Herbert Breiter

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Herbert Breiter (born February 21, 1927 in Landeshut in the Riesengebirge , Silesia; † October 9, 1999 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian painter and lithographer .

Live and act

Breiter came to Austria in 1945. In 1946 he passed the entrance exam to the arts and crafts school in Salzburg. Thereupon received the right of residence in Austria. In 1947 he was granted Austrian citizenship.

Herbert Breiter began to paint as an autodidact and earned money doing arts and crafts. He became a student of Max Peiffer Watenphul , through whom he met other painters and sculptors, a. a. Agnes Muthspiel , his first partner. He was a member a. a. in the artist group Salzburger Gruppe and in the Salzburger Kunstverein . Wider undertook several trips abroad, in particular to Italy (Tuscany, Ponza island). His subjects were landscapes and atmospheric images. In 1961, the art historian Hans Vollmer described his still lifes as "in the character of the Dutch of the 17th century".

Eliette von Karajan was one of his students . In 2012 the historic Peterswacht Bastion in Salzburg's old town was renamed Herbert-Breiter-Terrasse and a memorial plaque was attached.

Exhibitions

(G = group exhibition; K = catalog)

  • 1959: graphics of the present. International exhibition. Contemporary Art Gallery, Salzburg (G, K).
  • 1980: Herbert Breiter. 30 years of printmaking. Welz Gallery , Salzburg.
  • 1982: The Salzburg Group. Exhibitions 1962 , Salzburg (G, K).

Awards

literature

Catalogs, illustrated books:

  • Graphics of the present. International exhibition. Contemporary art gallery. Pustet, Salzburg 1959. (Exhibition catalog, 31 pages).
  • The Salzburg Group . Exhibitions 1962. Pustet, Salzburg 1962.
  • Herbert Breiter: Catalog raisonné of graphics 1965–1980. Galerie Schmücking, Braunschweig 1980. 400 numbered copies.
  • Herbert Breiter: Moments of Duration. With an essay by Karl-Markus Gauß . Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-85349-213-4 . 127 p., Also as a special edition.
  • South Styrian miniatures. Pictures by Herbert Breiter. Text by Karl-Markus Gauss. 2nd Edition. Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-85349-280-0 . Block book, 48 pp.
  • Herbert Breiter: Cities, Mountains, Trees and Walls. Galerie Welz, Salzburg 2012. 30 sheets.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information at galeriemagnet.com
  2. ↑ General Lexicon of Visual Artists of the XX. Century. Volume 5. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 337.
  3. ^ Salzburger Woche , edition of Stadt Nachrichten, February 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ poster .
  5. ↑ Herbert Breiter. A master of graphics. In: Salzburger Nachrichten , December 19, 1992, laudatory speech by Karl Heinz Ritschel .
personal data
SURNAME Wider, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH State hat in the Giant Mountains , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1999
Place of death Salzburg