut Ditsch: The Triumph of Painting . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4209-2 (monograph).

Web links

Commons : Helmut Ditsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Una obra de Helmut Ditsch batió el récord histórico para el arte arte argentino . In: Diario Clarín , August 26, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Ditsch, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Argentine painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina