Karlheinz Pilcz

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Karlheinz Pilcz (born April 29, 1940 in Vienna ; September 15, 2019 ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist , draftsman , art pedagogue , writer , local historian and legend researcher . He belonged to the circle of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

life and work

Pilcz has lived in Mödling near Vienna since early childhood . From 1958 he studied painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Gerda Matejka-Felden , Josef Dobrowsky or Karl Gunsam and Max Weiler , as well as history , psychology and art history at the University of Vienna . In 1966 and 1968 he completed his studies with the title " Magister artium ".

Since 1961 he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . He was a co-founder of the “Gruppe 64 NÖ”, a group of Lower Austrian artists, which was launched in 1964. From 1967 to 2000 he worked as a teacher of history and art education. Well over a hundred portfolio works and illustrated books with his works have been published. He was the organizer of many exhibitions, especially since he took over as a board member of the Mödlinger Museumsverein. Between 1987 and 1989 he fell ill with cataracts in both eyes , which changed and temporarily limited his artistic work. The disease could be cured by surgery.

Artistically, Pilcz belongs to the circle of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and Viennese post-war Surrealism. He, who describes himself as a “backwoods surrealist”, has developed a weakness for the fairy-tale , the mystical , the fantastic and the frightening , which he can best express in the form of pen and ink drawings , etchings and lithographs . If he does not follow his own visions , he can be inspired by literary models or simply illustrate the originals. His rich and varied book-illustrative oeuvre includes visualizations of the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker , as well as the works of ETA Hoffmann , Herman Melville , Franz Kafka , HC Artmann , Wilhelm Hauff and Erich Fitzbauer , and even of Bible passages . If the reading decoration is also his special love, he can also show oil tempera pictures and works in various other painting techniques. His exhibition history, which includes national and international solo and group exhibitions, began at the age of 19 and gave his pictures notice spaces in prominent proximity to pictures by Salvador Dalí , Max Ernst and René Magritte .

He has also emerged several times as a writer and author of poems , stories, narratives, poetic mystifications , dramolets and essays and treatises on art and cultural history , and from 1983 to 1987 published five volumes with Mödling legends and folk tales .

Pilcz was also known as a connoisseur of blues and old jazz as well as fantastic world literature , values ​​old books and films, and collects film programs and editions of the works of Wilhelm Busch , Karl May and von Brehms Tierleben .

characterization

“In its artistic beginnings, KH Pilcz was part of the then still young tradition of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. He became, as it were, her poetic representative, lyricist of the pen and eraser . Between the suns, moons, stars and stiff clouds, he made birds fall and kites soaring, spire towers or strange plants grow. "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

In 1961 he had his first solo exhibition in the Fuchs Gallery in Vienna. Since then there have been many other solo exhibitions, including a. in Vienna, Mödling, Maria Enzersdorf , Perchtoldsdorf , Baden , Bad Schönau , Schwechat , Braunau am Inn , Munich , Hamburg , Prague and Austin / Texas as well as in the Streitwiesen Castle , in the Gauermann Museum in Scheuchenstein and in the Lower Austrian State Library in St. Pölten .

Participation in exhibitions

Since 1959 there have been exhibitions in the German-speaking countries, the Benelux -Staaten, in Denmark , Sweden , France and Italy . Also extended in Eastern and Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria , Romania , Poland , Czech Republic , Serbia , Croatia , Slovenia , Turkey . In addition, in North Africa , Iran , India , Hong Kong and Japan to overseas, namely Brazil and the USA .

Awards

  • 1960 and 1961: Master School Awards from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • 1962: Anton Romako Prize of the Vienna Künstlerhaus and Golden Füger Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • 1963: Young Art Medal
  • 1966: Recognition award from the City of Vienna's Department of Culture for one of the best advertising posters of the year
  • 1965 and 1968: Grand Prize of the Wiener Künstlerhaus
  • 1969: Promotion award of the state of Lower Austria for fine arts
  • 1980: Decoration of honor for services to culture and art in the city of Mödling
  • 2000: Promotion Prize of the Province of Lower Austria for popular education
  • 2005: Science Award of the State of Lower Austria, Adult Education Category, for the book Always when the cuckoo screamed
  • 2010: Golden badge of honor from the city of Mödling and golden laurel from the Vienna Künstlerhaus

Purchases

literature

  • Erich Fitzbauer: Karlheinz Pilcz. In: Oskar Matulla , Alois Vogel (Ed.): Group 64, Fine Arts in Lower Austria. Faber, Krems 1967, DNB 573592608 .
  • HC Artmann, Peter Baum, Rupert Feuchtmüller, Rainer Pichler, Hannes Schneider: Karlheinz Pilcz - Grotesken. Weilburg Verlag, Baden 1970, OCLC 16576432 .
  • Franz M. Rinner: Karlheinz Pilcz - A life in a square. Mödling / Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-900602-11-5 .
  • Karlheinz Pilcz as an illustrator. Lower Austria State Library, St. Pölten 2005, DNB 974476889 . (online at: data.noe.gv.at )
  • Gerhard Habarta (Ed.): Lexicon of the fantastic artists. 3. Edition. BoD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6307-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karlheincz Pilz died in the NÖN print edition Mödling 39/2019
  2. ↑ Karlheinz Pilcz as an illustrator. ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 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. Exhibition catalog St. Pölten 2005, accessed on December 15, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / data.noe.gv.at
  3. ↑ Erich Fitzbauer: Lemma. In: Gerhard Habarta (Hrsg.): Lexicon of fantastic artists. 3. Edition. BoD , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6307-3 , p.?.
  4. ^ Press archive Danube University Krems , accessed on December 15, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Pilcz, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist, draftsman, art teacher, writer, local historian and legend researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2019