Herbert Danler

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Herbert Danler (born November 24, 1928 in Fulpmes , † July 19, 2011 in Telfes im Stubai ) was an Austrian academic painter .

1949 gained Danler at the secondary school in Innsbruck (today Bundesrealgymnasium Innsbruck on Adolf-Pichler-Platz) the Matura . Between 1949 and 1952 he first learned the painting trade in his father's company in Fulpmes and attended the master school for painting in Baden near Vienna. At the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , Danler studied from 1952 to 1957 with Franz Elsner and Herbert Boeckl and took the subjects of art and craft education. Elsner's focus was on promoting a free artistic personality, whose preferred motifs were landscapes, still lifes, portraits and pictures of animals. Boeckl, who defined innovative ideas for a new landscape, had a strong influence on Herbert Danler; at this the evening act, which is mandatory for all students, was to be attended. He also shared many artistic views with Hans Weber-Tyrol . He also studied history at the University of Vienna . In 1957 he received his diploma for painting and the master school award as well as the gifted sponsorship award from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture . In 1958 he married Theresia Huber from Schwaz , with whom he had a total of six children.

From 1957 to 1984 Danler was an art teacher at the Bundesrealgymnasium in Landeck , where he was able to inspire many of his students for art as well as the many participants in his seminars at the Landecker Volkshochschule. His students included Chryseldis Hofer-Mitterer , Norbert Pümpel and Elmar Peintner . From 1962 to 1971 he also taught at the Pedagogical Academy in Zams , the forerunner of what is now the Edith Stein Church Pedagogical University in Stams . For many years he was also chairman of the Tyrolean art educators. After retiring for health reasons, he left Landeck in 1984 and worked as a freelance artist in Telfes im Stubai since 1985 . As a farewell, the municipality of Landeck awarded him the cultural symbol of honor.

In 1972 Herbert Danler was a founding member of the Elefant Gallery in Landeck, and he created the Elefanten logo. This first private gallery between Innsbruck and Bregenz, operated by Monika Lami (+2018) until 1999, not only became an indispensable forum for cultural workers in the Oberland, but also brought contemporary art closer to a wider audience. The artist group around Monika Lami determined the exhibition program in the early years and also made the decision to accept new members. In 1999 Herbert Danler was awarded the Tyrolean Decoration of Honor. In 2008 he received the Golden Decoration of Honor from the Telfes community in Stubai.

The main focus of his work are works that show the local high mountain landscape and mountain architecture in the local Stubai Valley , the Upper Inn Valley and its side valleys, but above all the Mediterranean-looking Vinschgau ; One of his favorite motifs was, for example, the ruins of the Hochgalsaun in Vinschgau. His main focus was on poor high alpine valleys that were not yet taken over by tourism, which he portrayed in their archaic severity. "In his painting he gives the architecture, which has become and proven over generations, a matter of course of connection and unity with nature and stylizes it with great sensitivity to represent and longing for the past time, which corresponds to our idealization, feeling and imagination of Alpine tradition", so an appreciation of his artistic work. The artist tried to get acquainted with the residents of the area. However, he paid no direct attention to the human figure in the picture and still kept it evident at the core of the statement. The style of his archaic, impulsively created images of the state in front of the object is expressive, and in the late 1970s sometimes almost tilts into the abstract. Archaic beauty and strength, but also existential experiences of painful loss, are expressed in his painted architecture. Danler's work in the 1970s is characterized by the endeavor to break down the motifs found in reality into the form values ​​that are valid according to his current perception and to create new spatial arrangements in the picture with these building blocks. The application of paint is very impasto, the colors are strong, and in the course of his artistic activity he ultimately reduces the real to massive metaphors. "Compressed in a toned color to form heavy-blooded icons." Strong contours and flat compositions are typical, with the exception of some unusually expressive, almost wildly laid out large formats. Danler's handwriting, characterized in his early work by unbroken colors, changed in the later years to the decorative, formal stereotypes, bloodless colors, especially in ocher, brown, gray and white values ​​in the style of cubism , characterized by the will to reduce The abstraction of forms and the monumentality created by silence. Only in his watercolors and gouaches does he come out as an intuitive player with colors and light who also allows the random. Tectonic, broadly painted, spirited landscapes built in the studio could emerge. In these impressions created in front of the motif, Danler is not concerned with an exact image, but with moods during the act of painting, on the basis of which wonderfully airy paper works could be created.

Many of his oil paintings with their earthy colors and strong contours, like his stone prints, now represent evidence of a decaying high mountain architecture that no longer exists today - "swan songs to a world that has almost disappeared." In the etching, Danler achieved a mastery of relentlessly bringing the archaic living conditions to mind and becoming a nostalgic obituary of yesterday. The dual problem of beauty / culture and loss / uprooting characterizes Danler's artistic work and has never let him go, he gives it intuitive-instinctive expression in his pictures.

He has set a lasting and impressive monument to the demise of rural architecture - the lonely farmsteads, small hamlets, old mountain farms and farmhouses, castles and chapels - and is thus a worthy successor to great Tyrolean artistic personalities such as Albin Egger-Lienz , Alfons Walde , Paul Flora or Max Weiler . The important Tyrolean artistic personality was ultimately concerned with essential human experiences and the unchangeable nature of human existence, shaped by the awareness of the coming and going of generations and their real, spiritual and cultural legacies as relics of collective memory. Every progress is double-edged because it is always accompanied by a loss, the loss of traditional values ​​and traditions, combined with new ideologies and a change in social structures.

Danler went on numerous painting trips, including to Spain, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Venice and Calabria. His works have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions and many exhibition participations not only in North and South Tyrol, but also in Vienna, Switzerland and Germany. Particularly noteworthy is one of his last major exhibitions, Herbert Danler - a life's work in 2008 in the pillared hall of the Parliament in Vienna.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Schuchter: Norbert Strolz. In: "Tirol" Summer 2018, p. 20.
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  6. ↑ http://herbert.damaszener.com/
  7. ^ Sabine Schuchter: Norbert Strolz. In: "Tirol" Summer 2018, p. 25.
  8. ↑ http://www.fulpmes.tirol.gv.at/system/web/sonderseite.aspx?menuonr=223955978&detailonr=223955978
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  10. ↑ Edith Schlocker in the Tiroler Tageszeitung on February 7, 2015, p. 12.
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galerie-maier.at
  12. ↑ https://www.stayinart.com/herbert-danler/
  13. ↑ Ibid.
  14. ↑ https://www.dolomitenstadt.at/2015/12/04/adventkalender-lienz-2015-das-vierte-fenster/
  15. ↑ https://www.stayinart.com/herbert-danler/
  16. ^ Obituary by Edith Schlocker, accessed on May 29, 2012
  17. ↑ Edith Schlocker in TT of October 15, 2018, p. 17.
  18. ↑ Edith Schlocker in the Tiroler Tageszeitung on February 7, 2015, p. 12
  19. ^ Fuchs Heinrich: The Austrian painters of the 20th century. Vienna 1992.
  20. ↑ Edith Schlocker in the TT of October 15, 2018, p. 17.
  21. ↑ http://www.kunsthalle-hosp.at/kunstgalerie/kunstwerke-danler-herbert.php
  22. ↑ Edith Schlocker in the Tiroler Tageszeitung on February 7, 2015, p. 12
  23. ↑ https://www.stayinart.com/herbert-danler/
  24. ↑ https://www.dolomitenstadt.at/2015/12/04/adventkalender-lienz-2015-das-vierte-fenster/
  25. ↑ http ://www.mein Bezirk.at/hall-in-tirol/haben/herbert-danler-stell-in-hall-aus-d10850.html
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  27. ↑ http://www.kunsthandel-stock.net/php_root/show_artist_detail.php?p_id=21
  28. ↑ http://www.fulpmes.tirol.gv.at/system/web/sonderseite.aspx?menuonr=223955978&detailonr=223955978
personal data
SURNAME Danler, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian academic painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulpmes
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2011
Place of death Telfes in the Stubai