Jos Pirkner
Jos Pirkner (born December 2, 1927 in Sillian / East Tyrol ) is an Austrian sculptor .
Life
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Jos Pirkner received his training as a sculptor in Graz and Salzburg and attended the arts and crafts school in Klagenfurt , Carinthia. He graduated from the master school for applied arts in Graz with distinction. Then he went to the Free Academy in Utrecht in Holland to work with the Atelier Brom, a well-known workshop for gold and silver sculpture. With his sculptures in silver, bronze or glass, Pirkner quickly enjoyed success in Europe and the USA. He lived in the Netherlands for over 25 years, where he opened his own studio. In 1978 he returned to East Tyrol, where he has lived and worked in Tristach near Lienz ever since .
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Pirkner's work mostly deals with human figures. He designed figures for a fountain in Wattens , a fountain on Sparkassenplatz in Innsbruck or the grave for Julien Green , who had asked Pirkner to design his grave. The artist also worked on sculptures of horses and bulls. In Munster, for example, he created the Lower Saxony Fountain, which was unveiled on October 20, 1991 and with eight horses, which symbolize the eight former independent communities of Munster, is considered the largest work of art in the city to date. In 2014, Pirkner completed the “Bulls of Fuschl” at the Red Bull headquarters in Fuschl am See ( Land Salzburg ). With a length of more than 22 meters, this herd of 14 larger than life bulls is considered the largest bronze sculpture in Europe.
Awards
- 1995: Awarded the professional title of Professor hc
- 2001: Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol
- 2002: Ring of honor of the Tristach community
- 2015 Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2018: Knight of the New Year's Eve
Exhibitions (selection)
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Publications
- with Gert Ammann u. a .: Jos Pirkner. People, myths, monuments. Works from five decades. Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7022-2120-4 .
- with Gert Ammann u. a .: Jos Pirkner. Material, shape and space. Festival exhibition 2010 in Salzburg in Hangar-7 , Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89910-472-1 .
- Jos Pirkner: The Fuschl cops. Pantauro-Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7105-0000-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jos Pirkner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal award for eleven Tyroleans on ORF-Tirol from April 29, 2015, accessed on April 29, 2015
- ^ High papal order for Jos Pirkner on ORF of January 23, 2018, accessed on January 23, 2018.
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| SURNAME | Pirkner, Jos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sillian , East Tyrol |