Karl Kaltenbacher

Performance "Hose Loop 1976" with Beni Altmüller

Karl Charles Kaltenbacher (* 1950 in Steyr ) is an Austrian painter , graphic artist , sculptor , choreographer and author .

Live and act

The artist, who was born in Steyr, spent part of his childhood in Australia from 1954 to 1962 . From 1971 to 1977 he studied at the University of Design in Linz with Alfons Ortner and Helmuth Gsöllpointner and received his diploma with distinction.

Since 1972 he has made more than 400 cultural expressions in the form of exhibitions, performances, dance choreographies, lectures, publications and works in public and private institutions. He spent some time in the Egon Hofmann House and is a member of the MAERZ artists' association .

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

• 1977: "forum metal"
• 2011: The beauty of the gesture (or: about the powerfully beautiful). A project by Charles Kaltenbacher and Peter Sommerauer in the artists' association MAERZ
• 2013: "WEGMARKEN" insight MAERZ, large room

poetics

• 2002: Charles Kaltenbacher: All pictures go upright * The basis is a sphere

performance

• 1998: "ROCK'N ROLL SCULPTURE" DANCE PERFORMANCE BY CHARLES KALTENBACHER AT WUK (VIENNA) -1998
• 1993: "Performance: Relicts & Sediments" Open House of Culture Upper Austria

Public collections

• The art collection of the province of Upper Austria

Publications

• with Heinz Baumüller : Baumüller / Kaltenbacher. past.present.future book design: Andrea Hofinger / Dennis de Kort. "Baumüller / Kaltenbacher. Past.present.future" 2007 Artbook Verlag, ISBN 978-3-9502189-5-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charles Kaltenbacher, in: Web presence of the Art Collection of the State of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from May 28, 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. , accessed on May 26, 2013 
2. ^ Karl C. Kaltenbacher, in: Basis-wien web presence
3. ↑ forum stahl, forum metal and forum design | City in happiness
4. ↑ The beauty of the gesture (or: about the powerful) Robert Hartmann / Hans Backes, Charles Kaltenbacher, Kurt Lackner, Markus Proschek, Peter Sommerauer
5. ↑ Wegmarken , Galerie MAERZ (artists' association) , March 2013
6. ↑ Why the fish learned to fly. Cultural evolution: a poetics of gravitation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ [1] Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, December 1993 Performance: Relicts & Sediments
8. ↑ Charles Kaltenbacher (Krummau, January-March 2012) ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 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.