Karl Prantl

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Karl Prantl
Honorary grave of Karl Prantl at the cemetery in Pöttsching
Boundary stone by Karl Prantl (1958) in Pötsching-Mitterberg on the former kuk border between Austria and Hungary.
Karl Prantl am Stein (2008)
Karl Prantl's studio in Vienna's Prater
Insight into Karl Prantl's studio
Studio house in Pöttsching built by Ernst Hiesmayr
Karl Prantl at work

Karl Prantl (born November 5, 1923 in Pöttsching , Burgenland ; † October 8, 2010 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Prantl grew up in his birthplace Pöttsching in an Austro-Hungarian civil servant family. His grandfather was a baker and farmer. From 1930 he attended elementary and middle school . He was a labor service and a soldier in World War II (Greece).

Life as an artist

From 1946 to 1952 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Albert Paris Gütersloh and received a diploma in painting. In 1953 he moved to Vienna, where he joined the artist group Der Kreis . In 1956, Prantl began a six-month study visit to Rome as part of a grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Art. A year later he married the artist Uta Peyrer, with whom he had two children: Katharina Prantl (1959 painter) and Sebastian Prantl (1960 dancer and choreographer).

Prantl was self-taught in the field of sculpture ; after his training as a painter, he turned to this area around 1950. Stone became his preferred material from then on.

In 1958 Prantl moved into his first studio in a vault of the Vienna light rail on the Danube Canal. A year later he worked for the first time in the St. Margarethen quarry on a commissioned work, a large boundary stone (see photo on the right).

There he discovered the inherent laws and aesthetic charms of sculptural work in the open countryside, which differed considerably from studio work; This form of work associated with asceticism is of great importance for his further work, the form and expression of his overall work are shaped by it.

The new experience gave the artist the idea of ​​holding a sculpture symposium together with artist colleagues . In the same year he organized the first symposium of European sculptors in St. Margarethen, Burgenland, to which artists were invited on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the “ Roman quarry ” there for three months, sculptures by eleven artists from eight countries were created and placed there. This symposium is considered to be the birthplace of numerous other stone sculptor symposiums in Europe, America and Asia, which followed in the following years.

Karl Prantl wrote around 1959: “Thinking of us sculptors ourselves, it is so that through the experience of St. Margarethen, through this going out into the open space - into the quarry, into the meadows - we were freed again. It was about this release or free thinking in a very broad sense. For us sculptors, the stone is the means to get this free thinking - to free yourself from many constraints, narrowness and taboos. "

In 1965, Prantl moved into a new studio, a wing of the Vienna World Exhibition (1873), the federal state studio.

After spending several years in America, Prantl moved with his family to Pöttsching in Burgenland in 1978, where he lived and worked until his death. There he had his own studio house built by the architect and friend Ernst Hiesmayr . It is Prantl's merit for having initiated a development with the idea of ​​the Sculptor Symposium and its follow-up projects , the Sculpture Roads, which established art in the natural landscape, immediately visible and tangible for everyone. In Pöttsching, an art store was built according to plans by the architect Carsten Roth to accommodate the stock of images .

Karl Prantl received the Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts in 2008 and is considered a prominent pioneer of abstract sculpture.

He died on October 8, 2010.

to travel

  • 1956: Study visit to Rome / trip to Greece
  • 1967: First trip to the USA
  • 1972: Trip to Romania ( Târgu Jiu )
  • 1974: Trip to Lawrence, Kansas
  • 1977–78: Travel to New York and New Mexico
  • 1980: trip to India ( Patiala )

Awards

Participation in sculptor symposia

Solo exhibitions

  • 1955: Linz (New Gallery of the City of Linz)
  • 1960: Vienna (Young Gallery)
  • 1961: Warsaw (Krzywe Kolo Gallery)
  • 1962: London (New Vision Center Gallery)
  • 1967: New York (Gallery Staempfli) / Munich (Studio UND)
  • 1969: Milan (Galeria Milano)
  • 1971: Aarau (Aarauer Kunsthaus) / Bern (Zähringer Gallery) / Vienna (Künstlerhaus)
  • 1972: Vienna (Austrian Art Center)
  • 1973: Zurich (Verna Gallery)
  • 1977: Baden-Baden (S. Fischer Gallery)
  • 1978: Chicago (Samuel Stein Fine Arts)
  • 1980: Kiel (art gallery)
  • 1981: Frankfurt / M. (Art Association)
  • 1983: Hamburg (Kunsthalle)
  • 1986: Venice (Biennale)
  • 1991: Liechtenstein (Galerie am Lindenplatz) / Nuremberg (Kunsthalle Schaan)
  • 1994: Yorkshire, England (Sculpture Park)
  • 1998: Paris ( Karsten Greve Gallery )
  • 2001: Prague (Czech Museum)
  • 2004: Bologna (Museum Morandi)
  • 2007: Saarlouis, Saarland (LABORATORIUM Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland)
  • 2014/2015: Karl Prantl. , Vienna ( Albertina )

Works

Numerous works by Prantl can be seen in public places or in parks because they were created at sculpture symposia, including in Berlin and Nuremberg. They are often found in the wild for the same reason, such as B. on the street of the sculptures (St. Wendel) , at Steine ​​on the border (Saargau), in Oggelshausen or Richisau , ( Canton Glarus , Switzerland ) "Stein im Richisau"

gallery

literature

  • Karl Prantl - sculptures 1950–1981. Ed .: Frankfurter Kunstverein [catalog for the exhibition. With detailed. Biography, bibliography, exhibition list, art in public space]. Frankfurt: self-published, 1981.
  • The sculpture symposium: the emergence and development of a new form of collective and artistic work. Ed .: Wolfgang Hartmann. Stuttgart 1988. ISBN 3-7757-0263-6
  • Karl Prantl in conversation with Monika Bugs. Ed .: Jo Enzweiler. Saarlouis: LABORATORIUM, 1999. (Interview No. 7)
  • Dittmann, Marlen et al. Lorenz: Karl Prantl. Large stones and sculptor symposia. Saarbrücken: Verl. St. Johann, 2007. 120 p., 52 color illus. u. 67 b / w illus. ISBN 3-938070-12-9
  • Alfred Weidinger (Ed.): We want to set standards - 50 years of the St. Margarethen Sculpture Symposium . Weitra: Verl. F. Lit., Kunst u. Musikalien, 2009. 156 p., Numerous. Fig.ISBN 978-3-900000-46-2

Individual evidence

  1. Sculptor Karl Prantl: Master of the Stones  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / admin.bvz.at  
  2. ^ Karl Prantl: Stone meditation. June 3 to July 3, 1983 . Ed .: Hamburger Kunsthalle .
  3. The Sculptor Symposium (1988)
  4. Kunstspeicher Prantl on the homepage of the Carsten Roth architects' office
  5. Page of the museum on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from June 6, 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 June 3, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.albertina.at
  6. Gasthaus Richisau - Culture Path. Retrieved on October 19, 2017 (Swiss Standard German).

Web links

Commons : Karl Prantl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files