Karl Mostböck

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Karl Mostböck (born April 12, 1921 in Grein ; † October 19, 2013 in Steyr ) is an important Austrian representative of informal and scriptural painting.

Short biography

Watercolor on paper, 343 × 275 mm, 2001, example of one of Karl Mostböck's works

After the war, Mostböck worked as a technical graphic designer in the Steyr works , where he implemented technical constructions for advertising. He lived in Steyr from 1949 and was married to Hertha Mostböck (née Sonnleitner).

Even during his school days he showed a special talent for painting and music , but he lacked the opportunity to attend a drawing school or academy , so that he was dependent on himself and inevitably developed a personal independence that was characteristic of his entire artistic career.

From his professional activity he received new impulses, various art volumes, which he carefully and purposefully put together, gave him tips and were an introduction to his development of painting and drawing. By carefully studying the classics of the art of painting, he expanded his skills.

The influence of Zen Buddhist philosophy on his work can be seen from 1964 onwards, and he was impressed by the power that arises from simplicity and silence. The preoccupation with the species brut led to a further development, whereby from 1985 the Informel also flowed into the work.

His works are represented in domestic and foreign museums, including the Albertina Vienna , the Liechtenstein Art Collection in Vaduz, the Leopold Museum Vienna , the Gustav Lübcke Museum in the city of Hamm (Germany), the Upper Austrian State Museum , the Lower Austrian State Museum , the Lentos Museum Linz , in the Musee de Letat in Luxembourg, in the City Museum Bruneck (Italy) or in the Museum Angerlehner in Thalheim near Wels.

Works

Mostböck's works include numerous drawings , oil paintings , copies of venerated models, landscapes , city images , heads , flower watercolors , still lifes , color compositions, informal works, ink pictures, etc. a. m.

In 2014, an association was founded to take care of Mostböck's life's work.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954/55/56/61 participation in the graphic competition in Innsbruck
  • 1966 Autodidact Gallery, Vienna
  • 1967/1970 Galerie TAO, Vienna
  • 1968 Suljak Gallery, Dubrovnik
  • 1975 Sazenhofen Gallery, Grödig
  • 1977/78/80/85/86/87 participation in Art Basel
  • 1978/80/82 Galerie Würthle, Vienna
  • 1978 Radicke Gallery, Bonn
  • 1979 Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg
  • 1979 Welz Gallery, Salzburg
  • 1979 Wölfer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1980 Residenzgalerie, Munich
  • 1981 Kutter Gallery, Luxembourg
  • 1983 Haas Gallery, Vaduz
  • 1986 Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart
  • 1986 Schlossgraben Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1986 Galerie Gabriel, Vienna
  • 1991 Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg
  • 1994 Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz
  • 1998 Upper Austrian Art Association,
  • 2000 Deutsche Bank, Lippstadt
  • 2001 Gallery in the Ragenhaus, Bruneck
  • 2001 Galerie Lang Vienna
  • 2002 Gallery on Domplatz, Münster
  • 2002 Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava
  • 2003 Gallery Steyrdorf and Art Association Steyr
  • 2004 Edo Pognocelli Gallery, Bergamo
  • 2007 Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm
  • 2008 Siegerland Museum of the City of Siegen
  • 2008 Beckum City Museum
  • 2009 Gallery Schloss Parz
  • 2014 Angerlehner Museum
  • 2015 Austrian Embassy, ​​Tokyo
  • 2017 Galerie Artmark, Vienna

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954 O.Ö. Provincial Museum, Young Artists Upper Austria, graphics competition
  • 1958 Salzburg artist house
  • 1962 Salzburg Residence, Biennale of Christian Art
  • 1969 Vienna Secession, Linz in the picture
  • 1977 Washington Art Fair, USA
  • 1980 Galerie Contact, Karl Mostböck - August Stimpfl
  • 1983 Kettering USA, Visual Art Series
  • 1984 Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch
  • 1986 Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart, with German watercolorists
  • 1995 Linz Castle Museum, Fine Arts 1945 - 1955
  • 1996 Upper Austrian Art Association, the color blue
  • 1999 Upper Austrian State Museum Linz, the art of line
  • 2005 Galerie Lukas, Frankfurt / Main, autumn dialogue
  • 2006 Clarisse Praun - Karl Mostböck, Artmark Gallery Vienna
  • 2006 Galerie Lang Vienna, Austrian master drawing
  • 2008 Liebe, Love, Couples from Munch to Warhol, Gustav Lübcke Museum Hamm, BRD
  • 2011 Galerie in der Schmiede, Pasching / Linz, ON - Positions of Silence
  • 2012 Galerie Schloss Parz, FJ Altenburg, K. Mostböck, G. Stifter
  • 2014 Bruneck City Museum, drawings - highlights from South Tyrol and Austria
  • 2017 Galerie Artmark, Vienna, East West - West East

literature

  • Karl Mostböck, "Aquarelle" catalog with a text by Thomas Zaunschirm, Edition Galerie G, Steyr - Linz 1978
  • Karl Mostböck. Upper Austrian State Museum -Francisco-Carolinum, Linz 1984
  • Austrian watercolorists of the present, Verlag W. Maudrich, Vienna-Bern-Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-85175-378-3
  • Karl Mostböck, signs and symbols , texts by Thomas Zaunschirm, Fritz Fröhlich and Karl Mostböck. Edited by Siegfried Karrer in Verlag der Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-901125-03-5
  • Eva Bosch (Ed.): Simultaneously - 140 years of the Upper Austrian Art Association. Upper Austrian Art Association, Linz 1991
  • Karl Mostböck , catalog for the exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Gallery with a text contribution by Peter Assmann, Linz 1994
  • Karl Mostböck - The Steyr is not as wet as the Enns. Works on paper 1960 to 1994. Text by Roman Baumgartner, Verlag Steyrdorf, 1995. Awarded the Austrian Book Trade Prize (most beautiful book in Austria), ISBN 3-902207-03-5
  • The art of the line - possibilities of the graphic. Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz 1999
  • Karl Mostböck, Swing, drawings 1985–1995 with essays by Roman Baumgartner and Gerhard Meckbach, published in Edition Gschwendtner Blätter, 1998
  • Siegfried Wichmann : Karl Mostböck - the painter of the codified form. with foreword by Walter Koschatzky, introduction by Siegfried Wichmann. Spital am Pyrn, 2001
  • Karl Mostböck - body experience, works on paper from five decades. Catalog for the exhibition in the Oberbank-Galerie, Steyr, with an introduction by Martin Hochleitner and a foreword by Ferdinand Reisinger. Verlag & Galerie Steyrdorf Steyr, 2001
  • At the lake - a picture cycle by Karl Mostböck with an introduction by Walter Gegenhuber. Pallas Verlag, Welver-Dinker, 2001
  • Karl Mostböck, Retrospective - Selected Works from 1950–2003 Article by Siegfried Wichmann, Verlag der Galerie Steyrdorf, 2003
  • Siegfried Wichmann among others: Karl Mostböck. Modulations in color and characters. Steyr 2006, ISBN 3-902207-06-X
  • Karl Mostböck Signs and Symbols - Lyrical Abstractions , Lübcke Museum Hamm
  • Carl Aigner , Peter Baum (authors), Johannes Jetschgo , Wilhelm Molterer (eds.): Karl Mostböck. Brandstätter Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85033-466-2
  • Johann Hintersteiner (Ed.): The silent sound of line and color - Karl Mostböck. Exhibition catalog. Grein, 2011.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist Karl Mostböck died at the age of 92
  2. ↑ http://www.mostboeck-archiv.at/leben-werk/
  3. ↑ The association takes care of Mostböck's life's work. In: Upper Austrian news. July 16, 2014, accessed on December 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Mostböck, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Grein
DATE OF DEATH 19th October 2013
Place of death Steyr