Kassian Erhart

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Kassian Erhart

Kassian Erhart (* 1948 in Fließ , Tyrol ; † December 25, 2018 in Sistrans , Tyrol) was an Austrian sculptor and sound artist .

Live and act

Erhart was born the son of a mountain farmer in Piller (on the Pillerhöhe between Fliess and Wenns ) in Tyrol. After completing compulsory school, he worked as a mountain farmer on his parents' farm until 1990. In addition, he attended the Salzburg Summer Academy several times from 1976 to 1984 (courses with Francesco Somaini , Oreste Dequel, Josef Zenzmaier and others), and from 1978 to 1983 the "International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Innsbruck" (at that time courses with Max Weiler , Giselbert Hoke among others).

From 1978 he also worked as a teacher for sculpture and graphics at the technical school for arts and crafts and design Elbigenalp and worked there until 1986, most recently as director of the then discontinued free sculpture course;

In 1986 he initiated the International Sculpture Symposium Sculpture Field Fuchsmoos in Piller near Fliess , which he organized and directed until 2005. Between 1990 and 1994 he worked as a course instructor for sculpture and life drawing at what was then the "Summer Academy for Fine Arts" in Hohenems .

In 1991 he finally became self-employed as a freelance artist and established his studio directly on the site of the local sculpture field Fuchsmoos. With this and with the further organization / participation in the Fuchsmoos Sculpture Field, he finally achieved his breakthrough as an internationally recognized sculptor and sound artist , whose sound installations and sound sculptures had gained international importance since 1995 (at that time at the Fuchsmoos Sculpture Field together with the musician Günther Zechberger and others) .

From 2008 he also transferred his knowledge to the establishment and organization of the “International Stone Carving Symposium Pitztal”.

His works are in many private and public collections, such as the Federal Art Collection , the Art Collection of the State of Tyrol, the Tyrolean State Museum "Joanneum", the Römmerquelle collection, the collection of the Diocese of Innsbruck , the art collection of the St. Vinzenz Zams Hospital , the art collection the Hollenstein Lustenau Gallery and many others.

Erhart lived and worked with his companion, the writer Lina Hofstädter in Piller between Fliess and Wenns , and in Sistrans near Innsbruck .

Works

  • On the trapeze (woodcut, 1991)

  • Stone woman (sculpture, 1996)

  • Braille (lyric sculpture)

  • Hanging stone (installation, 1998)

  • Untitled (sculpture, 2008)

  • Sisyphus (sculpture, 2011)

  • Children's figures (installation, 2012)

  • Water stones (2 installation, 2016)

Sculptor and graphic artist

As a sculptor, Kassian Erhart created on the one hand many sculptures and installations, which were created in stone or with combined materials as outdoor works of art and in various sculpture fields. Sculpture parks and sculpture paths have been set up (see Figs. 2 to 8 above).

He also worked in the field of Christian art . From him u. a. the altar table and a crucifixion group in the Mariahilf Chapel near Unterfaggen (municipality of Faggen , Tyrol) and figures of saints in the St. Vincent Hospital in Zams . As a painter and graphic artist, on the other hand, he created woodcuts and lithographs, for example as book illustrations in the poetry volume Kopf circus by the writer Lina Hofstädter (see Fig. 1).

As a sound artist

Erhart created “sound sculptures” and “sound installations” that were developed in cooperation with composers and musicians and performed in various concerts.

"Steinklang" (lithophony)

From 1995 Kassian Erhart created a number of stone sculptures as sound art , which various composers used as the basis for compositions and were performed again and again:

  • See-Hear-Touch (in cooperation with Günther Zechberger and Ferdinand Köck); Performances 1995 & 1996 Sculpture Field Fuchsmoos Piller near Fließ (Fig. 9);
  • Lithophony (in cooperation with Günther Zechberger images 10 to 13). Performances 1998–2008: 1998 Sculpture Field Fuchsmoos Piller near Fliess; 2001 & 2002 performances by “Ticom; Tyrolean Ensemble for New Music “: a) 2001 Jesuit Church, premiere days Innsbruck, b) 2002 Schwaz ; 2002 Salzburg Music Festival: Orchestra House of the Mozarteum (Salzburg); 2003 Cres (Croatia); 2004 Schwaz; 2005-2006 Tulln ; 2007 sound improvisations: Innsbruck; 2008 stone carving symposium Mandarfen (Pitztal);
  • Rondeau (in cooperation with Günther Zechberger): Performance: 2002 Innsbruck;
  • Lithophonie 2 (in cooperation with Günther Zechberger and Martin Parker ): Performances: 2002 Sculpture Field Fuchsmoos Piller near Fliess; 2003 ORF Kulturhaus Innsbruck;
  • Feel the voices of the stones (in cooperation with Gunter Schneider ): Performances: 004 Sculpture Field Fuchsmoos Piller near Fliess; in addition in 2006 Tulln, Weitra & Gars am Kamp ;
  • Motion singing bowls (in cooperation with Gunter Schneider and Christof Dienz ): Shows: 2004 Kulturzeit Reutte , 2006 Klangspuren Schwaz; 2010 Transart Bozen & Alter Schlachthof Wels ;
  • Stein.Klang.Schicht (in cooperation with Gunter Schneider and others): Performance: 2012 Sculpture Field Fuchsmoos Piller near Fließ

  • Sound sculpture 1995

  • Sound sculpture Echo 1998

  • Sound sculpture trombone 1998

  • Lithophone 1998

  • Stone xylophone 2001

  • Tonholz 2006

  • Sound installation larch 2009

  • Hazel spruce 2012

"Holzklang" (xylophony)

Since 2004 Kassian Erhart has also been intensively concerned with the sound of wood, namely with the special tonewood of the so-called " hazel spruce ":

  • 2004 Kassian Erhart was the founder and is until today (2016) chairman of the association "Forum Haselfichte" and editor of the brochure "Haselfichte" ;
  • 2005 Exhibition and sound performance, Sculpture-Sound on and with wooden sculptures, in the Fuchsmoos sculpture field , Piller bei Fließ ;
  • 2006 Kassian Erhart exhibited sound sculptures made of wood in the FeuerWerk gallery, Holz Binder Fügen (Tyrol), including their use by Siggi & Juliana Haider (Fig. 14); these were also exhibited and recorded at Kulturzeit Reutte 2006;
  • 2009 First wood sculptor symposium Working with tonewood - sound bodies are created from Tyrolean hazel spruce , Seefeld (Tyrol) (Fig. 15);
  • In 2011, at the request of Kassian Erhart, knowledge and handling of the hazel spruce as tonewood were included in the UNESCO list of intangible world cultural heritage .;
  • 2012 Second wood sculptor symposium Seefeld Sound bodies made of hazel spruce wood , participation, exhibition and performance by Simon Jeller & Erika Santek-Pircher;
  • 2016 Concert with sound art works from Haselfichten wood (with the composer Gerald Amann, the sculptor Alois Lindenbauer and others), Symposium Haselfichten. Wood and its sounds , Klostertal Museum, Wald am Arlberg .

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • 1981–1983 Small Sculpture Prize from the Innsbruck Summer Academy (International Summer Academy for Fine Arts and Theater Innsbruck, today: “art didactica”);
  • 1989 Römerquelle purchase price , 9th Römerquelle art competition ;
  • 1999: Art Prize of the Diocese of Innsbruck (Topic: "Times of turning point: Apocalypse now?");
  • 1999: Pilgram Prize for Stone Sculpture (Prize of the "Association of Austrian Natural Stone Works for Architecture and Natural Stone" for stone sculptures in public spaces);
  • 2008: Competition wood (Prize of the Montafon Art Forum for wood sculpture);

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1991 Symposium "Segments" in the Rhomberg quarry near Hohenems , participation and permanent exhibition in the city of Hohenems (group exhibition);
  • 1992 woodcuts, paintings and sculptures , Hollenstein Gallery, Lustenau (group exhibition);
  • 1994 drawing and plastic implementation , Kulturkreis Hohenems (personal);
  • 1996 International sculpture symposium of the “Art Forum Salvesen” , Tarrenz in Tirol (group exhibition);
  • 1998 International Exhibition of Wood Sculptures , Archangelsk Museum of Local Lore (State Museum of Folk Art), Archangelsk , Russia (group exhibition);
  • 1999 wood carving , Tyrol Chamber of Commerce , Innsbruck (group exhibition);
  • 1999 Apocalypse-now (exhibition for the art prize of the Diocese of Innsbruck), Wilten Abbey near Innsbruck (group exhibition);
  • 1999 Kassian Erhart: Sculptures , Gallery in der Lände, Kressbronn am Bodensee (personal);
  • 1999 sculptures and woodcuts , Tarrenz Museum Gallery (personal);
  • 2000 Tirol.2000 (Tyrolean art purchases of the Arts Division of the Austrian. Federal Chancellery ), University of Innsbruck , Inst. F. Art history (group exhibition);
  • 2002 Sculpture Symposium Rettenschöss , participation and exhibition (group exhibition);
  • 2003 Art in Nature: Symposium am Wachtberg , participation and exhibition in Gars am Kamp (group exhibition);
  • 2004 Ton-Stein: Helene Keller / Kassian Erhart , Imst City Gallery (personal);
  • 2006 sound wood sculptures , Gallery fireworks Add in Tirol (group exhibition);
  • 2008 Adelheid Schmid-Nuss. Files - Kassian Erhart. Sculptures , Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck (personal);
  • 2008 Krastal sculpture symposium 2008 , participation and exhibition (group exhibition);
  • 2011 bronze sculptures and wooden objects: Kassian Erhart , Kunstforum Troadkastn, Kramsach (Tyrol) (personal);
  • 2011 Stones without Borders , international sculpture symposium in Bernau near Berlin (participation and group exhibition);
  • 2012 European Art Camp: Power and Responsibility , Espenau ( Kassel district ) (participation and group exhibition);
  • 2013 Question Mark , University of Graz , University Center Theology (group exhibition);
  • 2016 hazel trees. Wood and its sounds , symposium and exhibition, Klostertal Museum, Wald am Alberg (group exhibition).

Book publications

  • Head circus. Lina Hofstädter and Kassian Erhart, art book with carved wooden cover, original color woodcuts and text in hand photo screen printing, signed edition of 17, self-published in 1987
  • Head circus. Satires, with woodcuts by Kassian Erhart, Hecht Verlag, Hard 1991, ISBN 3-85430-145-6 .
  • Lina Hofstädter : memories of nature , poetry. With wood prints by Kassian Erhart. TAK, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-900888-65-7 .

Sources and web links

Commons : Kassian Erhart  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Oreste Dequel , consulted December 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Information about the Innsbruck Summer Academy today , requested on December 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ = expiring since 1983 (at that time public rights were granted to the Elbigenalp technical school, as well as the end of the previous training courses / years, which had to be completed by 1986).
  4. ↑ Information on the stone sculptor symposium Pitztal , requested December 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Information about art in the St. Vinzenz Hospital, Zams , requested December 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ Information on the 1995 performance , requested on December 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ Pictures of the construction of the sound bodies , requested December 21, 2016.
  8. ↑ Information on the Tyrolean Ensemble for New Music ticom , requested on December 20, 2016.
  9. ↑ Information about the musician Martin Parker , requested December 21, 2016.
  10. ↑ Video for the performance "Lithophonie 2" , requested December 21, 2016.
  11. ^ Biography of Gunter Schneider
  12. ↑ Video "tracking stones' voices" (2012), also released on ORF CD , requested December 21, 2016.
  13. ↑ Booklet of CD QADRAT: SCH Stubenmusic , which contains recordings of this music , requested December 21, 2016.
  14. ↑ Video of the performance by Ingrid Pechtl , accessed December 21, 2016.
  15. ↑ Information on the "Haselfichte" association , requested on December 20, 2016.
  16. ↑ Information on the “Hazelfichte” brochure , requested on December 20, 2016.
  17. ↑ Information about the FeuerWerk gallery and the “Tonewood Sculptures” exhibition , requested on December 21, 2016.
  18. ↑ The hazel spruce as an intangible world cultural heritage , queried December 21, 2016.
  19. ↑ Wood Sculptor Symposium Seefeld 2013: Review , queried December 21, 2016.
  20. ↑ Information about the composer ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 December 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikdokumentation-vorarlberg.at
  21. ↑ Information about the event ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museumsverein-klostertal.at
  22. ↑ Information about the Innsbruck Summer Academy today , requested on December 19, 2016.
  23. ↑ Link to the DNB entry for the publication on the 9th Römerquelle art competition , requested on December 19, 2016.
  24. ↑ Link to the DNB entry of the publication on the 2nd Art Prize of the Diocese of Innsbruck , requested on December 19, 2016.
  25. ↑ Information on the Pilgram Prize using the 2012 prize as an example , requested on December 19, 2016.
  26. ↑ Information on the Montafon Art Forum , requested on December 19, 2016.
  27. ↑ Web presence of the Art Forum Salvesen , accessed December 19, 2016.
  28. ↑ Information on the Archangelsk Museum , requested on December 19, 2016.
  29. ↑ Information on Galerie Lände , requested on December 19, 2016.
  30. ^ Exhibition overview of the Imst City Gallery , requested December 21, 2016.
  31. ↑ Information about the exhibition , requested on December 19, 2016.
  32. ↑ Information about the exhibition in the Galerie Nothburge , requested on December 21, 2016.
  33. ^ Report on the Kassian Erhart exhibition in Kramsach , requested on December 19, 2016.
  34. ↑ Report on the 2011 symposium , requested on December 21, 2016.
  35. ↑ Report on Eurarca 2012 , requested on December 21, 2016.
  36. ↑ Description of the TV program including the episode with the sculptures Kassian Erhart , requested December 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Erhart, Kassian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and sound artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fliess , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2018
Place of death Sistrans , Tyrol