Herbert Maierhofer

Herbert Maierhofer (born August 14, 1956 in Weiz in Eastern Styria ; † July 23, 2018 there ) was an Austrian artist and planner. His most famous building in Germany is the Illertal-Ost art rest area .

Art rest area Illertal-Ost

Life

In 1976 Maierhofer completed his Matura at the music-pedagogical federal high school at Hasnerplatz in Graz and then began to study architecture at the Technical University there until 1982 , where he was taught by Giselbert Hoke , among others . His son Alexander-David from his marriage to his first wife Margit was born in 1980. This year he is also involved in the “Aggressions” exhibition at the University of Graz with aggression researcher Friedrich Hacker . After moving to the Vienna University of Technology , he studied photography and graphics there with Ingeborg G. Pluhar in 1983 .

From 1986 to 1987 he did his community service as a probation officer in the home for released prisoners in Vienna IV, Sandtwirdgasse. In the following two years he devoted himself to architectural practice in his hometown of Weiz and worked in the Enthaler planning office. In 1989 he became self-employed and opened a planning studio and studio for painting, sculptural design and architectural design in Birkfeld . His son Felix-Mathias was born in 1992 and he married his mother Stilla in 1993. From 1995 to 1997 he created the first German art rest stop (on the federal autobahn 7 between Ulm and Memmingen) under the title “The Geomantic Compass” as a total work of art (architecture, furnishings, artistic design, walk-in sculpture with utility including the sculpture park / Capricorns). Another total work of art, the “ Embrace of Two Galaxies ”, a work for the ADA company in Anger, was created between 1998 and 2000 (architecture, furnishings, artistic design with a total of 33 paintings and 5 sculptures). In December 1999 Maierhofer donated the original picture "CIRCULARIUM" from the art rest area of the aftercare clinic in Tannheim as part of a vernissage . From 2000 to 2001 he worked again in Germany - this time in the art café, which he realized again as a total work of art for “Art Beck” in Erlangen. In 2004 Maierhofer dealt with the painting series Spirals, Galaxies, Explosions and Planets and a year later with oracle paintings and the cycle “Forrest in My Brain” .

Art creation and buildings

Art rest area Illertal-Ost
Commercial buildings, restaurants, banks and apartment buildings; especially in Austria.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions in Austria (PICTURES AND SCULPTURES): Galerie Canerie, Graz - Galerie Raika Birkfeld (paintings) - Galerie Sparkasse Weiz (drawings) - Galerie Rathaus Pinkafeld (objects and paintings) - University of Vienna (photographs). In 2008 he exhibited his “Bilderberg” at Volksbank Gleisdorf - an installation that he put together between 1995 and 2006.

literature

Ralph Johannes, Gerhard Wölki: The Autobahn and its rest stops - history and architecture. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-932526-68-6 , pp. 127-131

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personal data
SURNAME	Maierhofer, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian artist and planner
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wheat . Eastern Styria
DATE OF DEATH	23rd July 2018
Place of death	Weiz , Eastern Styria