Josef Bauer (artist)

Josef Bauer (2019)

Josef Bauer (born January 12, 1934 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian artist.

Life and work

After studying painting at the art school in Linz , Bauer mainly made plastic works. In 1994 he was awarded the Culture Prize of the City of Linz, and a year later he received the Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria for fine arts. In 2017 he was awarded the Alfred Kubin Prize .

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

• 2016: Unttld contemporary gallery, "Zwischenzimmer", Vienna
• 2014: Unttld contemporary gallery, "Josef Bauer - selected works", Vienna
• 2013: Grazer Kunstverein, Palais Trauttmansdorff, "Josef Bauer - Works 1965 to Today", Graz
• 2013: Museum Angerlehner, "Josef Bauer", Thalheim near Wels
• 2013: Gallery in the forge "I'm not like that every day", Pasching near Linz
• 2012: Room of Silence in the Catholic University Community, “Thomas was here”, Linz
• 2012: Space for Art (SIX), “Brush Strokes”, Seewalchen a. A.
• 2012: icon.Galerie, “What remains is poetry”, Linz
• 2010: Galerie Wünsch, “expo in progress”, Linz
• 2010: Galerie Bruckmühle, "Josef Bauer", Pregarten
• 2010: Parish church Pichl, “Rule and serve”, Pichl near Wels
• 2009: Galerie Wünsch, “literally palpable”, Linz
• 2008: Gallery in the Europahaus, “Tactile Poetry”, Pilsen
• 2006: ORF Upper Austria, Meeting Point Art, Linz
• 2006: Galerie Schmidtgasse 1, “I run up and hold on”, Wels
• 2005: Galerie Eder , "The 70s", Linz
• 2002: Gallery Atrium, "Pictures, Objects, Installations", Kremsmünster
• 1998: Galerie MAERZ, "Additions", Linz
• 1994: Bielefelder Kunstverein
• 1992: Upper Austria. Landesgalerie, Linz
• 1990: Studio allerArt, Dorn
• 1986: Galerie Flutlicht, Vienna
• 1985: Bielefeld City Gallery
• 1979: Art Museum Hannover
• 1978: Gallery next St. Stephan, Vienna, Festetics Gallery, Salzburg
• 1974: New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
• 1970: Gallery in the Greek Beisl, Vienna
• 1968: Parz Castle near Grieskirchen, gallery in the Greek Beisl, Vienna

Group exhibitions (excerpt)

• 2016: Simone Subal Gallery, "Josef Bauer, Kristen Jensen, Philip Wiehagen", New York
• 2016: Gallery Krobath, "Fritz Panzer, Josef Bauer", Vienna
• 2016: viennacontemporary, art fair, Vienna
• 2016: 21er Haus, "The Language of Things", Vienna
• 2016: Neue Galerie Graz, "Image, Reality and Research from 1960 to 1980", Graz
• 2015: Galerie unttld contemporary, art fair, "ARTISSIMA Turin", Turin
• 2015: Kunsthalle Krems, "NOW, AT THE LATEST", Krems
• 2015: Galerie unttld contemporary, art fair, "viennacontemporary", Vienna
• 2015: Galerie unttld contemporary, "Herrschen und Dienen", Vienna
• 2015: Galerie Charim, "curated by", Vienna
• 2015: Gallery Lisa Cooley, "I Dropped The Lemon Tart", New York
• 2015: Neue Galerie Graz, "Landscape: Transformation of an Idea", Graz
• 2015: Kunsthalle Wien, "Destination Wien 2015", Vienna
• 2015: Kunsthalle Mainz, "Views of Mainz", Mainz
• 2014: Jacobihaus, "Turn Back - Turn Left - Go Straight - Cut Across", Düsseldorf
• 2014: Werkstadt Graz, "Landscape", Graz
• 2014: Alternating Current Gallery, "Rooms for Notes", Vienna
• 2013: 21er Haus, "The Collection # 3", Vienna
• 2013: gesso, "Finisce e Continua uno", Vienna
• 2013: Galerie MAERZ, "Wegmarken", Linz
• 2013: Lentos Art Museum, "10 Years Lentos" (collection exhibition), Linz
• 2013: Gesso, “Finisce e Continua uno”, Vienna
• 2013: Galerie MAERZ, “Wegmarken”, Linz
• 2012: Galerie MAERZ and StifterHaus, “For mobility / crossings, paraphrases”, Linz
• 2012: 21er Haus, “Utopia GESAMTKUNSTWERK”, Vienna
• 2011: temporarycollection, Berlin
• 2011: Upper Austria. State Museum, “The 20th Century in Upper Austria.” Culture and Art History, Linz
• 2011: icon.Galerie, Art Positions 2009–2011, Linz
• 2011: Museum on Demand (MUSA), “The 1960s. Fantastic Modernism ”, Vienna
• 2011: National Portrait Gallery, “Dirty Literature”, London
• 2011: Galerie in der Schmiede, "ON - positions of the quiet", Pasching near Linz
• 2010: Galerie MAERZ, “Things we never did”, Linz
• 2010: Museum on Demand (MUSA), “Raum Körper Einsatz” Vienna
• 2010: House of Art, “Long time not seen”, Brno
• 2009: Upper Austria. Landesgalerie (Galerie Eder), KUNST.MESSE.LINZ
• 2009: Galerie MAERZ, StifterHaus, LENTOS, "formulated", Linz
• 2009: LENTOS, “Intersection Linz. Young art and masterpieces ”, Linz
• 2009: Galerie Dana Charkasi, “THE RED THREAD”, Vienna
• 2008: Gallery of the City of Wels, “Local Heroes”, Wels
• 2008: Galerie Forum, “Measuring the World”, Wels
• 2008: NORDICO, “Door to Door”, Linz
• 2008: Gallery of the City of Wels, “The Treasure Island”, Wels
• 2007: Galerie Eder, “OÖ. Classics ”, Linz
• 2007: Pilsen City Gallery, “Elsewhere II”, Pilsen
• 2007: Symposium Schärding, "Painting - far from the subject", Schärding
• 2007: Museum on Demand (MUSA), “Long time not seen”, Vienna
• 2007: Palais Epstein, “PreisWert”, Vienna
• 2006: LENTOS, “A common place - sculptures, sculptures, objects”, Linz
• 2006: Galerie am Lieglweg, "EINTEXTISTEINBILD", Neulengbach
• 2005: Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, “Bleischrift”, Bregenz
• 2005: Artmark Gallery, “Setting Signs”, Spital am Pyhrn

bibliography

• Works 1965 - today (Berlin: Sternberg Press / Graz: Grazer Kunstverein, 2014)
• Color names With a foreword by Burghard Schmidt. (Linz: self-published, 2004)
• Pictures, objects, installations, 1985–1998. (Linz 1998)
• Exhibition catalog . (Linz: Landesgalerie, 1992)
• Line by line / line by line. Monograph . (linz: edition new texts, 1977)
• Tactile poetry 1965 to 1974. Exhibition catalog . (Graz: New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Johanneum Graz, 1974)
• Constellations. Exhibition catalog . (Vienna: Galerie im Greeksbeisl, 1968)

Web links

Commons : Josef Bauer  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Josef Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of the artist
• Article about Josef Bauer on Profil.at, December 11, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ Upper Austrian news: Josef Bauer awarded the "Alfred Kubin Prize" . Article dated September 11, 2017, accessed September 12, 2017.