Hubert Schmalix

Hubert Schmalix (born December 17, 1952 in Graz ) is an Austrian visual artist .

Life

Temporary art in buildings at the Ringturm in Vienna: the tower of art in bloom (detail) (2008)

Hubert Schmalix studied from 1971 to 1976 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Max Melcher . In 1976 he had his first solo exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna . In 1983 he took part in the art exhibition Aktuell 83 in the Lenbachhaus , Munich. In 1984 Schmalix went abroad. In Sydney he immediately found an exhibition opportunity at the Biennale . He stayed in the Philippines for a while, then in the USA, and in 1987 he moved to Los Angeles , where he still lives today.

Since 1997 he has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Works

At the beginning of the 1980s he became internationally known as an exponent of " New Painting ". After his time in the Philippines, where he married a local, his style changed from "expressionistic-wild" to banal, naive and quiet. A frequent motif is his wife, whom he depicts on an almost monochrome green, red or ocher colored background, often only with painted objects that appear alibi. Schmalix also designed the parish church of St. Paul in the Riedenburg district of Salzburg.

Museums with works

• Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
• New Gallery Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum
• Essl Collection - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg
• Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum
• Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna
• Bank Austria Kunstforum , Vienna
• Museum of Admont Abbey

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anja Lösel: Entrückte Akten. Lucerne: Hubert Schmalix . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg April 1987, exhibitions, p. 122 .

Web links

Commons : Hubert Schmalix  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hubert Schmalix in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.schmalix.com
• Hubert Schmalix in the Essl Collection
• Hubert Schmalix in the Krinzinger Gallery
• 1look. Art in the vestibule. Hallein 2016 [1]