Karl Anton Fleck

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Karl Anton Fleck (born June 9, 1928 in Vienna ; † December 5, 1983 there ) was an Austrian painter , his artistic focus was drawing, for which he mainly used graphite . But he also created watercolors and oil paintings . He also wrote poems in dialect .

Life

Karl Anton Fleck already developed drawing talent in his youth, but initially completed an apprenticeship as a gravure retoucher and worked in this profession. In 1948 he studied percussion at the Institute for Jazz Music .

Fleck married Dina Pilek in 1951; from the marriage came a son (* 1952). From 1953 to 1958 he lived with his family in Sweden's Helsingborg . When their son Wolfgang started school, the family returned to Vienna.

He had great success with his landscape watercolors, but he also experimented with informal and tachistic styles. In 1955 he showed his pictures for the first time at the Helsingborg Art Museum, and further exhibitions followed. On the occasion of an exhibition in the Viennese gallery "Zum Roten Apfel" with abstract works in 1961, he met Richard Pechoc and Walter Malli and together with them founded the Ahmad Pechoc Trio , which gave a free jazz concert in the Graz Forum Stadtpark in 1961 .

In 1968 he was invited to a comprehensive retrospective at the Helsingborg Museum. He began to devote himself intensively to portraying . His portraits were exhibited in the Vienna Secession in 1971 . This was followed by an invitation to the studio house in Neumarkt an der Raab in Burgenland.

The artists' association Der Kreis invited him to their exhibition in 1972 as a guest. He became a member of this association in 1973 and vice-president in 1978. In 1979 he was awarded the title of professor.

In 1975 he married the young artist Gisela Beinrücker, to whom he had given painting and drawing lessons, but this marriage also fell apart.

Until his early retirement in 1980, Fleck worked as a photo retoucher. After the dissolution of the artists' association Der Kreis , he became a member of the Vienna Secession in 1982.

In November 1982 the lithography portfolio Selbstbefleckungen was created in Salzburg under the patronage of Otto Breicha . Fleck showed two further cycles, collages under the title deliberate underlays , in the Yppen gallery. The death of the clown Charlie Rivel , whom he admired in the circus as a child, inspired him to write the Charlie Rivel series , a tribute to the clown.

In 1983 Karl Anton Fleck died in his studio at the age of 55. He was buried in an honorary grave of the municipality of Vienna at the central cemetery.

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Fleck signed his works with the abbreviation “KAF” and found his own style with gaps and reduction to the essentials as well as distortions and accumulations of details and symbols from abstraction . This conglomerate was held together by a clear, distinctive outline for the exact definition of the contours. Dynamic bundles of lines were contrasted with this static element. They set the accents and focal points, which gives the drawings their own tension. He often used wax crayons to enhance this effect. With a cloth he smeared graphite on the white drawing sheet in order to get a softer surface through this gray tint. With the help of an eraser he achieved a depth effect, a kind of elevation.

In addition to portraits, cityscapes and landscapes, he repeatedly drew nudes, dealt with the increased consumer behavior in the western world, addressed questions about environmental policy, identity and his own identity and created a. a. Drawings in which the boundaries between humans and animal beings are blurred. In his “self-defilement” he alienated his facial features, mixed them with animals or hid himself behind historical masks and costumes. His excessive alcohol consumption led to several stays in mental hospitals. There he created drawings of fellow patients, oppressive self-portraits behind bars and poems.

Fleck was enthusiastic about the poems of HC Artmann , Friedrich Achleitner and Gerhard Rühm , started a cycle “Speisebilder”, accompanied by surreal short texts, which were published in 2005 with his poems in a book. A selection of these works was presented by the Chobot Gallery at the 1977 Vienna Art Fair in the Palais Liechtenstein . On the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1978, the Vienna Museum of the 20th Century honored him with a solo exhibition.

In 1987 Dagmar Chobot acquired the rights of use from Karl Anton Fleck. In 2005 the Vienna Leopold Museum presented a comprehensive retrospective.

Locations of the plants

An extensive inventory of Fleck's works was donated by Dagmar and Manfred Chobot to the Albertina in 2019 , as were documents on the artist's life and work.

Fleck's oeuvre is estimated at around 3,000 works. His works are in private collections as well as in museums and art institutions, for example in the Leopold Museum , in the Rupertinum , in the Albertina Vienna , Bauholding STRABAG8, in the Museum of Modern Art (Mumok Vienna) , in the Artothek des Bundes, in the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna, in the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum , in the Essl Collection , in the Museum Liaunig , in the Peter Infeld Private Foundation in Vienna, in the Art Museum Helsingborg and in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City .

Awards (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1961: "Zum Roten Apfel" gallery, Vienna
  • 1967: From the invisible . Umetnička Galerija, Sombor (Yugoslavia)
  • 1968: Vikingsbergs konstmuseum , Helsingborg (catalog)
  • 1969: Signs of life 69 . Small gallery, Vienna (catalog)
  • 1971: portraits . Vienna Secession , Vienna (fold-out catalog)
  • 1972: pigeons-dogs-cars-people-pictures . Galerie Blutgasse, Vienna
  • 1972: 20 acts . Tigges Gallery, Gütersloh
  • 1973: Landscapes and self-defilements . Gallery on the Stubenbastei, Vienna (folding catalog)
  • 1976: Small gallery on the main square, Baden near Vienna
  • 1976: Nagl basement gallery, Vöcklabruck
  • 1977: Stavanger Art Museum, Norway
  • 1978: Gallery in Goldgasse, Salzburg
  • 1978: Galerie Arcade, Mödling
  • 1978: portrait drawings . Museum of the 20th Century , Vienna (catalog)
  • 1978: Graz Culture House, on the occasion of the Styrian autumn
  • 1979: drawings . Gallery in Hofstöckl, Linz
  • 1979: nude drawings . Gerersdorfer Gallery, Vienna
  • 1980: patient portraits . Nagl basement gallery, Vöcklabruck
  • 1981: Austrian landscape watercolors . Kulturhaus Graz
  • 1986: Galerie Freund, Klagenfurt (poster)
  • 1988: Self-Portraits - Self-Defilements . Galerie Chobot, Vienna (catalog)
  • 1989: Painting , Lower Austrian State Museum (catalog)
  • 1993: Rupertinum , Salzburg (catalog)
  • 1994: Karl Anton Fleck: “Pictures from the property of the Salzburg State Collections Rupertinum”, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
  • 1999: Karl Anton Fleck - "Vincent van Fleck" , Chobot Gallery, Vienna
  • 2005: Karl Anton Fleck. Anthropological machine . Leopold Museum , Vienna
  • 2006: Film montages 1965–1969 , Galerie Chobot, Vienna
  • 2006: Karl Anton Fleck. "Headache" . Roiten village museum , Gars am Kamp castle ruins , Krems wine city museum , Weinviertel concert hall
  • 2013: Karl Anton Fleck. Drawings, oil paintings, photo montages . Infeld House of Culture, Halbturn, Burgenland

Literature (selection)

  • Gottfried Layr, Kurt Panzenberger (Hrsg.): Austrian watercolorists of the present . Verlag Wilhelm Maudrich, Vienna – Munich – Bern 1984
  • Manfred Chobot : KAF - in search of his identity , in: “Old and modern art”, issue 133, 19th year, Vienna 1974
  • Artist group “Der Kreis” (Ed.): 30 years of artist group Der Kreis 1946–1976. Vienna 1976
  • Renata Mikula, Hans Brisanz: The circle. Documentation of a Viennese artists' association 1946–1980 . Exhibition catalog, Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1981
  • Manfred Chobot: For example Karl Anton Fleck, Ernst Zdrahal, Franz Schwarzinger. Three Viennese artists . In: Tendenzen , magazine for committed art, issue No. 147, 25th year, Munich 1984
  • Manfred Chobot: “Always to Duarschd”. The graphic artist Karl Anton Fleck died ten years ago in Vienna . In: "Morgen", culture magazine from Lower Austria. 17th volume, number 92, December 1993
  • Self and Others - The Portrait in Art after 1960 . Edition Rupertinum, Salzburg 2003
  • Manfred Chobot (Ed.): Karl Anton Fleck: “God hides behind every face.” Poems and film montages . Brunn am Gebirge: art & print and Vienna: Galerie Chobot, 2005
  • Andreas Felber : The Viennese free jazz avant-garde. Revolution in the back room . Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2005
  • Infeld Collection , Volume 4, Austrian Art, Vienna 2005
  • Contemporary art, Edition Liaunig 2, collection catalog . Ed .: HL Museumsverwaltung GmbH. On the occasion of the opening of the Museum Liaunig Neuhaus / Suha, August 2008
  • "The Excitement Continues." Contemporary art from the Leopold II collection . Ed .: Franz Smola, Diethard Leopold, Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2011
  • The artist village of Neumarkt an der Raab . Ed .: Petra Schmögner, Peter Vukics. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten and Salzburg 2011
  • Art Austria 2011 in the Leopold Museum
  • Karla Starecek: Karl Anton Fleck (1928–1983) - A still white spot in Austrian art history . In: Parnass , issue 4/2013
  • Line & shape. 100 master drawings from the Leopold Collection . Ed .: Franz Smola, Fritz Koreny. Leopold Museum Vienna 2014

Movie

“Fleckfilm” by Marjatta Nieminen-Zein (Finland and Austria). On the occasion of the exhibition in the Galerie auf der Stubenbastei, Vienna 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz: Karl Anton Fleck - Anthropologische Machine. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Felber: Protected workshops: The emergence of the Viennese free jazz avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s , on: viennAvant , accessed on April 27, 2020.
  3. ^ Image of the tombstone on viennatouristguide.at , accessed on April 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b pressetext.com of December 30, 2004: Karl Anton Fleck in the Leopold Museum ; accessed on April 27, 2020
  5. ↑ a b drawingseeing from April 15, 2018: Anthropological machine Karl Anton Fleck ; accessed on April 27, 2020
  6. ↑ galerie-chobot.at: Karl Anton Fleck ; accessed on April 27, 2020
  7. ^ Albertina.at: Dagmar and Manfred Chobot Collection. A donation to the Albertina (PDF) ; accessed on April 27, 2020
  8. ↑ wienerzeitung.at of December 13, 2019: The Albertina shows the new donation: the Chobot Collection ; accessed on April 27, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Fleck, Karl Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1983
Place of death Vienna