Josef Linschinger

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Josef Linschinger (* 1945 in Gmunden , Austria ) is an Austrian artist whose works can be assigned to constructive / concrete art and visual / conceptual poetry .

life and work

Josef Linschinger studied agriculture and craftsmanship at the University of Design in Linz . From 1976 to 1980 he was a student at the Free International University for Color and Environment Salzburg . From 1975 to 2003 he worked as a lecturer and professor at the Art University Linz . In 2013 Linschinger headed the XVIII. International Summer Academy Plauen .

Linschinger dealt with constructive art even before his studies. The contact with Heinrich Frieling at the Free International University for Color and Environment and the colleagues with Max Lüscher at the Art University Linz encouraged the discussion of the subject of color. From 1977 concrete reliefs made of wood and lacquer and from 1987 canvas paintings mainly in red and blue as well as in yellow and black were created. From 1987 he also worked in the field of visual / conceptual poetry. In 1993 he was able to realize his first large-scale sculpture and in 2008 the first text films were made.

In 1981 Josef Linschinger started exhibiting. From 1986 he took part in the group "vertical-diagonal-horizontal", which exhibited in several European countries with the involvement of local artists and which he supported until 2000. In 1989 Linschinger organized the exhibition series “Constructive currents”, which included nine exhibitions in six cities in Upper Austria and in Passau . It became the pilot project of the Gmundner Symposia for Concrete Art, which he founded in 1990 and which he held annually until 2009. Works by 600 international artists could be shown and published in this context. He emerged as a prize winner from art competitions. u. a. Austrian graphic competition 1988, 1993, 1996. Some of his designs were realized for public spaces. Linschinger is a member of the MAERZ artists' association . From 1985 to 2009 he was President of the Salzkammergut Artists' Guild founded in 1928 (now Kunstforum Salzkammergut). He lives and works in Linz and Traunkirchen .

honors and awards

Solo exhibitions (selection from 2000)

  • 2000 Vienna, A, Lindner Gallery
  • 2000 Bratislava, SL, Gallery Z
  • 2001 Lodz, PL, Gallery 261 of the Academy Pieknych
  • 2001 Radom, PL, Radom University of Technology, Rogata Gallery
  • 2001 Linz, A, Art University Linz
  • 2001 Ilmenau, D, Small Gallery of the City of Ilmenau
  • 2001 Gmunden, A, VKB-Galerie and Galerie 422
  • 2001 Tokyo, JAP, Austrian Embassy Gallery
  • 2002 Gießen, D, Dietgard Wosimsky Gallery
  • 2002 Graz, A, Museum of Perception
  • 2003 Rehau, D, Institute for Constructive Art and Concrete Poetry
  • 2004 St. Pölten, A, Lower Austria cultural center
  • 2004 Linz, A, Gallery Spectrum
  • 2004 Tokyo, JAP, Gallery Oculus, with Takako Hasekura
  • 2004 Sulzburg, D, Galerie Konkret, with Hellmut Bruch
  • 2005 Klagenfurt, A, Ritter Gallery
  • 2005 Bad Ischl, A, Rytmogram Gallery
  • 2006 Saarbrücken, D, Galerie St. Johann
  • 2006 Rehau, D, Institute for Constructive Art and Concrete Poetry
  • 2006 Plauen, D, Academy Gallery
  • 2008 Schärding, A, Schärding Castle Gallery
  • 2008 Linz, A, Landesgalerie Linz
  • 2009 Rehau, D, Institute for Constructive Art and Concrete Poetry
  • 2009 Linz, A, Galerie Wünsch
  • 2011 Klagenfurt, A, Ritter Gallery
  • 2011 Plauen, D, Academy Gallery
  • 2013 Novi Sad, SRB, City Museum, with Ljubomir Vučinić
  • 2013 Vienna, A, Galerie Lindner
  • 2013 Osnabrück, D, Vordemberge-Gildewart-Haus and in the city library with Eugen Gomringer
  • 2014 Bad Ischl, A, Rytmogram Gallery
  • 2014 Puchheim, A, Puchheim Castle Gallery
  • 2015 Gießen, D, Mathematikum - Museum of Mathematics you can touch
  • 2015 Bratislava, SK, Austria Cultural Forum
  • 2015 Linz, A, the art collection of the state of Upper Austria
  • 2016 Potsdam, D, Galerie Ruhnke, with Reinhard Haverkamp
  • 2016 Sulzburg, D, Galerie Konkret, with Eugen Gomringer

Working in public collections

  • Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt, D
  • Forum Concrete Art Erfurt, D
  • Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg - Peter Ruppert Collection, Würzburg, D
  • Mathematikum - Museum for hands-on mathematics, Gießen, D
  • Museum Modern Art Hünfeld - Jürgen Blum Collection, D
  • Mondriaanhuis Museum, Amersfoort, NL
  • Museum of Contemporary Poetry, Tanka and Haiku, Kitakami, Japan
  • Liesborn Abbey Museum, Cross Collection, D
  • Museo Casabianca, Malo / Vicenza, I
  • Mercedes Automuseum, Untertürkheim, D
  • Hokkaido Museum of Literature, Sapporo, Japan
  • Milan Dobes Museum, Bratislava, SK
  • Museum for Geometry MADI Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Nickle Arts Museum-University of Calgary, "The foundation for constructive art", Calgary, CAN
  • Institute for Constructive Art and Concrete Poetry - Gomringer Collection, Rehau, D
  • Messmer Art Gallery, Riegl am Kaiserstuhl, D
  • Artothek Nuremberg, D
  • Arte Struktura, Milano, I
  • Mazovian Center of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”, Radom, PL
  • Collection of Energie AG, Linz, A
  • Collection of the Sparkasse Erfurt, D
  • Graphic Collection Albertina, Vienna, A
  • Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, A
  • Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts, Vienna, A
  • Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, A
  • Upper Austria. State Museum Linz, A
  • Art Collection of the State of Upper Austria, Linz, A
  • Collection of the City of Linz, A
  • Collection of the city of Gmunden, A

as well as in private collections

Catalogs and books by Josef Linschinger

Josef Linschinger is the editor of the documentation for the Gmundner Symposia for Concrete Art 1989–2009 at Ritter Verlag.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Linschinger, CV requested on March 28, 2015
  2. ↑ orf.at - regional prizes for artists and scientists . Retrieved August 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Linschinger, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmunden , Austria