Johann Fischer (painter)

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Johann Fischer (born October 5, 1919 in Eggendorf am Wagram , Lower Austria ; † September 23, 2008 ) was an Austrian visual artist.

biography

Johann Fischer was born on October 5, 1919, the third of seven children in Eggendorf am Wagram , Lower Austria . His parents ran a small farm with viticulture . Fischer completed an apprenticeship as a baker. In 1940 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and became an American prisoner of war. After the end of the war and his return, he took over his parents' farm. 1957 went to Fischer for the first time in psychiatric treatment. From 1961 he became a permanent patient in what was then the “ Gugging Sanatorium ”. In 1982 he moved to the “Center for Art Psychotherapy” founded by the psychiatrist Leo Navratil , today's House of Artists , Maria Gugging. Inspired by his creative environment there, Fischer soon took up drawing materials himself and began to draw regularly. As early as 1983 he took part in an exhibition of the artists from Gugging in what was then the Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna. From 1984 onwards, the complex graphic fabrics of drawing and writing that were central to his work were created.

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At the center of Johann Fischer's work are tightly interwoven compositions of drawing and writing that deal with topics such as family , agriculture , Catholicism and the political situation in Austria . The materials he used were pencil and colored pencil . On large-format sheets of paper, Fischer drew brightly colored people , animals , plants and machines , around which he grouped written explanations, the reading direction of which is given by a numbering system. The writing elements in Fischer's work have the character of an individual calligraphy , which the artist himself referred to as "inscriptions".

Solo exhibitions

  • 1990: Johann Fischer , Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne .
  • 1993: Johann Fischer , Charlotte Zander Gallery, Munich .

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983: Museum of the 20th Century , Vienna.
  • 1985: The artists from Gugging , Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau.
  • 1991: Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
  • 1993: Gugging la casa degli artisti , Fondazione Galleria Gottardo, Lugano .
  • 1994: Tigerlachen - Löwenttrieb , Galerie Curtze, Vienna.
  • 1995: Together - Against each other , Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne.
  • 1997: Autonomes CulturCentrum, Weimar .
  • 2004: Slovak National Gallery , Bratislava.
  • 2006: Objet Trouvé, Paris.
  • 2009: gugging classics 2nd! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging; gugging.! in Vienna , Bank Austria Kunstforum , Vienna.
  • 2011: gugging classics 4th! , museum gugging, Maria Gugging.
  • 2013: weltallende - august walla and the artists from gugging , Werner Berg Museum , Bleiburg; small formats.! , museum gugging, Maria Gugging.
  • 2014: gugging masterpieces.! , museum gugging, Maria Gugging; Faces from Gugging , art gallery fürth, Fürth.
  • 2017: Gugging. The crazed in the Hot Zone , Galerie Christian Berst, Paris.
  • 2018–2021: brain feeling.! art from gugging from 1970 to the present day , museum gugging, Maria Gugging.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Nina Ansperger, Maria Höger: Johann Fischer . In: Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Brain feeling.! : Art from Gugging from 1970 to the present . 1st edition. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 .
  2. ^ Roman Gerold: Visiting the artists in Gugging. In: The Standard. August 2, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggendorf am Wagram , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2008