Hubert Berchtold (painter)

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Hills in the Cornfield, 1976

Hubert Berchtold (born April 1, 1922 in Andelsbuch ; † December 1, 1983 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Hubert Berchtold first dealt with painting during the Second World War . He was stationed in Antwerp . In 1942, Berchtold attended the evening course at the art academy , where he made the acquaintance of the Belgian painter Constant Permeke . From 1946 he attended the evening act at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Herbert Boeckl , from 1947 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Josef Dobrowsky , and in 1949 he returned to Bregenz.

Through the artistic stimuli that Berchtold received on his travels through France , Spain and Morocco in the 1950s, he developed his own artistic style for the first time, which is still clearly influenced by German Expressionism , but also stimuli from French painting, especially by Picasso and Georges Rouault shows.

With the beginning of the insect series and the series of still lifes and bottles in the 1960s, he succeeded in developing a completely independent visual language in which figuration and abstract visual design are balanced. His brightly colored figures and room series and the Etruscan series of the 1970s are dynamic compositions that set objects and figures in motion and also reflect his interest in the human body.

From 1973 he made numerous stays in Spain and a first visit to the Andalusian city ​​of Ronda . The preoccupation with southern Spain brought a new turn to the landscape , numerous gouaches and oil paintings with landscape motifs were created. In 1973 he created his very personal examination of prehistory in the series “Cueva de la Pileta” , and in the series “Dogs” an impressive metaphor of death . In 1975 he set up his own atelier in Ronda, where he worked several months a year until his death in 1983. Since the 1960s, Berchtold has carried out numerous commissions for public spaces and the design of glass windows for sacred spaces, particularly in Vorarlberg , Austria.

His last major work in public space is the design of the ballroom of the Vorarlberger Landhaus with a picture frieze of 51 panels in which he realized a kind of imaginary landscape.

Works sacred

  • 1963–1964: Glass mosaic window: Johannes Nepomuk Church in Lorüns

Awards

  • 1948: Prize of the City of Vienna.
  • 1949: Austrian State Promotion Prize.
  • 1966: Hugo von Montfort Prize of the state capital Bregenz.
  • 1968: Theodor Körner Prize from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts.
  • 1980: 1st prize in the competition for the design of the new country house festival hall in Bregenz.
  • 1982: Konstanz Art Prize

Exhibitions

  • xx. -18. August 2013: Hubert Berchtold retrospective . In the Palais Thurn und Taxis in Bregenz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorüns parish Lorüns parish: Short biography of Hubert Berchtold and two photos, accessed on July 1, 2009

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Berchtold, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelsbuch
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1983
Place of death Bregenz