Johannes Schreiber (painter)

Johannes Schreiber (born November 18, 1921 in Kronstadt ) is a Romanian - Austrian painter , graphic artist , commercial artist and art teacher .

Live and act

Schreiber completed an apprenticeship in stage design and performing arts at the State Theater in Sibiu . He studied drawing and painting at the Technical University of Brno and in Budapest , in the painting school of Arnold Clementschitsch in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and at the Linz art school with Karl Hauk . His works are influenced by the work of Wolfgang von Wersin .

He worked as a freelancer and made his knowledge and skills available to the Linz Art Academy , the Economic Development Institute in Linz, the Upper Austria Chamber of Commerce , the Linz City Cultural Office , the Upper Austrian State Museums , various HTLs and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg .

With the design of the chancel of the Gratitude Church in Braunau am Inn and with various representative exhibitions, he gained national fame.

Schreiber's artistic work focuses on the transcendent in the picture. To this end, Schreiber developed his painterly and graphic work independently of the artistic trends of the time over the course of four post-war decades. Schreiber's pictures are based on expressionist formal language and he develops his representations in a “lyrical color scheme” so that the emotion of direct expression can be combined with a pronounced painterly depth effect.

From 1953 to 1975 he was a member of the Association of Austrian Commercial Graphics and the artists' association MAERZ . Schreiber's works can be found in the art collection of the Province of Upper Austria and in the holdings of the City of Linz.

Works (selection)

• Passion pictures in the chancel of the Gratitude Church in Braunau am Inn
• Gailtal , oil painting
• Danube breakthrough , oil painting
• The dream
• Ahornsee
• The Last Supper , oil on wood, 1963
• A nightmare , 1972
• The Kiss , oil on canvas, 1993

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• Johannes Schreiber , Schlossmuseum Linz , 1973 (with Otto Wutzel's catalog )
• Johannes Schreiber - retrospective of the painterly work , Schlossmuseum Linz, 1994 (with catalog by Peter Assmann )

Group exhibitions

• Relationship fields, 150 years of the Upper Austrian Art Association, 1851 to 2001 , Linz State Gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum , 2001

Awards

• National prices for posters
• Austrian State Prize (1956)

Publications

• Otto Wutzel (editor), Johannes Schreiber (design): 110 years of the Upper Austrian Art Association. Contributions including: From the eightieth to the hundredth year. A chronicle of the Upper Austrian Art Association from 1931–1961. by Arthur Fischer-Colbrie, Upper Austrian Art Association (Ed.), Linz 1961.
• Catalog for the exhibition Young Artists in Upper Austria. Linz, 1954. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
• With Peter K. Unterrainer , Herwig Karzel , Michael Meyer , Peter Kraft : The Church of Gratitude in a New Light. Catalog about the Braunau Passion Pictures by Johannes Schreiber, Braunau, no year, 24 pages.

literature

• Austrian posters: 1890 to 1957. Vienna / Munich, 1957, p. 51.
• Johannes Schreiber: Johannes Schreiber, painting, graphics. Linz 1986.
• Hans Bergel : Johannes Schreiber, Aquarelle: About the art of painting with water colors. Linz 1982.

media

Schreiber's artistic work has been mentioned and commented on several times in newspapers and magazines:

• Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz , issues 605 to 621, Ostdeutscher Kulturrat, 1986 (Ed.): “... Johannes Schreiber, who is one generation younger (note: compared to Grete Csaki-Copony , * 1893), also supports the powerful picturesque painter and allows comparison to his compatriot Hans Eder (1883 to 1953), not only because of the biblical subject. "
• Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter , Volume 24, Issues 2 to 4, Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1975 (Ed.): “Outstanding personalities and despite the expressive language of contrasting palettes and forms were Grete Csaki-Copony and Johannes Schreiber; Both born in Kronstadt, they see the landscape with different eyes, there colorful, yes happy and colorful, here gloomy, heavy. These two interpreters of nature, separated by half a century in their old age, mark out the wide arc on which the landscape painters of the southeast move. "

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography of Johannes Schreiber , in: Webpräsenz des OÖ. Kunstverein ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 25, 2015.  
2. ^ Johannes Schreiber, on the occasion of the tribute to the expellees on October 26, 2005 in the Linz Landhaus , in: Oberösterreichische Landeskorrespondenz , No. 49 of October 26, 2009, accessed on November 24, 2015.
3. ^ Peter Assmann: Johannes Schreiber in: Museumsjournal , supplement to the Upper Austria. Culture Report, Volume 1, January 1994, Linz, 1994, S 2 and Volume 2, February 1994, Linz, S 2, accessed on November 27, 2015.
4. ↑ Johannes Schreiber , in: Web presence of Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur , accessed on November 22, 2015.