Ingrid Steininger

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Ingrid Steininger (* 1940 in Amstetten ; † 1998 in Langenstein ) was an Austrian ceramist , sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

She was born in Amstetten in 1940 and grew up in Aschach an der Donau . Her father was the painter Norbert Karner. From 1959 she studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, first with Carl Unger , and later with Heinz Leinfellner .

Already during her studies she participated in exhibitions. In 1964 she finished her studies with a diploma for sculpture and ceramics and was awarded the advancement award of the city of Vienna . Ingrid Steininger became a freelance artist and also worked as a stage sculptor at the Salzburg Festival .

In 1971 she and her family settled in Langenstein , looked after their 8 children and continued her artistic work with various commissioned works in ceramics and plastic . In addition to artistic work in bank buildings, she designed a memorial in memory of the victims of the " Mühlviertel hare hunt " in Schwertberg .

Numerous projects in the regional area followed, including in schools and kindergartens, as well as in the artistic stage design of the Theater im Hof in Mauthausen .

In 2008 the municipality of Mauthausen organized an Ingrid Steininger exhibition in the municipal office.

Ingrid Steininger Culture Promotion Prize

In 2008, the market town of Mauthausen announced the Ingrid Steininger Culture Promotion Prize for the first time, which is endowed with € 2,000. The award sees itself as support for the realization of cultural projects in Mauthausen, for the promotion of a diverse cultural life, especially where new paths are broken, promotion of the artistic potential in Mauthausen and support with publication and professionalization as well as training and further education.

Prize winners are

  • 2009 “Die Notenfresser” of the Mauthausen market music band
  • 2010 Parish choir "musica viva" for the cantata "Homo homini lupus" composed by Alfred Hochedlinger and written by Werner Wöckinger
  • 2011 The Spaniard Graciela Santana Sosa, who lives in Mauthausen, for her photo project “Portraits as a way to get closer to the lives of people and their role in the social fabric”.
  • 2013 Renate Billensteiner for her photo project “Das blinde Feld” and the trio Frauenherzen with Birgit Gassner, Andrea Burger and Marlene Bauer for their theater project “Ultimatum”.
  • 2015 Helmuth Hinterndorfer (posthumously), musician, and the Mauthausen Singing Group
  • 2017 Werner Wöckinger for the photo book on the subject of youth football and the rural youth Mauthausen for a play together with asylum seekers

Works

Roller ferry monument by Ingrid Steininger on the Heindlkai in Mauthausen
Facade design at the Gutau municipal office
  • Roller ferry monument in Mauthausen, "Flying Bridge 1902 to 1962". The monument commemorates the last crossing of the Danube by the taxi ferry on January 14, 1962. After the opening of the new Danube road bridge in 1961, the taxi ferry lost its purpose. The monument consists of an irregular granite block with a weight of around 13 tons lying on a base. The two-sided relief shows the stylized view of Mauthausen with the taxi ferry.
  • “Ship's Train” shows the ship's train being pulled upstream by horses. The relief was made in 1985 for the Mauthausen Volksheim and is now in the Mauthausen municipal office.
  • Relief, originally in the old Mauthausen senior citizens 'home, since 2009 in the new Mauthausen senior citizens' center
  • Commissioned work in Upper Austrian bank buildings (Upper Austrian Raiffeisen central bank in Linz, Hypogalerie in Linz, Raiffeisen banks in Perg , Mauthausen, Ried in der Riedmark , Aschach an der Donau and Zell an der Pram )
  • Memorial Mühlviertel Hare Hunt in Schwertberg
  • Art in architecture: facade of the Gutau municipal office

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Glück: Ingrid-Steininger-Kulturförderpreis presented , in: Bezirksrundschau Perg from September 19, 2017, queried on January 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Eckhard Upper bracket : District Perg - Art and History. Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-85499-826-6 , p. 110.
  3. ↑ Eckhard Upper bracket: District Perg - Art and History. Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-85499-826-6 , p. 107.
personal data
SURNAME Steininger, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ceramist, sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Amstetten , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Langenstein , Upper Austria