Helmuth Fetz
Helmuth Fetz (* 1928 ; † September 18, 2010 in Ried im Innkreis ) was an Austrian landscape and portrait painter .
Live and act
After completing an apprenticeship as a painter and house painter, he developed into one of the most famous and successful visual artists in Vorarlberg. In 1964 he was a founding member of the Bregenz Circle and ran a gallery first in Vienna and then in Bregenz . In 1988 he was accepted into the Innviertel Artists Guild and since 1989 he has lived in Mehrnbach in the Innviertel . He became known for his views of cities on Lake Constance and the Innviertel as well as for his portraits of Vorarlberg and Innviertel personalities. He is considered a representative of fantastic realism.
Awards
- Title Professor hc
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The painter Helmuth Fetz has died, in: ORF Vorarlberg.at
- ^ Helmuth Fetz (†): Painter of the New Reality, in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of September 30, 2010
- ^ Sieglinde Frohmann: Contribution to Helmuth Fetz, in: Künstlerlexikon des Saur-Verlag
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SURNAME | Fetz, Helmuth |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1928 |
DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 2010 |
Place of death | Ried im Innkreis |