Hildegard Joos

Hildegard Joos (born May 7, 1909 in Sieghartskirchen , Lower Austria ; † January 17, 2005 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and an important representative of abstract painting and constructivism .

Life

Hildegard Joos spent her childhood in Lower Austria. After the Second World War she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

In 1958 she was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Vienna Secession , of which she was a member from 1954. From 1959 until today she had a studio together with her husband Harold Joos in Paris . She has been shaped by the Paris Salon des Réalités Nouvelles since she became a member there in 1972.

Joos was referred to as the “grande dame” of abstract painting in Austria. Chessboard and grid pictures were an important part of her artistic work. Her first works, however, were figurative, colorful and expressive.

Initially, the artist couple signed their joint works with “Hildegard Joos”, from 1980 with “H + H Joos”.

Hildegard Joos was 95 years old.

In 2014, the Viennese gallery owner and art dealer Martin Suppan organized a retrospective of the late artist Hildegard Joos in the Künstlerhaus Wien with over 140 works .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1958 First personal exhibition in the Vienna Secession
• 1960 Wiener Konzerthaus
• 1961 Young Generation Vienna
• 1962 Hildegard Joos, main room of the Vienna Secession
• 1964 Hildegard Joos, main room of the Vienna Secession
• 1965 Galerie Jeunes, Paris
• 1966 Hildegard Joo's oeuvres récentes. Peintures-Gouaches, Amsterdam, Prinzengracht, Anne Frank Stichting
• 1967 Hildegard Joos, oil paintings, gallery of the Vienna Secession
• 1968 Palazzo Artelli, Trieste
• 1969 bridge, Bielefeld
• 1971 CRD P Orleans, France
• 1972 Gallery Stubenbastei Vienna
• 1975 Grohmann Gallery, Munich
• 1978 Modern Art Gallery Vienna
• 1980 Hildegard Joos, painting and graphics 1959–1979, main room of the Vienna Secession
• 1984 Hildegard & Harold Joos, Museum of Modern Art Vienna
• 1984 Monochrome pictures from the 1960s, Schloss Buchberg am Kamp, Lower Austria
• 1989 Hildegard & Harold Joos, Narrative Geometrisms, Museum of Modern Art Linz
• 1994 H + H Joos, Narrative Geometrisms, Space Narrative Pictures and Color Field 1990–1993, Lower Austria State Museum
• 1996 H + H Joos, Rot-Blau series, Egon Schiele International Cultural Center, Krumau
• 1997 H + H Joos, From the beginning until today, Austrian Gallery Belvedere
• 2005 “In Memorian Hildegard Joos” Austrian Gallery Belvedere
• 2014 Hildegard Joos retrospective at the Künstlerhaus Vienna, Suppan Fine Arts
• 2015 H + H Joos, abstract • constructive • narrative, works on paper 1952 and 2000, Suppan Fine Arts
• 2017 H + H Joos, works on paper, Suppan Fine Arts

Public collections (selection)

• Belvedere Gallery, Vienna
• Lower Austrian State Museum, St. Pölten
• MUMOK, Vienna
• Albertina Museum, Vienna
• Lentos Museum, Linz
• Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus
• Artothek des Bundes, Vienna
• Lower Austria State Museum, St.Pölten

Awards

• 1987: Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts
• 1990: Appreciation award from the state of Lower Austria

Web links

• Literature by and about Hildegard Joos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Death report on ORF. ORF , April 21, 2007, archived from the original on April 21, 2007 ; Retrieved October 17, 2013 . 
• Entry on Hildegard Joos in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Hildegard Joos retrospective in the Künstlerhaus Vienna
• H + H Joos. Monoɡraphy for the retrospective. Viennaː Edition Suppan Fine Arts, 2014, ISBN 3-901255-37-0 ( online )