Johannes Krejci

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Johannes Krejci (* 1912 in Enns ; † 1997 in Linz ) was an Austrian painter .

Live and act

His extensive travels took him to Italy , Germany , Holland , Denmark and Sweden . He acquired his artistic training before the Second World War a. a. at the Berlin Academy with Ludwig Bartning , at the Munich Academy with Hermann Kaspar and completed them as a guest student from 1953 at the Vienna Academy with Sergius Pauser and especially Herbert Boeckl (evening act).

After six years of military service , Krejci lived from 1946 as a freelance painter near Steyregg in the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria . He was a member of the Linz artists' association MAERZ and from 1951 the Vienna Secession and the Hundsgruppe . He lived and worked for some time in the Egon Hofmann House .

Exhibitions

Works

Influenced by the direct confrontation with German Expressionism ( Käthe Kollwitz ), with the academic late impressionism but also with Herbert Boeckl's formal language based on Paul Cézanne , he developed his distinctive individual style towards the end of the 1950s. The colored, curved or stretched swinging lines were formally the dominant element of his works. Characteristic for his picture compositions were often designs of an overall form on several canvases placed next to one another. The central theme of the artist's artistic exploration was the landscape, with the provincial capital Linz as a focus of his city portraits. Personal portraits aimed at the broadest possible understanding of the respective existence of life.

  • Aquatic animals, colorful mosaic with animals by the water - fish, frog, snail and dragonfly, wall of the cabin wing in the Karlhof children's outdoor pool, Karlhofsiedlung, Gründberg - Harbach - Heilham, Weilgunystraße 18, Kunst am Bau, Linz (1960)
  • 5 ceramic mosaics on the front doors on the theme of the redesign of the Südtiroler Platz in Gussriegelstrasse 51 to 59, Vienna
  • Two people, oil on canvas, (around 1950)

literature

  • Peter Kraft : Mourning for Johannes Krejci, Upper Austria Culture, Report, OÖ monthly. Landeskulturreferates, vol. 51, Linz 1997, volume 4.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michaela Pappernigg (arrangement): Art of the 20th century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 20th Century. Volume 2: GK. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Ed.), Vienna 1995, p. 270.
  2. ^ Peter Assmann: Johannes Krejci. Exhibition from February 27 to March 29, 1992. In: OÖ. Museum journal - supplement to Upper Austria. Culture report. Linz 1992, PDF (5.3 MB) on ZOBODAT
  3. ↑ Peter Kraft. In: website of Regiowiki.at
personal data
SURNAME Krejci, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Enns
DATE OF DEATH 1997
Place of death Linz