Helmut Heuberger (painter)

Helmut Heuberger (born June 27, 1927 in Vienna ; † January 17, 2001 ) was an Austrian draftsman and painter.

Life

Heuberger attended high school in Vienna, interrupted from military service as an anti-aircraft helper. After the end of the war, he graduated from high school and studied German and English at the University of Vienna . 1949 was the promotion of Doctor of Philosophy. As a member of a choir, he made a trip to the USA with a stay of about 1 year. After returning to Vienna, he worked as a bank clerk until he retired.

Heuberger was an autodidact as a painter / draftsman; he painted since his youth and financed most of his studies with it. In the 1960s he became more intensively involved with painting. In 1966 he had his first solo exhibition in the Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, at that time a leading address in Vienna for exponents of the “ Viennese School of Fantastic Realism ”, by which he was also influenced. Over the years he developed a very personal “handwriting”, the spatial-tectonic structure of the image content was just as important to him as the color texture of surfaces. His subjects are landscapes, houses or groups of houses, still lifes, and occasionally portraits. His oeuvre includes several hundred graphics (pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, etching), gouaches and oil paintings. His wife Gertrude Heuberger geb. Bischof (1927–1999) had shielded him from all trivial things in everyday life, including dealing with galleries and exhibitors for him. The two were deeply connected and he lost the will to live after her death. Helmut and Gertrude Heuberger were buried at the Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof in Vienna.

He had solo exhibitions in Austrian and German galleries and also participated in exhibitions in Austria, Europe and overseas.

literature

• Exhibition catalogs (with reproductions, selection): 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1997; "Vernissage" (1983/88, 1992/93, 1993/99); Auction catalogs ("Dorotheum", Vienna)