Josef Taucher (painter)

Josef Taucher (born August 4, 1948 in Weiz , Styria ) is an Austrian painter , sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

Josef Taucher learned the trade of machine fitter and electric welder in his hometown of Weiz. His apprenticeship also included technical drawing, which was to be of use to him throughout his later career. 1970 to 1974 he attended the HTBLA Ortweinschule Graz, department of painting and graphics . Since 1974 Josef Taucher has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Graz as well as in various places in Styria.

With the mineralogist and crystallographer Christine Elisabeth Hollerer he is linked by artistic collaborations and co-authorship in his mineralogical publication activities.

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Josef Taucher is best known for his views of spectacular mountain formations. In his younger years he was a passionate extreme climber and has been investigating the relationship between nature and art since the 1970s, using a wide variety of art genres and methods, especially in his early days. In the 1980s, alongside Siegfried Anzinger , Hans Kupelwieser , Manfred Wakolbinger , Lois Weinberger and Erwin Wurm, he was one of the most important representatives of new sculpture in Austria. Less known than his painting is his autonomous graphic work.

Josef Taucher has also been working as a mineralogist since the 1980s . He discovered four new minerals such as Weinebeneit and Pretulite , and he played a key role in determining their structure . Furthermore, he published a large number of mineralogical specialist literature over several decades.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1980: International Painting Weeks (works of the 15th International Painting Weeks), Neue Galerie Graz
• 1981: Josef Taucher Pictures 81 , Joanneum , Ecksaal, Graz
• 1984: New ways of plastic design in Austria , Künstlerhaus, Neue Galerie Graz
• 1985: Los Angeles Summer - styrian autumn 1985 , Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2016: Josef Taucher , Stadtgalerie - Kunsthaus Weiz

Public collections (selection)

• Art library of the federal government
• New Gallery Graz

Web links

• Josef Taucher homepage accessed on March 13, 2019.
• kunstnet.at accessed on March 13, 2019.
• Digital business card on the culture server accessed on March 13, 2019.
• Josef Taucher in the database of basis wien accessed on March 13, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Titz: From the structure of the world. In: Kleine Zeitung, Zeit &zeichen, Graz, July 20, 1997, 7 illustrations, pp. 8-9. , accessed on March 13, 2019.
2. ^ New ways of sculptural design in austria - Werner Fenz , accessed on March 6, 2019.
3. ↑ Works of the XV. International Painting Weeks - Wilfried Skreiner , accessed March 6, 2019.
4. ^ Franz Bernhard, Franz Walter, Karl Ettinger, Josef Taucher, Kurt Mereiter: Pretulite, ScPO ₄ , a new scandium mineral from the Styrian and Lower Austrian lazulite occurrences, Austria . In: American Mineralogist . tape 83 , 1998, pp. 625–630 (English, available online at minsocam.org [PDF; 220 kB ; accessed on March 6, 2019]).

Literature (selection)

• Martin Behr: The art in stone. Weinebeneit and pretulit . In: UNIZEIT. Research magazine of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 5/97, Graz 1997, 24–25.
• Günter Eisenhut, Götz Pochat: Masterpieces of Styrian Modernism. Styria Pichler, 2003, ISBN 3-222-13116-3 .
• Werner Fenz : The mountain is calling! On the pictorial grammar of Josef Diver's nature . In: Markus Jaroschka / Helwig Brunner: clearings. Journal for literature, art and contemporary criticism, No. 101. Volume XXVI. Owner and publisher: Lichtungen literature group within the framework of the Austrian Urania for Styria. Graz 2005, 75, 90.
• Erika Oehring: ALPS - place of longing and stage. Old and new images of the Alps : Josef Taucher. Twilight 3 . In: Exhibition catalog " Alpen. Sehnsuchtsort und Bühne ", Residenzgalerie Salzburg 2011, 284–285, 346.
• Claudia Rief: Josef Taucher - Art as a crazy turmoil in tiny dimensions . In: VIA Airportjournal, 4/2018, Graz 2018, 60–62.
• Wilfried Skreiner : New Art from Austria. New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz 1985, 137 pp.

Publications (selection)

• Josef Taucher, Christine Elisabeth Hollerer: The minerals of the federal state of Styria in Austria. 2 vol., CD-ROM, Graz 2001, 955 a. 1124 pp., ISBN 3-9501422-0-7 .