Johann Garber

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Johann Garber (born August 12, 1947 in Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian visual artist of Art brut .

Biography and artistic career

Johann Garber grew up with his grandmother and in youth homes. After finishing school, Garber worked in various craft areas and performed nine months of military service. In 1966 Garber's first stay at the then Lower Austrian State Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology Klosterneuburg . Garber's first drawings are documented from 1977. In 1979 he created the first works with pen and ink . In 1981 Garber was one of the group of patients who moved to what was then the Center for Art and Psychotherapy in Gugging as part of the initiative of the psychiatrist Leo Navratil . In 1982 Garber had his first solo exhibition in the Heike Curtze Gallery in Vienna. The artist currently belongs to the group of residents of the Art / Brut Center Gugging in Maria Gugging . Garber's works are part of international collections and exhibitions. One example is the Milwaukee Art Museum .

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Johann Garber works with a wide variety of artistic media and techniques. He dedicates himself to drawing , painting , photography , the design of objects and the artistic transformation of his environment. Representations of paradisiacal worlds can be found in Garber's sometimes large-format and densely designed ink drawings . The focus of his drawings is nature , which spreads over his leaves in depictions of people, celestial bodies, flora and fauna. In contrast to the black and white of his ink drawings, Garber creates objects with vivid colors that he either collects and reworks or creates himself. The interaction of these opposing creative areas of the artist can be experienced in cross-media room installations .

Solo exhibitions

  • 2017: johann garber.! hobbyist and master painter, museum gugging , Maria Gugging.
  • 1998: Galerie Altnöder, Salzburg.
  • 1982: Johann Garber, Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna.

Group exhibitions (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Johann Feilacher, Strebl Michaela: Johann Garber. In: Raw Vision. The world's leading journal of outsider art, art brut, contemporary folk art , No. 5, London / New York 1991, pp. 34–37.
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Guggging. The artists from Gugging, Maria Gugging 1993.
  • Leo Navratil: Art Brut and Psychiatry (Bd. 1) / The artists and their works. Gugging 1946–1986 (vol. 2), compendium, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3854478768 .
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Sovären. The House of Artists in Gugging, Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-89904-127-5 .
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Blug. gugging - a place of art, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3902510914 .
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Small formats.! Drawings by the artists from Gugging, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3701733248 .
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Gugging meisterwerke.!, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 9783701733347 .
  • Dankmar Trier: Garber, Johann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 48, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22788-4 , p. 514.
  • Johann Feilacher (Ed.), Maria Höger, Nina Ansperger: Johann Garber !: Handyman and master painter. Museum Gugging, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7017-3438-2
  • Nina Katschnig: Curated by Johann Garber . Catalog for the exhibition curated by johann garber, May 18 - September 20, 2017, Galerie Gugging [2017]
  • Brigitte Reutner: Art brut from Gugging. The Leo Navratil Collection and subsequent acquisitions, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3903131842 .
  • Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Brain feeling.! art from gugging from 1970 to the present, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3701734504 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Maria Höger: Johann Garber . In: Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Brain feeling.! Art from Gugging from 1970 to the present . 1st edition. Residence, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 .
  2. ↑ a b Maria Höger: Attention, Johann Garber is painting and doing handicrafts! In: Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (ed.): Johann garber.! hobbyist and master painter . 1st edition. Residence, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7017-3438-2 .
  3. ↑ Via Johann Garber , Milwaukee Art Museum , last accessed March 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Nina Schedlmayer Gugging: The famous Art Brut artists Garber and Vondal. In: profil.at. September 5, 2017, accessed on March 19, 2019 (German).
  5. ^ Roman Gerold: A visit to the artists from Gugging. In: The Standard. August 2, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ CAROM.! Art from Gugging in the Essl Collection. In: Website of the Essl Collection. Retrieved on March 19, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Garber, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria